is it true that Jeep got its name because its got just enough essential parts?

Answer 1

Yes its true.

Answer 2

To be perfectly honest, no one knows for sure. Forget what others copy and paste from the vastly incorrect Wikipedia online crap. Jeep was not a registered name unitl 1946. Many feel that Jeep came from GP or general purpose, WRONG. The official US Army name for the vehicle is: Vehicle, tactical truck, 1/4 ton.
Many feel it was from the Popeye cartoon caracter Eugene the Jeep who could go anywhere and do just about anything. Eisenhower, Churchill, and Patton all agree that the Willy's and Ford produced Jeep's was one of the keys to winning World War Two.
The Bantam Corp. produced the first prototype. The US Army was looking for a small recon vehicle that could be manuverable over just about any terrian. Unfortunatley for Bantam( the only company to produce a prototype from over 20 car makers at the time), was not allowed to build the now famous Jeep. Instead it went to Willy's-Overland(who sold the Jeep Corp, to AMC in 1970) and Ford Motor Company. The only way to distingush which is which is to look at the bolt heads and locate the famous Ford script emblem on every Ford built Jeep.
Jeep started the Four Wheel Drive industry. Soldiers returning from war wanted the little things to do what they did in war. Go anywhere anytime. So the CJ-1 was born. CJ stands for Civilan Jeep. The CJ-2 and 3 were made to implement farming tools. The elusive CJ-10 is the most rare here in the USA. It was made for export. But some found there way back home. Jeep has changed much over the years, but for the most part until Chrysler made the TJ in 1996, most all Jeep parts were interchangeable with each other.

Answer 3

No, actually the name jeep came from the military Willy's GP (General Purpose) vehicle in the 1940's, and the name later became Jeep. And if you look at a jeep they don't just have essential parts, they have become a luxury SUV.

Answer 4

General Purpose = GP (GeePee)....... which became Jeep

The origin of the term "jeep"

There are many stories about where the word "jeep" came from, how it was coined. These, although they make for interesting and memorable stories, are not quite accurate.

* Probably the most popular notion has it that the vehicle bore the designation "GP" (for "General Purpose"), which was phonetically slurred into the word jeep. R. Lee Ermey, on his television series Mail Call, disputes this, saying that the vehicle was designed for specific duties, was never referred to as "General Purpose," and that the name may have been derived from Ford's nomenclature referring to the vehicle as GP (G for government-use, and P to designate its 80-inch-wheelbase). "General purpose" does appear in connection with the vehicle in the WW2 TM 9-803 manual, which describes the vehicle as "... a general purpose, personnel, or cargo carrier especially adaptable for reconnaissance or command, and designated as ¼-ton 4x4 Truck", and the vehicle is designated a "GP" in TM 9-2800, Standard Military Motor Vehicles, 1 September 1943, but whether the average jeep-driving GI would have been familiar with either of these manuals is open to debate.

This version of the story may be complicated by the name of another series of vehicles with the GP designation. The Electro-Motive Division of General Motors, a maker of railroad locomotives, introduced its "General Purpose" line in 1949, using the GP tag. These locomotives are commonly referred to as Geeps, pronounced the same way as "Jeep".

* Many, including Ermey, claim that the likelier origin refers to the character Eugene the Jeep in the Thimble Theater (Popeye) comic strip. Eugene the Jeep was dog-like and could walk through walls and ceilings, climb trees, fly, and just about go anywhere it wanted; it is thought that soldiers at the time were so impressed with the new vehicle's versatility that they informally named it after the character. The character "Eugene the Jeep" was created in 1936.

Answer 5

I have heard that the soldiers in world war 2 called a jeep due to a character that use to be in Popeye cartoons named jeepy that could go anywhere and do anything. so they related that to there jeeps and just dropped the "y".

Answer 6

no , it's from the military days of WW2 when they were called GP's or General Purpose. GP got changed to jeep.

Answer 7

No, it actually is an acronym for Just Empty Every Pocket.

In other words, once you buy one, you'll want a lift, then tires, then skid plates, then a bigger lift, then....

Answer 8

nope ..it got its name from ..general purpose vehicle ..gee pee ..honest