Willys Jeep Station Wagon was born from the hands of the designer Brooks Stevens strokes , and was first introduced in 1946. This Jeep has a long career span and the production was completed in 1965 for production in America . Its role was replaced by SJ - Series Jeep Wagoneer .

Willys Station Wagon Jeep product to be one of the most successful and influential post- World War II . His success can not be separated from the post-war needs to be a vehicle that can roam up remote areas .


Based on historical records, Jeep Willys Station Wagon is not only emerged as a pioneer of luxury passenger 4x4 vehicles only. But first comes as a commercial vehicle whose entire body is made of a metal plate. The use of body iron is considered a breakthrough that is quite brilliant at the time, when nearly all passenger vehicles still rely on wood as a material body.

Body material of the metal plate is more efficient in mass production, the assembly is faster, more robust, more easily maintained and more secure than the timber body. Through this body, Willys Station Wagon others to exert influence in the automotive industry. By making the body as a standard for other vehicles.

Willys flapping his business one way joint venture, license or sell its products sold in knock-down kits. Willys Station Wagon has a unique body shape with the characteristic beamed body complete with flow lines.

Mitsubishi recorded as license user-owned Willys body since the 1950s, but the Willys Station Wagon body characteristics are not lost from the body Mitsubishi Jeep Station Wagon. While other stories come from Brazil, between Willys and Ford signed a cooperation agreement to a joint venture in the 1950s. The result lends body Willys Station Wagonnya as a pillar for Ford Rural figure. Interestingly, this figure Ford Rural Willys then more popular than itself. Rural finally stopped being produced in 1977.

A total of 300,000 units of Willys Station Wagon has been produced from the beginning to the end. But keep in mind , that figure is a matter of production Willys Overland , not from manufacturers outside the United States . The existing number is definitely more than that number, because outside the United States , through Industrias Kaiser Argentina ( IKA ) , Willys keep producing it until 1971. But then came IKA Estanciera as rebrand the product of Willys manufactured until 1981 .

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