Both Mahindra and Mitsubishi gained a contract with willys overland in 1953 for CJ3B in japan they call it J3 J4 etc and in india they call it CJ3B ...Mitsubishi manufactured 3B design jeeps till 1997 and mahindra continued those design till 2010.Even Thar is based on American CJ5 civilian variant of M38A1..:)