Willys Jeep: the car that helped win a war | Top Gear RETROspective

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As Jeep turns 80, we pit its original off-road hero against its latest. While the fundamental mechanicals of an off-roader haven’t changed much over the years - rugged looks, grippy tyres, four-wheel drive - some things most definitely have. But the Jeep was the first. So strap yourself in and don your war paint as Top Gear Magazine’s Jack Rix gives you the history of an icon while throwing it about in a load of mud
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@EJFXxx 2 года назад

a group of soldiers can disassemble and reassemble a Willys Jeep in less than 3 minutes

@napalmhotdog4365 2 года назад

Not all soldiers. I’m one, and the only way I could think of to disassemble it that quickly, would be to hit it with a Javelin

@mauricio7918349 2 года назад

@@napalmhotdog4365 he was on crack when he wrote that post!. :v

@Trump985 2 года назад

Yea if they don’t put in any bolts or have any brakes. Still a great parade trick though.

@justonemori Год назад

@@Trump985 who needs coolant to drive 20 feet?

@markapterman49 2 года назад

What a shame that you could not use a real WW2 jeep in your you tube video.The jeep you are using is a post WW2 jeep and is not the same Model as a 1941 - 1945 jeep. It puzzles me as there's thousands of real WW2 jeeps still out there.

@vancity2349 2 года назад

Love the original Willys Jeep, a real Icon thats for sure. I learned to drive manual on a 44. When bought it was a 6 volt system.

@Gelathagath 2 года назад

“Looks like the one before that, and before that, and before that” *proceeds to show three iterations/ refreshes of the same model* (JK) You need to show generations, not facelifts.

@Troubleshooter125 2 года назад

A tribute of this kind is badly overdue. I'm pleased that Top Gear UK has seen fit to finally deal with that lack of notice of the history of the Willy's Jeep and its impact on automotive history during and after World War II. Thanks a LOT, guys!

@jdwyerofive2798 2 года назад

The evolution of a legend…

@hanzguy189 2 года назад

We have a willys jeep and i wanna drive it someday.. And the willys jeep actually looks coller than the wrangler for me

@calv1nandh0bbes Год назад

The jeep you’ve used is an M38a1, not an original WW2 Willy’s MB or Ford GPW, it’s not like you couldn’t have gotten one of them either.

@mkp1214 2 года назад

I like how they showed 3 jeeps from the same generation as different jeeps

@ThunderBassistJay 2 года назад

Wow! Nice to see this Willys in action. I drove one in the early 80's, on road and off road. Off road it was one of a kind.

@memonk11 2 года назад

But how fast is it on the Nurburg ring?

@Shlnigamii 2 года назад

Over here in Brazil we have a ton of Willy’s in Perfect conditions!!

@vandecar15 2 года назад

Cool! Always wanted one.

@brennanvilcheck9469 Год назад

Welp, if I want one I know where to go searching

@whitewalker9622 2 года назад

Nice ep, please continue where you left it ♥️

@raihanmariojacobus7554 2 года назад

My dad own one of the Willys Jeep, but now it just sit on our garage for years now

@healthyamerican 2 года назад

its waiting for you to revive it

@kilohotel6750 2 года назад

That’s not a Wrangler, that’s a soccer mom Jeep. Wranglers are two doors!

@AtheistOrphan 2 года назад

Well that’s what Jeep U.K are calling it on their website. Perhaps you should take it up with them, particularly if they’re putting the wrong badges on their cars, as clearly shown at 0:34. Scandalous!

@MudhaffarAdhwa 2 года назад

Land rover, Land cruiser, patrol, all inspired by the jeep.

@healthyamerican 2 года назад

add bronco and mahindra to the list

@G2Merica 2 года назад

Do one on the most famous engine ever: small block Chevy

@cowx73pw 2 года назад

It also started the Toyota landcruiser

@axem.8338 2 года назад

Beautifully made.

@bruns-o-tron 2 года назад

ALMOST every Jeep in the CJ / XJ / ZJ series had round headlights, except the first-generation Wranglers in the 1980s,

@pnw.yfz350 2 года назад

The 80s and 90s Cherokees and Grand Cherokees into the 2000’s only every came with square headlights. Even some SJs and J Series trucks had square headlights.

@shankarbalan3813 2 года назад

There’s Only One….no doubt about it. But that M38 which you’re carting about on the trailer is not the WW2 Jeep that was the original ancestor to the present day Jeep.

@oskartomaszmarmol-infante919 2 года назад

♠️♥️

@janverzee9423 2 года назад

If it’s built in Holland, it’s a Nekaf. The Dutch army used them in the 50’s ans 60’s…

@louis8869 2 года назад

So judging by that comparison, the old jeep keeps up to the new jeep... and my golf tdi too apparently?

@vrrrrrr-uwu 2 года назад

@Klipschrf35 2 года назад

Big difference is one lasted 80 years and still runs, other won't last five years without major work

@Drummin003 2 года назад

Same thing with a Model-T. You can still pull them out after 80 years of being parked and get it up and running again as long as the engine/transmission isn't locked up. Everything was built to a higher standard back then, than anything produced within the last 50 years could ever hope to be.

@vcom2327 10 месяцев назад

Funny that you were not driving a Willys WWII Jeep while describing it

@cryptosmarties6507 2 года назад

I am searching for the old top gear, and RU-vid gives me this shit

@RustyTriumphs 2 года назад

He is driving an M38 the Jeep not used in WW2, but there are plenty of original Willys MB jeeps around (and Ford GPW's). They could of at least got an original for this video😕

@tristantopambudi3186 2 года назад

I am pretty sure that wasn't Willy's Jeep Look more like CJ5 to me

@wyattnyfeler7270 2 года назад

It’s a Willy’s m38 also Willy’s made the cj5 for several years until being bought by amc

@panji7793 2 года назад

That become a my government(high rank person) vehicles (the new one)and still need a Suzuki samurai or land cruiser LC 80 for towing Or rescue them

@AsitShouldBe 2 года назад

you are forgetting the toyota land cruiser series..

@roberthiggins6401 2 года назад

You'll have to put the original Jeep and land rover in a scrap on that course and the two new ones as well?

@كريمخضير-ع1ن 2 года назад

how can l watch you'r programme on tv

@theJellyjoker 2 года назад

The thing I don't like about the new Jeeps is the thing I don't like about all modern cars, all the electronic garbage.

@shadfallfan 2 года назад

That is the single worst strap down of any vehicle I've ever seen.

@classicgunstoday1972 8 месяцев назад

When the EMP hits and you need to go into the thick underbrush of wooded areas, which one do you think will come out on top? Super expensive super computerized technical wide spaced modern wrangler or the plain jane simple old Willys Jeep that was assembled quickly by ordinary laymen?

@branon6565 2 года назад

I own a 58 Willys Cj5, a 44 Ford GP, and an 85 AMC Cj7, grew up riding in and learned how to drive (at age 11) in my Dad's 70 Kaiser Cj5 Renegade....I love Jeeps, I'll never not own one....

@oskartomaszmarmol-infante919 2 года назад

🚧

@shawnriddle3018 3 месяца назад

Before willys Dodge was the first vehicle from horseback used in the army. Before Willys Dodge trucks were serving as 4x4's in 1932 with trucks to supply the lines. Before jeep was called jeep in 1963. Solders used the name to describe the Dodge 3/4 ton command cars and 1/4 ton willys.Jeep was nick name.

@iamsteverogersakacapamerica041 7 месяцев назад

The vintage jeep in the video is an m38 which is the jeep from the Korean War not from ww2 the ww2 jeeps were the Willy’s mb and the ford gpw and In the Vietnam war the main 4x4 1/4 ton truck was not a jeep but was the m151a1 nicknamed the mutt which was made by ford for the U.S. military during the Vietnam war.

@lonestranger 2 года назад

It's pronounced WILL-iss, not will-eez. If one of the points of this video is education, the details should be accurate.

@MrNobbyify 2 года назад

Willys is pronounced "willys".

@grantchallinor5263 2 года назад

This is Jack Rix presenting this video - this is the same person who, at the video launch of the new Land Rover Defender in Namibia last year stated: "Africa - what a country!" (the video was removed from RU-vid shortly afterwards, after various "gaffs" had been removed, then reposted.....). Words like "educational" and "accuracy" rarely appear in the same sentence as Jack Rix's name......

@DanMosqueda 2 года назад

You beat me to it!

@cyjan3k823 2 года назад

This is top gear, not educational Videos. It is made for entertainment and they dont act like its not

@healthyamerican 2 года назад

you listened to jeep snobs who are also misinformed. the only time it was pronounced willis was after kaiser bought the company. before and after kaiser it was willeez....as any normal person would pronounce willys as willeez. but jeep snobs who watch too many youtube videos will call it willis and are the first to correct others

@Alladin-n5j 5 месяцев назад

There's plenty of Willys Jeeps around , Aussie Alby Mangels found lots on a South Pacific island that had been abandoned at the end of WW2 in the Japanese theatre along with heavy trucks and hundreds of 44 gallon drums full of diesel

@ThirdDegreeWitchExplores Год назад

Isn’t that an M38 ? , that wasn’t made till the early 50s . So hardly WW2 ,

@cheesusslice7342 2 года назад

That's not a World War II jeep I knew as soon as I saw the grill because there are only seven grill slats not nine like the ww2 ones

@ih302 2 года назад

I drove a '55 once, an analog experience for sure.

@akkhan_mafios 2 года назад

why he is presenting as a driver when it can be seen clearly he is not a pro driver...so please top gear stop being those cheap kind of organisation and find someone who can really drive and know what to say,, thanks

@Ramesh-ub9mg 2 года назад

JEEP LOGO

@fru1tsalad16 2 года назад

Wow!

@justinkeckhaver8199 8 месяцев назад

And Land Rover beats Jeep hands down in unreliability. Good for them.

@ryan49805 2 года назад

Salute to all our veterans both here in the USA (Merica), UK, and France. Hope to god we won’t ever see a ww3.

@DRACOFURY 10 месяцев назад

But who winning now Rovers has a history or maintenance issues

@Offensivebeast 2 года назад

As a Land Rover enthusiast and series 2 owner I’m quite happy the Jeep was made because without it I’d be lost for interest.

@deadlysharts7742 Год назад

Nobody watches this show anymore. The grand tour is on amazon folks

@umairmehmood902 Год назад

Plz some one can tell me what is this jeep model name ...because i have this jeep in my college

@MiguelEduardoVenegasMonroy Год назад

es por eso que tengo un willy de 1958 con motor de 1953

@bradfordpayne1657 2 года назад

The Willy’s Jeep that he was driving is a civilian model

@restore_flatfender8867 2 года назад

He misidentified the Jeep he was driving as an M-38. (Nope, there's one in my garage). He's driving an M-38A1. Why do a video and use a much different car from the 1950s when there's lots of the real thing around?

@nicolasmacchiavello8201 2 года назад

I was going to say the same, that jeep is an M38A1 not the M38. I have one too from 1952. Beautiful jeep

@WBizarre 2 года назад

0:05 shows 3 JK's "They all look the same!"

@fraserhenderson7839 2 года назад

a triumph of continuity...

@pagerg3432 Год назад

Kaiser Willys Jeep CJ2A Is my favorite

@laracroft938 2 года назад

Land rover isn’t even the most successful Jeep inspired vehicle. It's the land cruiser.

@healthyamerican 2 года назад

what about mahindra?

@mahir6239 2 года назад

Land cruiser is shit

@rakshithd920 2 года назад

Jeep sucks, I buy thar instead of this.

@caprise-music6722 2 года назад

Epic! Great vid

@georgeedwards8156 Год назад

Not the original that wasn’t in the war not a Willys

@edwindelfin7894 2 года назад

Here in the philippines the wwii army jeeps was converted/modified to mass transport public transport .... Became jeepneys, the main and most popular land vehicle in the philippines

@veifow 2 года назад

Forza "glitch" moment

@AtheistOrphan 2 года назад

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@veifow 2 года назад

@@AtheistOrphan I know

@yeluripati 2 года назад

Anywhere in the world, 4x4 means it is jeep and jeep only. Host became ww2 soldier by putting helmet and driving the jeep😇

@piyushbansal4433 Год назад

This is a beautiful history lesson and very beautifully told by Top Gear. Time and again American ingenuity and leadership shows up in the forms of these great innovative and revolutionary products - Jeep Wrangler - that are great by themselves, and also inspire other nations to build their line of products. How amazing it is that all the American car manufacturers got a chance to submit their designs in a fair manner for an enticing project like this, and the mighty Ford even after losing the design bid, took it in stride and helped the American government build the jeeps. Amazing! Respect to Ford for showing camaraderie and supporting the American government's plans. And respect to the American government for selecting designs based on merit, instead of just giving the contract away to a popular car-maker of the time, and potentially ending up with a less effective vehicle.

@sayerber7817 2 года назад

Check out Epic Willys Adventure! Where a group of people take old Willys Jeeps that look like they could fall apart cross country.

@khal6400 2 года назад

"after a bit of fiddling, willys came to attention" brilliant writing 😂

@isaac7046 2 года назад

fh5 players be like:

@carringtonmangwroi3241 2 года назад

Is it me or his coming the Richard hammond of the current top gear.its only time soon we need him on prime time telec

@majid_k1723 2 года назад

amazing

@WeiRdThoughts-h6u Год назад

Its not a car it’s jeep

@wouterbours1963 2 года назад

Parts of video are in higher speed 5:26 why? Also why the LR in the end…?

@homelandfighters8541 2 года назад

you must test the 'jeep' from india.sometimes it can fly like in the movie

@tejeshyel 2 года назад

Lot of them are still running in India.. cj-3A also manufactured in India

@65cj55 2 года назад

Hoorah !

@arbab8114 Год назад

That's an M38A1. M38 is a flat fender.

@Alladin-n5j 5 месяцев назад

Willys Jeep was the original We had one in our backyard in Australia

@devanman7920 2 года назад

Love these sort of vids!!

@Whatzthat1 2 года назад

I’m proud to say I have a military m38a1😁

@arainmk 2 года назад

Looks to me the showed the wrong jeep for the forties

@matt_pick 2 года назад

3:59 in a Willys, privates are pressed together 🤣🤣

@Ashwey_069 2 года назад

You can actually buy willys jeeps fully restorated in Germany, it just takes some years until you get it and costs a little fotrune but they are great really love this car

@Ihateironyanddumbusernames 2 года назад

can you provide us with the name of the company or person doing these restorations? im interested

@AlphGen 2 года назад

I believe there were 3 suppliers of jeep in ww2

@tokehsawit411 2 года назад

One more. Review lada niva

@daivikshetty9277 2 года назад

THAR

@elliottbeetz6753 2 года назад

I love the history side of this video, but why does it feel like I’m watching a Jeep ad? The new Jeep is still the same as the last 3 years?! It does look nice compared to an 80 year old relic but come on. I’m just waiting for him to tell me how I can buy one of these jeeps and what the financing is at my local dealer

@tonys1636 2 года назад

Don't know why LR discontinued their best seller for the awful unpractical, if needing a working off roader, new Defender. The first 1948 Landrover had the same 74" wheelbase but better mounted cart springs and had an Agricultural hitch option with PTO. Dearer than a new Fergy though, but had more uses.