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Originally Posted by extrashaky
The US government placed an order with Toyota in 1950 to build 100 Jeeps on the Willys design for the Korean War. Toyota used that as a jump start for development of the Toyota BJ Jeep that they prototyped in 1951 and started production of in 1953. The BJ ultimately developed into the Land Cruiser.
ETA: The US government, Willys and Kaiser were all whores when it came to Jeep production. The early Willys Jeep was licensed to manufacturers in many different countries. Willys designs are still built in India by Mahindra. There were also designs that originated with Willys built in Brazil, Argentina and Spain. Kia is now building a Jeep truck for the South Korean military that is licensed from the Kaiser M715. Even Chrysler got into the act, licensing Jeeps to Chinese manufacturers.
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Hey, so I was kinda right!
A friend of mine has one of the 194x willys jeeps made by ford.