In 1907, the Willys Overland company was nearing bankruptcy, but things soon changed for the best, and Willys Overland was turned around, and achieved the second highest sales in the United States. The United States army had set out a list of requirements for a military vehicle to be used in World War 2 by the United States and their allies. They chose three manufacturers, Willys Overland, Ford and Bantam to design and produce prototypes that met …showed first 75 words of 645 total…

…showed last 75 words of 645 total…The CJ series continued on up until 1986, with the last of the series being the CJ-8. Willys Overland built approximately 1 569 000 CJ series vehicles through the 41 year production stint. In 1953 Kaiser, which was later taken over by AMC in 1970, bought out Willys Overland, and Chrysler then bought AMC in 1987. Following that, in 1998, Chrysler merged with Daimler, to form Daimler-Chrysler. So the Germans, who had lost the war to the Jeep, have now taken ownership of it.