In Mongolia, what kind of vehicle is a jeep?

7/9/2016 2:05:01 PM

It’s been a while for me since I was in Mongolia, but I’m quite sure that, in this context, ‘jeep’ still refers to anything that resembles a Jeep.

When I was in Mongolia, the most popular ‘jeeps’, specifically for touring the country, were Russian made UAZ ‘jeeps’.

They tend to be quite similar to Jeeps. The kind I remember looked quite a bit like this.

7/9/2016 5:03:57 AM

“Jeep” originally referred to a small US Army scout vehicle built by Willys-Overland during WWII. More then 640,000 were produced and they were immensely popular with all Allied armies for their sturdiness, simplicity, and reliability.

Since then, “Jeep” has been simultaneously a brand name (of both military and commercial vehicles) that changed hands from Willys-Overland to Kaiser to American Motors to Chrysler and now Fiat, and a generic name for any small or medium-sized 4-wheel-drive on-/off-road vehicle, especially one with a soft top or a removable hard-top, regardless of make or country of origin.

This is more of english.SE question than a travel.SE one, but there you go. You can read the Wikipedia article here, but really nothing captures the spirit of the Jeep better than the famous Bill Mauldin cartoon.

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