Smoke is expensive to render and can cause massive glitches when too many smoke "planes" are overlapped.

You know, that was the joke, right?

Also, the coolest feature. Real flip up headlights. They can be flipped about 200 degrees "downward" to light up the engine bay to fix stuff in the field :)

the first few hundreds yeah. It proved tricky to drive and maintain so many were converted back to 2WS and some shipped to Russia on the lend-lease program.

Great article Jason, and you got all the details right.

Just to add more info. The first Prototype done by Willys was named the Willys MA.

Early production models by Willys were called MBs, but commonly, we call 'em Slat Grills. Featured welded grilles that were time consuming and expensive to manufacture. Ford was the…

It did exist..

Hehe thanks :)

Simple. Original specification called for it being able to be lifted by 4 men. To lift over obstacles under a wheel, or change a tire on the field. Of course it would never work.

It's that simple ! It ended up way too heavy, fully loaded, they were easily over the 3000lbs mark.

EDIT : Gray-sadness this morning :(

Correction - Not an Army jeep. A Civilian CJ2A. Looks nice nonetheless.

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I might be a few days late on this article, but I just want to point out a few things as the owner of a 1944 Ford GPW WWII "jeep" (Officially, it wasn't called a jeep back then but a Truck, 1/4 ton, 4x4, tady bit longer and we call it the G503 in the hobby.)

One thing to remember is these were expected to "survive"…