The Jeep CJ was the brand's civilian version of the Quad Willys Overland built for the U.S. Army during World War II. The CJ-2A went on sale in 1945, and the CJ-3A and CJ-3B followed within a decade.

It's funny: Every time Jeep rolls out a new product, there's no small amount of fretting that it will have lost the plot -- that the new truck will be too soft, too cushy, too much of a departure from ...