Re: [Amc-list] IH as first "SUV"

[msproviero@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I find that hard to agree with when the wheelbase was around 3" longer than the XJ and overall length was 176.25".  

http://www.wx4.org/to/wagons/usefulstuff/wagonspecs.html



Look at the demographic focus of the ads on this page.

 http://www.wx4.org/to/wagons/usefulstuff/visual/visual_id.html

How were they not the beginning of the SUV?


-Spro

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From: farna <farna@xxxxxxx> 

> Quote from NYT article: 
> "Dodgeâ??s Town Wagon wasnâ??t offered with four-wheel drive until 1957. Willys, 
> Kaiser and later American Motors sold civilian versions of the Army jeep, but 
> these spartan vehicles were hardly the forebears of the modern soccer-mom 
> S.U.V." 
> 
> While the author doesn't specifically mention the Willys wagon, it does fall 
> under the category of "spartan vehicles". It was a wagon body on a CJ frame, 
> more the size of a Geo Tracker or Suzuki Samurai (four door versions) -- 
> definitely not a big comfy SUV!! 
> 
> Frank Swygert 
> Publisher, American Motors Cars 
> 
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