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THE BUILDING OF A Legend

A JOURNEY THROUGH THE FIRST 80 YEARS OF JEEP, THE SEVEN-SLOT ICON

IF WE look back at the history of the automobile as an epoch of time, one must admit that its brief 135-year story represents a mere sliver of our planet’s chronical. Yet when Carl Benz was issued a patent for a ‘vehicle powered by a gas engine’, he certainly could not have fathomed the impact it would have on the human race.

In 1903, Dutch brothers Hendrik and Jacobus Spijker took the concept further by incorporating

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