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Why lift your Jeep? More height means more clearance for dealing
with obstacles while offroading. It allows you to run larger tires,
which also helps with conquering offroad challenges. Still another
reason is that many folks just feel that a lifted Jeep with larger
tires looks better, and I certainly agree with them. The added
height and larger tires just give a Jeep a better more pronounced
profile
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In spite of reported over-all declining sales in SUVs, Jeep has
seen its two largest entries into this Auto segment enjoying
surprising results for the month of October 2005. As reported in
the article “Topic: Big trouble for big SUVs: Sales and prices of
used-utes continue to slide” in an edition of the Automotive News,
"Prices are falling, and they are falling fast," Webb says.
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Where did the name come from? Not from the original designer and
builder, the Bantam Car Company. It wasn’t Willys, the famous
manufacturer of the Willys MB, either. Ford didn’t pick the name
when it was making the GPW, and the U.S. Military never designated
the term either. Truth be told, no one knows for sure just how the
name “Jeep” came about, but the one common thread is that all of
the theories relate to a sort of general population adoption of the
term.
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