Willys (Willys-Overland) Model History

United States · founded 1908

Toledo, Ohio automaker (1908–1963) — once the US's second-largest carmaker, builder of the WWII Willys MB jeep and pioneer of the all-steel station wagon.

Models

Willys MB

The WWII quarter-ton 4x4 'jeep' — Willys's most famous vehicle and the foundation of the entire Jeep marque.

Military utility vehicle · 1941–1945
Willys Jeep Station Wagon

America's first mass-produced all-steel station wagon (1946) — a Brooks Stevens design and a Willys postwar success.

Station wagon · 1946–1965
Willys-Overland Jeepster

A sporty open phaeton on the Jeep wagon platform (1948–1951) — the last traditional phaeton built by a major US automaker.

Phaeton · 1948–1951
Willys Aero

Willys's last US passenger car (1952–1955) — a unibody compact sedan/hardtop that anticipated the compact-car era.

Compact car · 1952–1955
Willys Americar

Willys's economical prewar compact (1937–1942) — best remembered today as a hot-rod and gasser favorite.

Compact car · 1937–1942
Willys 77

A small, cheap Depression-era Willys (1933–1936) with a streamlined Amos Northup body — the company's survival car.

Compact car · 1933–1936
Willys-Knight

Willys's prestigious sleeve-valve line (1914–1933) — 'the only engine that improves with use,' and the last sleeve-valve car built in America.

Full-size car · 1914–1933
Whippet (Overland Whippet)

A light, cheap small car (1926–1931) that briefly made Willys-Overland the US's third-largest automaker.

Compact car · 1926–1931
Overland

The volume Overland line John Willys built the company on — affordable poppet-valve cars that drove its 1910s rise.

Full-size car · 1908–1926

Other makes