Cars
The car in war, pretty much as in modern peacetime, offers a quick and cheap means of transport from A to B. The difference is that in the 1930s and 1940s the automobile was a pretty heavy, basic and unreliable machine, especially if you asked it to do more than cruise.
World War II saw the development of the off-road car, the ability to drive straight off the tarmac and across a ploughed field if you ever needed to. The 4x4 ruled the roost and the US Jeep itself became a household name; many people today still call their family 4x4s a Jeep, regardless of the manufacturer of the vehicles.
