Long before the term SUV was invented, Jeep was delivering to its customers a solid off-road capable four-door family friendly SUV.  The first of these was the 1963 Jeep Wagoneer. It was rugged yet very comfortable - it was as well suited to a harsh off-road situation as it was to cruising on the highway. To say Jeep was ahead of its time back then is a very big understatement. It only took the other automakers around thirty years before they had their own four-door SUVs.

Fast forward to 2009, just about every automaker has at least one SUV in its lineup. Even Porsche has a SUV
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For those old enough to remember, the Corvette (GM’s premier sports car) had turned into a flashy two-seater by the mid 1970s. The 1978 film Corvette Summer epitomized how flamboyant the Corvette had become. The Corvette by this time looked more comfortable parked in front of a trendy discotheque rather than a drag strip. Who could blame Chevrolet? After 1971 most performance cars had the life sucked out of them and by the mid 1970s what performance cars were left were shadows of their former selves. Chevrolet would not entirely abandon performance; it just was not the centerpiece of t