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Churchlady said:This is the best thing I've seen on the various model designations:
http://www.jedi.com/obiwan/jeep/misc/models.html.
The link at the bottom to the jeep.com "Heritage" pages is really good. Original ads, timeline, etc.
I gather that while some of the acronyms have an actual meaning (Military, Civilian, Dispatcher, Forward Controls, the rest (esp. later ones) seem to be purely arbitrary. I'm sure there were factory "insiders' " reasons for all of them that we'll never know, but reasonable guesses could be made for some of them. SJ was probably "Station" Jeep ("Soccer Mom" Jeep, in current lingo), VJ (soon after WWII) was probably "Victory Jeep", & XJ could indeed mean "Experimental" since (1) the X had been used in that sense by other makers, (2) it was the first (?) unibody Jeep.
Great info! But credibiltiy is in question because they said that a Cherokee was offered with a V8 with 2WD only! Has anyone seen one?