American Jeep Vs German Kubelwagen: Truck Face-Off | Combat Dealers

My father was in WWII and when he was in Normandy, his Jeep ran out of fuel. He said that he was too far away from a fuel source because he was on some farm. A farmer brought him some Calvados (distilled apples) which he made him understand was almost pure alcohol. So "any port in a storm" and 4 liter bottle's worth of Calvados later poured into the Jeep an Brrroommm off it went. He said that when he told everyone back at the camp what had happened, the others tried it too.

Eisenhower said of the KW, "It does everything ours does, but on half the gas." But in the end, we had more jeeps and gas.

I noticed that they didn't compare fording depth, mud traversing, weapon mounting, and towing capacity.

"If we survive we're gonna win" - Murica...

After WWII, farmers bought and worked the jeep on their farms. they were sold for $50 brand new.

I think the most important quality to take into consideration is fuel consumption. Running fuel trucks to the troops was a challenge and the Kubelwagen consumed far less than the Jeep did.

basically it’s no contest. Somehow, in the back of our minds, we want both. Especially the “Schwimm” version that had a propeller on the back.

i just saw a video of a wwii jeep being assembled in 5 minutes by germans lol

Really hard to take them serious when one guy complains they where 'death traps' always tipping over... No.. WWII Jeeps where not prone to tipping over. That comes well after both WWII and the Korean war with M151 and M151A that had a new fully independent suspension that was prone to 'tucking under' when unloaded. These didn't see service until Vietnam. The M151A2 redesigned the rear suspension and fixed this issue.

“If the Jeep wins, it proves the Allied factories made better stuff” What?

4:21 - schwimmwagen (swim car with 4X4 transmission and propeler too).

Anybody else notice at 0.18 it shows a pile of track links and one of the pin holes has a very bad crack followed by the dude marveling over German engineering 😂😂😂😂😂😂

You're forgetting something. The jeep was also engineered so you could take the tires off and run it on train tracks, it could haul up to 9 tons on rail.

Totally different vehicles . Not a fair comparison . The kubel was a 2wd passenger vehicle and the jeep was a four wheel drive 1/4 ton truck.

The Kuebelwagen is not really an example of overengineering. It´s really simple and realiable. PS: it was used up to the 1960ies. i learned to drive on it in 1988 during my time in the Bundeswehr.

can't this guy speak normally without accentuating his ridiculous carney accent

This is dumb. the jeep was 4wd could cross sand mud and drive in a forest. It could tow a 75mm anti tank gun or mount a heavy machine gun. Ask the SAS 'Desert rats' what you can do with a Jeep.

I’ve driven both. I learned stick on a stock 1945 Jeep and drove it in the Cali hills in 4 wheel drive. I’ve driven a 1943 Kubelwagen at a reenactment (harder than the owner knows). The Kubel simply drives better and surprisingly chews its way through sandy roads with no problems. It’s a bit of a tough call. I think overall the Jeep is more rugged but the Kubel is more stable and being air cooled, is more reliable cold climates. They really are very close. If you put a gun to my head I might go with the Jeep for reliability but even that could be debated.

I was grown up with that old jeep in Burma. Its steering wheel helped me to grow up my arm muscles.

I recently got a ‘56 Unimog 404s What a machine! Thank you for taking so much time to put together a detailed video. Very well done gentleman. Warm regards from Canada