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A hydraulic or mechanical device used for to lift the vehicle, generally when is necessary to change one or more wheels. There are car jacks and service jacks.

A known British maker of luxury cars and the afferent trademark. The Jaguar story began in 1922, when William Lyons and William Walmsley founded the Swallow Sidecar Co in Blackpool. Five years later, they diversified into making special bodies for Austin Seven and Morris Cowley chassis in an old munitions factory, in Coventry. The initial name of the cars was abbreviated to SS (from Swallow Sidecar Co), but in September 1935, came the first all-new car - the 2.7-litre four-door saloon, called "SS Jaguar". Two years later, in 1937, the famous feline leaping logo was unveiled. By request of William Lyons, the sculpted Jaguar on the radiator cap (and, more recently, on the bonnet) was created by The Autocar's artist, Frederick Gordon Crosby. The 'Jaguar' name was an ideal choice for feline grace and elegance, combining docility with remarkable power and agility, strong attributes of his racing successes.

When post-war production started, in 1945, the company name was changed to Jaguar Cars Ltd because the SS initials had too many bad wartime memories.

Acronym for "Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association"; established in 1967.

A light, rugged utility vehicle with four-wheel drive, original developed for military use; now, synonymous with "off road" car. One of the more popular theories claims that the "jeep" name comes from Eugene the Jeep (see the bottom photo), a fabulous animal out of the comic strip "Popeye", created by Elzie Crisler Segar. Eugene was a small, impish, 4 dimensional character that lived in a 3 dimensional world. As such, he was not constrained to the world we know - he could do wondrous things like walk through walls, walk on ceilings or appear out of nowhere. Eugene the Jeep appeared in "Popeye" in 1936 - about 4 years before the US Army started testing its new 1/4 ton utility vehicle - which would eventually be called the Jeep. No one really knows WHY this new vehicle was called a Jeep, but one theory has it that "Popeye" was an extremely popular comic strip at the time and the soldiers were so impressed with the new vehicle's go-anywhere, do-anything capabilities, they were reminded of Eugene's character. Others think it was a simple contraction of Ford abbreviation - GP, for "General Purpose" utility vehicle, and to soldiers, raised on Popeye, the transformation of "G.P." into "jeep" was inevitable.