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Dodge is undoubtedly an American model of automobile manufactured by FCA US LLC (formerly generally known as Chrysler Group LLC), located in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Dodge vehicles currently add some lower-priced badge variants of Chrysler-badged vehicles in addition to performance cars, though for most of its existence Dodge was Chrysler's mid-priced brand above Plymouth.Founded as being the Dodge Brothers Company machine shop by brothers Horace Elgin Dodge and John Francis Dodge as a result of 1900s,[3] Dodge was originally a supplier of parts and assemblies for Detroit-based automakers and began building complete automobiles in the "Dodge Brothers" brand in 1914, predating the founding of Chrysler Corporation. The factory was situated in Hamtramck, Michigan, and was the Dodge Main factory from 1910 until its closing in January 1980. The Dodge brothers both died in 1920, along with the company was sold by their own families to Dillon, Read & Co. in 1925 before being sold to Chrysler in 1928. Dodge vehicles mainly was comprised of trucks and full-sized passenger cars over the 1970s, even though it made memorable compact cars (such because the 1963–76 Dart) and midsize cars (such as being the "B-Body" Coronet and Charger from 1962–79).The 1973 oil crisis and it is subsequent affect on the American automobile industry led Chrysler to formulate the K platform of compact to midsize cars to the 1981 model year. The K platform as well as derivatives are credited with reviving Chrysler's business inside the 1980s; one derivative took over as Dodge Caravan.The Dodge brand has withstood the multiple ownership changes at Chrysler from 1998 to 2009, including its short-lived merger with Daimler-Benz AG from 1998 to 2007, its subsequent sale to Cerberus Capital Management, its 2009 bailout from the United States government, and its particular subsequent Chapter 11 bankruptcy and acquisition by Fiat.In 2011, Dodge, Ram, and Dodge's Viper were separated. Dodge asserted the Dodge Viper could well be an SRT product and Ram is a manufacturer. In 2014, SRT was merged into Dodge. Later that year, Chrysler Group was renamed FCA US LLC, corresponding while using merger of Fiat S.p.A. and Chrysler Group to the single corporate structure of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

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