Ford, Jeep, Mercedes and Beyond: More Compact Trucks On the Way

Dodge is undoubtedly an American label of automobile manufactured by FCA US LLC (formerly often known as Chrysler Group LLC), situated in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Dodge vehicles currently are the lower-priced badge variants of Chrysler-badged vehicles together with performance cars, though for high of its existence Dodge was Chrysler's mid-priced brand above Plymouth.Founded because Dodge Brothers Company machine shop by brothers Horace Elgin Dodge and John Francis Dodge during the early 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 positioned in Hamtramck, Michigan, and was known as the Dodge Main factory from 1910 until its closing in January 1980. The Dodge brothers both died in 1920, as well as the company was sold by their loved ones to Dillon, Read & Co. in 1925 before being sold to Chrysler in 1928. Dodge vehicles mainly contained trucks and full-sized passenger cars from the 1970s, eventhough it made memorable compact cars (such because 1963–76 Dart) and midsize cars (such as being the "B-Body" Coronet and Charger from 1962–79).The 1973 oil crisis as well as subsequent effect on the American automobile industry led Chrysler to build up the K platform of compact to midsize cars for that 1981 model year. The K platform and its particular derivatives are credited with reviving Chrysler's business inside the 1980s; the sort of derivative took over as the 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 through 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 declared that the Dodge Viper could well be an SRT product and Ram is a manufacturer. In 2014, SRT was merged directly into Dodge. Later that year, Chrysler Group was renamed FCA US LLC, corresponding together with the merger of Fiat S.p.A. and Chrysler Group in to the single corporate structure of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

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