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Dodge is surely an American make of automobile manufactured by FCA US LLC (formerly often known as Chrysler Group LLC), headquartered 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 beneath the "Dodge Brothers" brand in 1914, predating the founding of Chrysler Corporation. The factory was in Hamtramck, Michigan, and was referred to as Dodge Main factory from 1910 until its closing in January 1980. The Dodge brothers both died in 1920, and also the company was sold by their loved ones to Dillon, Read & Co. in 1925 before being sold to Chrysler in 1928. Dodge vehicles mainly contains trucks and full-sized passenger cars throughout the 1970s, eventhough it made memorable compact cars (such as being the 1963–76 Dart) and midsize cars (such since the "B-Body" Coronet and Charger from 1962–79).The 1973 oil crisis as well as its subsequent affect on the American automobile industry led Chrysler to cultivate 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 from the 1980s; the type 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 because of the United States government, as well as its subsequent Chapter 11 bankruptcy and acquisition by Fiat.In 2011, Dodge, Ram, and Dodge's Viper were separated. Dodge asserted the Dodge Viper can be an SRT product and Ram has to be manufacturer. In 2014, SRT was merged directly into Dodge. Later that year, Chrysler Group was renamed FCA US LLC, corresponding using the merger of Fiat S.p.A. and Chrysler Group in to the single corporate structure of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

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