8 Best Muscle Cars Of The \u002639;80s

$8 Best Muscle Cars Of The \u002639;80s$

Dodge is definitely an American model of automobile manufactured by FCA US LLC (formerly called Chrysler Group LLC), situated in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Dodge vehicles currently add the 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 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 found in Hamtramck, Michigan, and was 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 was comprised of trucks and full-sized passenger cars with the 1970s, eventhough it made memorable compact cars (such because 1963–76 Dart) and midsize cars (such because the "B-Body" Coronet and Charger from 1962–79).The 1973 oil crisis as well as subsequent influence 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 was crowned 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 subsequent Chapter 11 bankruptcy and acquisition by Fiat.In 2011, Dodge, Ram, and Dodge's Viper were separated. Dodge declared that the Dodge Viper will be an SRT product and Ram might be a manufacturer. In 2014, SRT was merged directly into Dodge. Later that year, Chrysler Group was renamed FCA US LLC, corresponding with all the merger of Fiat S.p.A. and Chrysler Group to the single corporate structure of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

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