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Dodge is surely an American label of automobile manufactured by FCA US LLC (formerly called Chrysler Group LLC), located in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Dodge vehicles currently add some 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 underneath the "Dodge Brothers" brand in 1914, predating the founding of Chrysler Corporation. The factory was positioned in Hamtramck, Michigan, and was referred to as 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 contained 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 because 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 formulate the K platform of compact to midsize cars for your 1981 model year. The K platform and its particular derivatives are credited with reviving Chrysler's business inside 1980s; the sort 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 stated that the Dodge Viper will 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 with all the merger of Fiat S.p.A. and Chrysler Group into your single corporate structure of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

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