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Dodge is undoubtedly an American label of automobile manufactured by FCA US LLC (formerly called Chrysler Group LLC), situated in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Dodge vehicles currently are the lower-priced badge variants of Chrysler-badged vehicles in addition to performance cars, though for high of its existence Dodge was Chrysler's mid-priced brand above Plymouth.Founded because the Dodge Brothers Company machine shop by brothers Horace Elgin Dodge and John Francis Dodge in 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 known as the 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 was made up of trucks and full-sized passenger cars with the 1970s, eventhough it made memorable compact cars (such as being 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 its subsequent affect 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 its derivatives are credited with reviving Chrysler's business within the 1980s; one derivative had become 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 with the United States government, and it is 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 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 the single corporate structure of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

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