Dodge
From Classic Car Life
Dodge is a United States-based brand of automobiles, minivans, sport utility vehicles,
and, until 2009, pickup trucks, manufactured and marketed by Chrysler Group LLC in more than
60 different countries and territories worldwide. Founded as the Dodge Brothers Company in
1900 to supply parts and assemblies for Detroit’s growing auto industry, Dodge began making
its own complete vehicles in 1914. The brand was sold to Chrysler Corporation in 1928,
passed through the short-lived DaimlerChrysler merger of 1998–2007 as part of the Chrysler
Group, was a part of Chrysler LLC owned by Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity
investment firm, and is now a part of the Chrysler Group LLC which has an alliance with
Fiat. Fiat has plans to eliminate some Dodge, Chrysler, and Jeep existing vehicles in favor
of Fiat-Chrysler co-developed vehicles.
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