Dodge Automobiles Blog

It seems like a distant memory: Fiat imports its products to the United States, but the cars see few buyers in the new market. Today the tables are turned: imported Chrysler products, badged as Fiats and Lancias, are met with mixed success in Europe. Chrysler currently makes four models in North ...    Read more

Ford has practically owned the police cruiser market for 15 years, but the automaker recently replaced the Crown Victoria Police Interceptor with the Taurus-based Interceptor. Dodge and Chevy are trying harder than ever to take a piece of the pie away from Ford with new Charger Pursuit and Caprice ...    Read more

Vehicle sales in the U.S are currently on pace for their best year since 2007, reports Bloomberg, and automakers are currently boosting their production capabilities in order to meet pent-up consumer demand. According to Bloomberg, analysts have revised their initial estimates of 13.6 million vehicles sold upward to 14.3 million following ...    Read more

“Motorcity” is a new animated series slated for the The Disney Channel about a group of teenagers fighting an evil billionaire for their rights to own cars. The series takes place in the subterranean refuge of Motorcity, which sits below the futuristic city of Detroit Deluxe. Known ...    Read more

Pinching liftgates in the Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Grand Caravan are main cause of concern in this week's latest round of recalls, along with headrests in certain BMW 3 Series models. Ferrari is also concerned over a problem with ...    Read more

Production of the 2013 Dodge Dart has begun in Belvidere, Illinois, and the first example off the line was a red Rallye model. It was equipped with a turbocharged 1.4-liter inline-four engine, a six-speed manual transmission, a backup camera, and sunroof. The 2013 Dodge Dart was introduced at the Detroit auto ...    Read more

Chrysler has announced that it will be recalling almost 120,000 Chrysler 300 and Dodge Charger sedans from the 2011-12 model years after reports of ABS and electronic stability control malfunctions due to an overheating fuse box issue. BMW is also set to recall some 24,000 diesel-powered 3 Series, X5, and X6 ...    Read more

Dodge is aiming for the compact sedan leaders with the all-new 2013 Dodge Dart. In this Feature Flick, Motor Trend’s Jessi Lang drives one in Austin, Texas to find out how the Dart compares to other small four-doors. Much like Mini, Dodge designed the all-new Dart with personalization in ...    Read more

Automotive production plants frequently close during the summer to give workers time to rest, engineers time to retool or upgrade plants, and dealers time to normalize their inventories. If you're Chrysler, however, that might not be the case: the company is keeping four plants open through the summer to keep ...    Read more

My, how the mighty have fallen: in a month where the midsize segment's top contender and bottom third didn't change, competitors from Chrysler, Honda, and Nissan are making things interesting. As we just said, the top spot didn't change at all in April: the Toyota Camry sold 36,820 units, enough to ...    Read more

You know the old truism that American drivers hate manual transmissions and only ever buy automatics? Well, turns out that's not necessarily true anymore. An analysis in USA Today reveals that the proportion of new cars sold with manual transmissions in the first quarter of this year was at ...    Read more

One of the continued themes we've been hearing from Hyundai is this: the company's Elantra and Sonata models are massively successful, but the success is being tempered by production ...    Read more

Chrysler Group reported a healthy sales gain of 20 percent year-over-year for April 2012, with many of the company's models reporting record monthly sales volume. Chrysler Group as a whole sold 141,165 vehicles last month, compared to 117,225 in April 2011. Chrysler - 31,879 sales, up 56 percent April represented the Chrysler ...    Read more

Chrysler has started producing the 2013 Dodge Dart in Illinois, and while the car might not get 40 mpg on the highway just yet, the car will add an aerodynamic kit to some models later this year hopes of allowing them to achieve at least 41 mpg. While Chrysler Group CEO ...    Read more

The cars are "Imported from Detroit," but the money's coming from everywhere: the Chrysler Group posted its best quarter since the company's emergence from bankruptcy in 2009, more than quadrupling its net income over the same time period last year. Chrysler's net revenue for the first quarter of this year was ...    Read more

While the Challenger has never been a top performer, some might say the car is more than the sum of its parts. In this episode of Ignition , Motor Trend associate road test editor Carlos Lago takes what would otherwise be a rained-out day of testing, and turns it ...    Read more

When is a Dart not a Dart? When it's sold in the Chinese market as the Fiat Viaggio. Yes, this sedan shares almost all of its mechanical parts with the 2013 Dodge Dart sedan sold in America, but wears unique sheetmetal designed to lure in Chinese buyers. In some ...    Read more

WardsAuto editors "10 Best Interiors" list for 2012 includes four subcompact or compact models, suggesting yet again that driving a cheap car doesn’t always mean settling for a cheap cabin. This year’s competition included 40 entries; editors do not place rankings on the 10 winners. “We saw a ...    Read more

Dodge has finally released official pricing for the 2013 Dart sedan, which reaches showrooms in June. The 2013 Dodge Dart is offered in five trim levels of ascending equipment levels, SE, SXT, Rallye, Limited, and R/T. The entry version is the Dart SE, which rings in at $16,790 after ...    Read more

On the latest episode of Wide Open Throttle, host Jessi Lang passes the mic off to Motor Trend Detroit editor Todd Lassa for a look at the most important unveilings from the New York auto show floor. Lassa starts with one of the coolest New York show debuts—the SRT Viper. ...    Read more

It wouldn't be a major auto show without some early leaks, and so the Fiat Viaggio has been shown online ahead of the Beijing Motor Show. The Italian-badged sedan drew our attention because it’s a slightly-revised version of the new 2013 Dodge Dart. As we've previously heard, the Viaggio ...    Read more

The 2013 Dodge Dart will have plenty of technology when it goes on sale later this year, but Dodge is adding another piece of futuristic kit to the new sedan: wireless device charging. The system has two components: a mat (which is plugged into a power source and has a spooled ...    Read more

The 2013 SRT Viper was one of the undisputed stars of this year’s New York Auto Show. The internet is awash in photos, articles, tweets and pins of the new Motown-made supercar. If you’d like to park ...    Read more

New York auto show debuts were bigger than ever this year, with automakers choosing the Big Apple to unveil more than 20 new models and concepts. Covering everything from volume sellers like the Chevrolet Traverse and Nissan Altima, to heavy-hitting halo sports cars like the SRT Viper, the ...    Read more

The Viper is back—with a few changes. The supercar returns as the 2013 SRT Viper, which slithered its way on stage at the New York auto show this week. Jessi Lang gives viewers an close-up look at the mighty serpent on this week’s episode of Wide Open Throttle. ...    Read more