Dodge Automobiles Blog

Dodge is making a strong effort to grab a portion of the sales pie that is the compact-car segment with the 2013 Dart. The new sedan will replace the aging and unloved Dodge Caliber as the brand’s smallest vehicle. Although official information on the car will likely remain ...    Read more

We’ve been hearing for a long time that Dodge will launch a new small car to replace the Caliber, and now the company has shared that car’s name. Meet the 2013 Dodge Dart sedan, which will be fully unveiled in January at the Detroit auto show. We knew that Dodge ...    Read more

Been away from your computer this week and missed all the automotive news? We’ve gathered a few of the top stories of the past week for your convenience. 2011 Tokyo Motor Show We scoured the floor at this week’s Tokyo Motor Show to bring you photos, news, and more live from ...    Read more

All hail the Toyota Camry: it topped all of its mid-size sedan competitors in sales numbers last month by a sizeable margin, a key sign that the car’s 2011 redesign has reaped rewards for Toyota. Japan Leads (as usual), But There’s Trouble in Paradise It should come as little surprised that the ...    Read more

Ever since the Dodge Viper went on hiatus after the 2010 model year, we’ve been aching for its return. Driving the Viper was just such a visceral, exciting experience. According SRT chief’s latest column in Viper magazine (and confirmed by our sources at Dodge), we won’t have to wait much ...    Read more

For the 20th month in a row, Chrysler Group reported monthly sales that were higher than a year prior. The company’s monthly vehicle sales volume in November was up 45 percent compared to November 2010, to 107,172 vehicles sold last month. While those sales jumps are impressive, it’s important to ...    Read more

The 2012 Dodge Journey SUV and the 2012 Fiat 500 hatch have been recalled for contaminated brake fluid. 2012 Dodge Journey, 2012 Fiat 500 The Problem: Certain Journeys and 500s were assembled with contaminated brake fluid that can ruin the sealing components ...    Read more

Carmakers have offered factory navigation systems for more than 10 years now, but creating the perfect interface has been far from easy, as evidenced by a recent study that confirms a significant number of car owners still find their navigation systems frustrating to use. "Routing — ...    Read more

Part of CEO Sergio Marchionne’s plan to consolidate the Chrysler Group’s models is to eliminate Dodge’s Grand Caravan in favor of the Chrysler Town & Country. Or is it? According to The Detroit News, the Dodge Grand Caravan may live on…but only in Canada. The Chrysler minivans will get a complete ...    Read more

Speculation continues to fly over the successor to the now-discontinued Ram (formerly Dodge) Dakota. The latest report claims a future replacement could be engineered to be sold in markets outside of North America. That’s not exactly unusual, but as Automotive News reports, it does differ from Chrysler’s original vision. ...    Read more

It’s well known that Dodge is planning to introduce an all-new compact sedan at next year’s Detroit auto show. But according to The Detroit News the new compact will not wear the Hornet name as previously assumed. Reid Biglund, the head of the Dodge brand, told The Detroit News that “Hornet ...    Read more

Been away from your computer this week and missed all the automotive news? We’ve gathered a few of the top stories of the past week along with the weekend racing schedule for your convenience. 2012 Automobile of the Year: Audi A7 We announced that the Audi A7 is our Automobile of ...    Read more

It’s no surprise that Dodge is working on a new compact sedan – such a model was mentioned as part of Chrysler’s 2009 turnaround plan. However, the Fiat-based sedan looks to be nearing completion. Lucky for us, our colleagues at Motor Trend caught the car while it was out ...    Read more

Remember Chrysler’s plans to put a dual-clutch transmission in the 200 and Dodge Avenger? According to The Car Connection, those plans have been put on hold indefinitely. Chrysler won’t introduce a dual-clutch in our market because the company doesn’t think American customers will like the transmission’s driving feel. Chrysler had ...    Read more

Dodge and the Street and Racing Technology (SRT) division have divulged information on two new special-edition high-performance models. The 2012 Dodge Charger SRT8 Super Bee and Dodge Challenger SRT8 392 Yellow Jacket receive a host of visual changes to make the cars stand out from the crowd. Mechanically the two cars ...    Read more

The Specialty Equipment Market Association has been going on this week in Las Vegas, and we’ve been hard at work judging the concepts from our Ann Arbor office. We’ve found our top five cars (and the proverbial wild card) that we think should tickle your tuner car fancy. ...    Read more

Chrysler is keeping up its reputation of for making safe cars: its 2012 Town & Country and Dodge Grand Caravan have joined several other models under the Chrysler umbrella to be named an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Top Safety Pick. Achieving the top mark of “Good” in all three testing ...    Read more

The mix-up in the hotly contested midsize sedan segment seems to be over as Japanese manufacturers recover volume. The Toyota Camry and Honda Accord, which had been in short supply in the wake of the March 11th earthquake in Japan, have regained the foothold as the leaders of the ...    Read more

There’s an adage that there is no replacement for displacement, and Chrysler seems to be following it: the company's Mopar parts and accessory division is launching  two massive crate engines at its SEMA show display. First thing’s first: the stand’s crown jewel is a new V-10 ...    Read more

Chrysler has been riding an upward wave in its sales – October 2011 marks the 19th-consecutive month of sales gains compared to the year prior. A total number of 114,512 vehicles were sold between the Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Jeep, and Ram brands last month, 27 percent more than the same ...    Read more

The Dodge Viper was always about doing things the American way. It was big, loud, brash, and it would kill you in a heartbeat if you so much as forgot that for a second. One of the keys to the Viper’s lunacy was its V-10. Like a Corvette without its ...    Read more

Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne is unhappy with certain parts of the new labor agreement reached between his company’s workers and the United Auto Workers union. According to Automotive News, Marchionne told reporters that a two-tier wage plan is not viable and must be ended when the Chrysler-UAW labor deal ...    Read more

Chrysler Group reported its third-quarter financial results today, headlined by the news that the company made $212 million in net income during the quarter. In the third quarter of last year, Chrysler reported a net loss of $84 million. The profits came on the back of net revenue of $13.5 billion ...    Read more

Chrysler became the last of the three major American carmakers to sign a new labor contract with the United Auto Workers yesterday, capping off a season of speculation, negotiations, and financial wrangling. The deal, which covers roughly 26,000 employees, passed yesterday with 55.75 percent of Chrysler’s UAW-represented workforce voting in favor ...    Read more

It’s that time of the year again, and Consumer Reports has gathered data from 1.3 million subscribers to predict reliability on new models. Japanese brands still continue to dominate, while Ford has taken a nosedive with the worst results from the domestics. The new 2012 Ford Explorer, Fiesta, and Focus have ...    Read more