Dodge is a United States-based brand of automobiles, minivans, sport utility vehicles,
and 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 Detroits 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 19982007 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.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
