Dodge Motor Car Company History

Have you ever thought about the history of your vehicle, where it came from, the company that built it? There are millions of vehicles currently being built in America and hundreds of different vehicle manufacturers, each one with their own story. The Dodge Motor Car Company is simply one amongst the clouds. John and Horace Dodge built the Dodge Motor Company from the ground up and even after more than a century, the company has remained one of the highest selling automotive companies in history. The Dodge Brothers formed their own company in 1914 after slightly over a decade of working for Henry Ford of Ford Motor Company. “Henry Ford contracted with the brothers to build engines, transmissions and axles. Ford was unable to pay the Dodges
Haynes, who had been with the brothers since the bicycle days, to run the company” (Zatz, Allpar). Without the Dodge brothers, it was believed that the company would disappear once they passed, however those who presumed that were wrong. Haynes expanded Dodge Motor Company more than ever before. The company was soon pushed into the truck automotive assembly line in order to appeal to a larger market of buyers. After the United States went to war and their larger vehicles were shipped over seas for military transport use, the vehicles demanded more
The Viper was the first vehicle to be added to the list of SRT vehicles and remained the only SRT vehicle produced by Mopar until 2004. In 2004, the Ram SRT10 was introduced with an 8.3 liter V10 engine producing 500 horsepower, skyrocketing to the top of the most powerful and fastest pickup trucks in the world, succeeding the Ford Lightning from 2003. In 2005, the Chrysler 300 SRT8 was introduced, it was powered by a 6.1 liter 426 horsepower V8, running though a 5-speed automatic transmission to a rear wheel drive platform. In 2006 the 300 was joined by the introduction of the Dodge Charger and Dodge Magnum, both of which had the available SRT8 trim package, equipping them with the same 6.1 liter engine in a rear wheel drive platform. In 2007, Jeep, also owned by Dodge, introduced the Grand Cherokee SRT8. This was the first SRT vehicle to be offered in an all-wheel drive platform. In 2008, Dodge reintroduced the notorious V8 muscle car coupe, the Challenger. It was only offered in the SRT package until 2009 when the 3.6 liter V6 was standardly