Archive for the 'Dodge' Category

Dodge unveils Challenger Rallye Redline at Spring Fest

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

The Spring Festival, held annually in Southern California, has become a sort of mecca for late model Mopar owners, bringing together hundreds of owners of Chrysler’s LX platform cars – Challenger, Charger, Magnumand 300. The event was initially started by a small group of passionate forum members, but it has recently grown enough to garner official support from Chrysler. This [...]

Dodge adds Avenger SE V6 trim for 2012

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

While the top brass gets their minds made up as to whether there will be a next-generation Dodge Avenger, the folks at Dodge have gone ahead and added a new top trim to the current model. The 2012 Dodge AvengerSE V6 gets the Pentastar V6 tuned to 283 horsepower and 260 pound-feet of torque mated to a six-speed automatic, [...]

Dodge Grand Caravan, Avenger to be replaced by Fiat-based crossover

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

According to Automotive News, the Chrysler Group will kill off one of its bread-and-butter minivans – theDodge Grand Caravan – sometime during the 2013 calendar year. This will leave only the Chrysler Town & Country to do minivan battle for the Pentastar automaker. Curiously, through September of 2011, the Grand Caravan has actually outsold the more expensive Town & Country [...]

Dodge Mulling Super Durango SRT8 with 465HP Hemi V8

Sunday, September 25th, 2011

Chrysler already a high-performance SUV in its arsenal, namely the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8that comes fitted with a 6.4-liter Hemi V8 pushing out 465 HP and 630 Nm (465 lb-ft) of torque and which can complete the quarter mile sprint in the mid-13 seconds range. But now, the Detroit carmaker it also considering giving the Durango the SRT8 [...]

South Africa gets Dodge Caliber Mopar Edition. Lucky them.

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

South African Chrysler fans has a new special edition vehicle coming their way. Described by Chrysler as a way to “satisfy the boy racer in all of us,” the Dodge Caliber Mopar Edition is a blacked-out hatchback rolling on 18-inch powdercoated alloy wheels. Under the hood sits a 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine that’s been juiced up courtesy of [...]