What Impact Did Dodge Have On The Automotive Industry

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Back in 1903 Henry Ford started his company. At the beginning the Dodge brothers supplied him with needed resources. The Dodge brothers ended up supplying him with over 600 chassis, this includes motor, transmissions, and axles. They sold Ford these chassis for around $250 each. They had a bike company called Evans and Dodge in Windsor, Canada where they created the ball bearing bicycle which helped with people who couldn't afford cars, however they went away with the bike shop and decided to focus solely on the automotive industry. sold They built the very first Dodge in 1914, and the new car was instantly successful. When both brothers died in 1920 they had employed over 20,000 workers and produced 140,000 automobiles per year. Dodge remained …show more content…

Dodge’s contributions to the American automotive manufacturing industry keep setting the bar for other automotive manufacturers to keep up with. Their competition is heavy between Chevrolet and Ford. When Dodge unveiled the Charger and Challenger Hellcat featuring a screaming supercharged 6.2 Liter V8 that put out 707 horsepower at the crank in 2015. It set a new standard for muscle cars of the competitors, Dodge continued to make these Challenger and Chargers from 2015 to 2023. Not much has changed in those years of manufacturing, but it didn't have too. For those 8 years Ford and Chevy were still trying to one up the Challenger and Chargers in sales and on the street. Sales were so good that Dodge only had to make slight changes like different trim packages, and slightly more horsepower to keep things fresh. As of this year, 2023 Dodge is going out with a bang by releasing crazy trim packages for the Challenger and Charger like the jailbreak models pushing a whopping 807 horsepower to the crank that allow for anything to be customizable from the paint of the car to the stitching of seats. Dodge has just unveiled the brand new Challenger Demon 170, this is a 1025 crank horsepower street legal monster reaching 0-60 in just 1.66 seconds and producing the most amount of g-force acceleration in any production vehicle at an insane 2 lateral gs. They are only producing 3,300 of them and only 3,000 are going to be sold in the U.S. market with an MSRP of