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Like an Easter Egg hunt - if you find the Dodge History presentation in your language why not share with Caliworld.

There are different versions of the company presentation, flash, with TV, slideshow
but the basic idea of through the decades is the same.

Version 1 - ENGLISH . GERMAN . Chinese

Version 2 - FRENCH .Danish.Dutch

Version 3 - Czech


SEVEN so far - good luck !

Aleks; said:
118705 There is a feature on the company site with information about Dodge Brothers motors.

It can be hard to find so these are the links ..

IN ENGLISH or also IN GERMAN or latest find IN FRENCH la légende + Czech + Danish + Dutch + Chinese

The time line covers the events of each decade, and there are "Dodge TV" video clips you can open.

(The red arrows above the time line are drop down boxes with text on the subject and some have QT Movies.)
 
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My parents arrived in Canada in 1924 from Finland so I thought I'd add this.

A version of the Horizon/Ommni was made in Finland and sold as a Talbalt Horizon. No word of the Dodge GLH version, which went like HELL, being built there.


Expansion into Europe

In the 1960s Chrysler expanded into Europe, attaining a majority interest in the British Rootes Group in 1964, Simca of France and Barreiros of Spain, to form Chrysler Europe. For the Rootes Group one outcome of this take over was the launch of the Hillman Avenger in 1970 (breifly sold in the US as the Plymouth Cricket), which sold in Britain alongside the rear-engined Imp and the Hunter. Due to the industrial unrest that was rife in Britain during the 1970s the former Rootes Group got into severe financial difficulties. The Simca and Barreiros divisions were more successful, but in the end the various problems were overwhelming and the firm gained little from these ventures. Chrysler sold in 1978 these assets to PSA Peugeot Citroën, which in turn sold quickly the British and Spanish truck production lines to Renault of France .



More successfully, at this same time the company helped create the muscle car market in the U.S., first by producing a street version of its Hemi racing engine and then by introducing a legendary string of affordable but high-performance vehicles such as the Plymouth GTX, Plymouth Road Runner, and Dodge Charger. The racing success of several of these models on the NASCAR circuit burnished the company's reputation for engineering.
The 1970s brought both success and crisis. The aging but stalwart compacts saw a rush of sales as demand for smaller cars crested after the first gas crisis of 1973. However, an expensive investment in an all-new full-size lineup went largely to waste as the new 1974 vehicles appeared almost precisely as gasoline prices reached a peak and large-car sales collapsed. 1974 would also mark the end of the Barracuda (and the similar Dodge Challenger) after the redesigned ponycars introduced for 1970 had failed to attract buyers in the shrinking market segment. At mid-decade, the company scored a conspicuous success with its first entry in the personal luxury car market, the Chrysler Cordoba. However, the introduction of the Dodge Aspen/Plymouth Volare twins in 1976 did not repeat the success of the discontinued Valiant/Dodge Dart line, and the company had delayed in producing a domestic entry in the now important subcompact market. Problems were multiplying abroad as well, as Chrysler Europe essentially collapsed in 1977. It was offloaded to Peugeot the following year, ironically just after having helped design the new Plymouth Horizon and Dodge Omni, on which the increasingly-desperate company was pinning its hopes. Shortly thereafter, Chrysler Australia, which was now producing a rebadged Japanese Mitsubishi Galant, was sold to Mitsubishi Motors. The subcompact Horizon was just beginning to reach the U.S. market when the second gas crisis struck, devastating sales of Chrysler's larger cars and trucks, and the company had no strong compact line to fall back on. Later the Horizon was also produced and developed in Finland and marketed in Scandinavia as Talbot Horizon. After the Peugeot bought Talbot and the new version of Horizon was named as Peugeot 309.

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Daimler-Chrysler purchased back the rights to the Dodge brand name in 2002 for use outside North America from Renault and the Turkish licensee ASKAM for trucks.
 
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