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Race fans in Las Vegas, Nevada were treated to the unveil of the latest in the new look for NASCAR, this one from Chrysler-Dodge with their new 2013 Charger Sprint Cup, whose looks are likely the best yet unveiled for the new-generation makeover in racing.

The Dodge Journey's starting manufacturer's suggested retail price of $18,995 makes the vehicle the most affordable seven-passenger crossover in America.

The Dodge NASCAR effort took a big hit yesterday when Ford Motor Company announced a new contract with Penske Racing, but with the introduction of the shadowy teaser picture on the right – its evident that Dodge Motorsports isn’t giving up on the NASCAR Sprint Cup program as they will unveil the new 2013 Dodge Charger Sprint Cup car on March 11th.

One sad fact that likely went unnoticed by most who read Chrysler’s February 2012 sales results was that there were zero Dodge Vipers sold last month – marking the first time in the last 10 years and possibly the first time since the Viper was introduced where there were absolutely none of the American supercars sold.

Just a few days after Penske Racing Dodge Chargers finished a disappointing 32nd and 34th in the 2012 Daytona 500, Ford Motor Company issued a statement proclaiming that Penske would be returning to Ford Motorsports for the 2013 season – both for the NASCAR Sprint Cup and NASCAR Nationwide Series.

February 2012 was a very good month for the Ford Mustang with sales almost doubling compared to the same month one year ago – allowing the Ford pony car to outsell the Chevrolet Camaro and the Dodge Challenger while claiming the title of top rear wheel drive performance car in the second month of the year.

The Chrysler Group has put live the first configuration website for the upcoming 2013 Dodge Dart but in an effort to generate buzz around the new C-segment sedan, Dodge has put up the Dart page before all of the fine print has been finalized – leading the company to attach interesting notes around the site like “preproduction model shown” and “For survey purposes only – prices and features subject to change”.

In September 2011, the Chrysler Group announced that their incredible Dodge Viper ACR had reclaimed the production car record on Germany’s famed Nürburgring with a time of just 7 minutes and 12 seconds and yesterday, the SRT division issued a video of the race-only Dodge Viper ACR-X roaring around the track known as Green Hell in just 7 minutes and 3 seconds – making it one of the quickest cars to ever lap ‘The Ring’.

Chrysler and all of the Chrysler Group's vehicle brands have come in dead last in JD Power and Associates Reliability Survey.

The 2013 Dodge Viper is set to make is grand debut at the 2012 New York Auto Show in early April but the folks at Drive SRT have offered a look at the three logos that have graced the nose of the American super car leading up to the full debut in a few months.

Two potentially hazardous defects would make life a little more difficult for law enforcement.

The sales numbers are in for January 2012 and as has generally been in the case over the past year, the Chevrolet Camaro very comfortably outsold the Ford Mustang and the Dodge Challenger in the first month of the New Year.

The Chrysler Group announced yesterday that they will be adding 1,800 jobs at their Belvidere Assembly Plant to prepare for the production of the 2013 Dodge Dart along with meeting the high demand for the other two vehicles currently built in Belvidere, the Jeep Compass and Jeep Patriot.

When the Dodge Charger was reintroduced as a full sized four door sedan for the 2006 model year, some Mopar faithful grumbled about the addition of the “extra doors” but as the new Charger powers through its second generation with a sleek new exterior design – the only people who could question whether the 2012 Charger SRT8 car is deserving of the Charger name are those who haven’t been behind the wheel.

The Chrysler Group was one of the strongest automakers doing business in the USA through 2011 and as the first month of 2012 has come to an end – the smallest of the Detroit Big 3 continued their stunning success with an improvement of over 44% compared to the same month last year.

The Chrysler Group hopes that the new 2013 Dodge Dart will meet the same level of success as the Dodge Neon that left the lineup years ago and a major part of the Neon’s ongoing legend is the high performance SRT variant – a trimline that many believe will grace the new Dart in the next year.

Today at the Chrysler Group’s Mopar division celebration of their 75th anniversary, one of the new Mopar-modified vehicles introduced was the 2013 Dodge Dart GTS 210 Tribute – paying homage to the high performance Dart GTS of the 1960s with the sleek new compact Dart sedan sporting a unique look and improved performance.

We have known for over a year now that the spring/summer or 2012 would bring us the newest version of the legendary Dodge Viper and today, the Chrysler Group issued the first official teaser image of the 2013 SRT Viper leading up to the planned debut of the American supercar at the 2012 New York Auto Show.

Yesterday marked the end of the 2012 Rolex 24 at Daytona which for the first time in 10 years featured a Dodge Viper in the field but sadly, when the race drew to an end the mighty Viper failed to live up to the success seen by Viper entries over a decade ago due to some early mechanical issues.

In 2008, Devon Motorworks was founded with the dream of building a truly unique American supercar based heavily on the Dodge Viper but early in 2011, it was announced that the company was going out of business and this past weekend, one of the two Dodge Viper-based Devon GTX supercars sold at the Barrett Jackson Auto Auction in Scottsdale Arizona.