It's a modern front-driver, with independent suspension, four-wheel-disc brakes, your choice of three high-revving, small-displacement four-cylinder engines, ranging from 1.4 to 2.4 liters, and three different transmissions, including a NINE-speed automatic arriving next year. The first real progeny of the Fiat-Chrysler marriage, it's not anything like the rear-wheel drive barge of sainted memory, with their drum brakes and loafing 'slant six' engines. (Wikimedia)įirst off, this new Dart is a thoroughly modern car. The 2013 Dodge Dart debuted at the North American Internation Auto Show. Knowing that you've long sung the praises of the Dodge Darts of yesteryear - you know, the 1960s and 1970s, ones from back when you guys were merely old - I figured you'd want to hear what they've done to your song. Because I just got back from the Detroit show - the North American International Automobile Show, to give it its official title - and they were showing something there in the Cobo Hall called the 2013 Dodge Dart. Hey, Tom, Ray, are you sitting down? Maybe you better.Ĭheck that, perhaps you ought to make that lying down. Tom Magliozzi reveals the contents of his 1963 Dodge Dart's trunk.
