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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.

The fuel sipping 2013 Dodge Dart may have been the big show-stopped for the Chrysler Group at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show but perched proudly on a nearby turntable is the high performance Dodge Charger SRT8 – clad in yellow and black as part of the sexy Super Bee package as Detroit show-goers have their first chance to meet this awesome sedan.

The compact sedan market has become one of the most vital vehicle classes to the automakers doing business in North America and with the introduction of the 2013 Dodge Dart, the Chrysler Group will finally have a car that could be a major player in that segment – with a price of $15,995 making it less expensive than the bestselling models in that class.

The 2013 Dodge Dart is expected to make its grand debut at the 2012 North American International Auto Show tomorrow in Detroit but as has become the big trend this year – images and videos showing the sporty new C segment sedan have slipped onto the internet ahead of the big debut.