Dodge is a United States-based brand of automobiles, minivans, and sport utility vehicles, manufactured by Chrysler Group LLC, a multinational manufacturer in a global strategic alliance with Fiat, in more than 60 different countries and territories worldwide. Founded as the Dodge Brothers Company in 1900 to supply parts and assemblies for Detroits growing auto industry, Dodge began making its own complete vehicles in 1915. The company in its modern era was sold to Daimler Benz group in1998 and from there on the company began making latest and next generation cars.