Detroit Preview: 2013 Dodge Dart Breaks Cover

by Jack Baruth

Published: January 7th, 2012

detroit preview 2013 dodge dart breaks cover

Somebody broke an embargo somewhere. It wasn’t TTAC: everybody knows better than to send us this stuff. So here’s the Dart, and the initial details are reasonably encouraging for Mopar fans. Did somebody say Turbo? Did somebody say manual transmission with all three engines?

Somebody did. Base engine is the 160 horsepower two-liter which is currently available in the Compass. Six-speed manual or six-speed auto. Next up is the 1.4-liter Multiair Turbo. 160 horsepower, but more torque than the two-liter. Six-speed manual or six-speed dual-clutch. Then there’s a 184-horsepower, 2.4L normally-aspirated four-cylinder for the R/T. Six-speed manual (yes!) or six-speed automatic.

Length is 183.9 inches, which is pretty darn big for a compact car.

We will be covering the Dart as it appears at Detroit.

Jack Baruth

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VelocityRed3 on Jan 09, 2012

My first (new) car was a 1990 Dodge Shadow, that I bought in July of 1990. They have come a long, long way ;-)

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SCE to AUX on Jan 09, 2012

That car's certainly a 'challenger' to the Elantra, in the looks department, anyway.

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