Dodge Nitro RT 2007

The Dodge emblem - which isn't anyt any stranger to growing progressive automobile merchandise and functions - is spicing up the mid-length SUV section with the 2007 Dodge Nitro, a brand new sport-software car whose formidable and competitive styling suits its dynamic overall performance.

"The Dodge Nitros styling promises some thing extra; that little some thing mid-length shoppers are nonetheless looking for - mindset," stated George Murphy, Senior Vice President - Global Marketing. "In addition, the Dodge Nitro gives many functions that aren't regular of a mid-length SUV, which include V-6 engines, 20-inch tires and chrome-clad aluminum wheels and a overall performance suspension."The 2007 Dodge Nitro is the primary mid-length sport-software car for Dodge and enhances the manufacturers cutting-edge lineup of cars, minivans, trucks, business cars and a significant SUV."Being the primary mid-length SUV for the emblem, Dodge Nitro needed to personify the formidable, effective and street-clever mindset of Dodge," stated Murphy. "In a global of often bland SUVs, the 2007 Dodge Nitro has the layout, engineering and overall performance to encourage clients and ignite the mid-length SUV marketplace."

Three fashions are to be had: Dodge Nitro, Dodge Nitro SLT and Dodge Nitro R/T. Available at the Dodge Nitro and Dodge Nitro SLT is a 3.7-liter SOHC V-6 engine. It produces 210 hp (157 kW) @ five,two hundred rpm and 235 lb.-ft. (319 N•m) @ four,000 rpm. The Dodge Nitro R/T functions a brand new four.0-liter V-6 engine that promises 255 hp (a hundred ninety kW) @ five,800 rpm and 275 lb.-ft. torque (360 N•m) @ four,000 rpm. Standard at the Dodge Nitro R/T and elective at the Nitro SLT is a brand new overall performance suspension and 20-inch tires and chrome-clad aluminum wheels, imparting overall performance-orientated drivers with fun-to-pressure managing and a company ride.

Three transmissions - one guide and automatic - may be offered. The Dodge Nitro comes with a trendy six-velocity guide or elective four-velocity automatic. The Dodge Nitro SLT has a trendy four-velocity automatic. The Dodge Nitro R/T has a trendy five-velocity automatic. All U.S. fashions provide 4x2 and 4x4 capability. The new mid-length SUV boasts extremely good acceleration, braking, managing and towing potential of five,000 lbs. whilst nicely equipped.

Standard at the Dodge Nitro SLT and Dodge Nitro R/T is a brand new Chrysler Group feature, the LOAD N GO TM shipment ground that slides 18 inches rearward for clean and handy loading and unloading of packages, and may keep as much as four hundred pounds. It is manufactured from a heavy-responsibility plastic for clean cleaning. A compact software desk is an to be had choice at the Dodge Nitro version.

The Dodge Nitro additionally consists of many trendy protection functions, which include Electronic Stability Program, Anti-lock Brake System, Electronic Roll Mitigation and side-curtain air bags.

Available alternatives encompass a DVD-primarily based totally navigation machine with visitors records update, rear-seat DVD enjoyment machine, AM/FM/6-disc/DVD/MP3 audio with top class audio system with a subwoofer, far flung start, UConnect TM , and Sirius Satellite Radio.

"With its overall performance-orientated four.0-liter engine and LOAD N GO shipment ground, the Dodge Nitro keeps the manufacturers records of making new and game-converting merchandise and functions," stated Murphy.

There become the 1992 Dodge Viper, for example. The outrageously sculpted and brutishly effective sports activities automobile grew to become heads, palpitated hearts and have become the icon of the emblem.

In 1994 the big-rig layout of the Dodge Ram pickup truck immediately made each different pickup truck in its magnificence boring.

And the Stow n Go TM seating machine, brought withinside the 2005 version yr Dodge Caravan and Chrysler Town & Country minivans, reasserted Chrysler Groups management role in that marketplace."Just like the ones innovations, the 2007 Dodge Nitro will reinvigorate its section, the mid-length sport-software marketplace," stated Murphy.

Chrysler Group formerly introduced that the Dodge emblem will extend to Europe and quantity markets overseas, and the Dodge Nitro may be a part of that expansion. The car may be to be had in markets out of doors North America, in each left- and right-hand pressure, through the primary region of 2007.

The 2007 Dodge Nitro may be constructed on the Toledo (Ohio) North Assembly Plant along the Jeep® Liberty. Dodge Nitro will arrive in U.S. dealerships later in 2006 as a 2007 version yr car.

With a U.S. marketplace percentage of 6.nine percentage, Dodge is the fifth-biggest nameplate withinside the United States and the eighth-biggest nameplate withinside the automobile industry. In 2004, Dodge bought extra than 1.four million cars withinside the worldwide marketplace. Dodge keeps to guide the minivan marketplace section with a 20 percentage marketplace percentage withinside the United States. In the truck marketplace, Dodge has an 18 percentage marketplace percentage. In the automobile marketplace, Dodge has a four.five percentage marketplace percentage. The Dodge emblem will arrive in Europe and different quantity markets out of doors of North America beginning in 2006.