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Dodge Hornet: 2011 compact car rumors

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Dodge Hornet: 2011 compact car rumors

When the Dodge Caliber was dropped in 2011, rumor had a new Fiat-based car based on a Fiat taking on the Caliber name. Chrysler applied for trademarks on Hornet, Dodge Dart, Dodge Duster, and even the frankly odd Dodge Camber.

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The car was reportedly in early pilot production in late October 2011.
As early as 2009, this car was planned on extended Fiat C-EVO dimensions and the Fiat electronics network, along with a retuned Chrysler World Gas Engine and the 1.4 liter turbocharged Fiat engine.

Reliable source oh2o predicted what we got in the Dodge Dart with a surprising level of detail, getting nothing wrong. With oh2o and our own thoughts, we estimated 160 hp for the 1.4, and 185 hp for the 2.4, with 170 lb-ft of torque (a tad optimistic); we guessed "a bit over 32 mpg" on the 2.4 and were right, as it came in at 33 mpg. "PhantomSpazz" confirmed numerous other points of appearance and pricing that turned out to be accurate.

The name Dodge Hornet was incorrectly predicted by Allpar long in advance. "duster92" wrote: "The SRT engineers occasionally hold webchats. Before a recent webchat, the engineers stipulated that they could not talk about the Hornet SRT4."

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J. White saw spy shots of an obvious mule with a Caliber body shell in May 2010. The stance and length looked similar to those of the Lancia Delta. (Body shells on mules serve to hide the car underneath, and look normal from a reasonable distance so average people don't see anything unusual).

Dan Minick and MadWasp believed the Hornet will be built in Belvidere, Illinois, which is being expanded with a 550,000 square foot body shop. This turned out to be correct.

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The "Hornet," of course, turned out to be the 2013 Dodge Dart.

Dodge Hornet concept and past Dodge Hornet production car plans

The first new use of the Hornet name - famously used by Hudson, and less famously by AMC - was the 2006 Dodge Hornet concept car, a subcompact; company officials said it was to be a Nissan Cube variant "based on a unique Chrysler concept and design."

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The Dodge Hornet was powered by a Chrysler 1.6 liter supercharged engine with 170 hp and 165 lb-ft (224 Nm) of torque (both at 4,000 rpm).

Following the original Nissan Cube-based concept, rumors started floating that the final Hornet would be sharing the basic chassis of the new Mercedes A-Class, with joint engineering by Chrysler and Mercedes. Then Automotive News claimed that the Hornet would be engineered in China by Chery, bolstered by independent sources who claimed that Chrysler engineers had been sent to China to work on it.

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