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Apparently, the Dukes of Hazzard collection a accomplished Italian sports car. The General Lee may anon be an Alfa Romeo.

The U.K.’s AutoCar reports, “Dodge models could be rebadged in Europe as Alfa Romeos as allotment of Fiat’s restructuring affairs for Chrysler.”

Most of the belief apropos approaching artefact lineups has confused the added way. Autoblog notes, “With the ink still wet on the Fiat/Chrysler deal, abounding auto sites…have had a bit of fun prognosticating which Fiat/Alfa models would be rebadged as Chrysler products.” But few had any clue that Fiat ability move some of Chrysler’s models to Europe.

According to AutoCar, “Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne has appear he sees the two brands as administration the aforementioned amount character and he aims to accept a action in abode for what to do with the brands by the end of the month.” Marchionne told AutoCar “Dodge is the American beef car, while Alfa Romeo is the European beef car.”

That branding may bang abounding Americans as unusual, aback Alfas are primarily remembered as small, admirable and somewhat capricious sports cars. Dodge, meanwhile, is accepted in the U.S. for its band of huge Ram trucks and the array of accessible beef cars that Bo and Luke acclimated to exhausted Roscoe aback to Uncle Jessie’s farm.

So what Dodge articles ability pop up in Italy? Autoblog reports, “The alone models that are acceptable to be of absorption are the Charger, Viper and Challenger, and there is a adventitious that the Viper could anon acquisition itself alfresco of the Chrysler portfolio altogether. The Charger and Challenger are acceptable too big for Europe as well, and would apparently alone advertise in baby numbers.”

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