all about dodge avenger

The Dodge Avenger is a mid-size auto that would acceptable go absolutely disregarded if it weren't for its use in rental car fleets. 
 
Competing with abiding leaders like the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry, as

able-bodied as hard-charging and aggressive second-tier entrants like the Ford Fusion, Hyundai and Kia Optima.
 
See our abounding analysis of the 2014 Dodge Avenger ambit for added information, including options, prices, gas-mileage ratings, and specifications. 
 
Launched in 2008 to alter the old Stratus sedan, the Avenger has been steadily adapted to accomplish it added aggressive afterward Chrysler's 2009 defalcation and takeover by Fiat. Its autonomous was absolutely renewed in 2010, it got a fresh and added able V-6 agent in 2011, and a fresh six-speed automated manual in 2012. The car's after most archetypal year is acceptable to be 2014, afterwards which it will be replaced by an absolutely fresh archetypal from the growing Chrysler-Fiat stable. 
 
The Avenger's adventurous administration camouflages an accustomed auto that struggles to attempt with added anesthetic competitors. Historically, abstracts and body affection accept been an affair for the Avenger, and its assurance ratings accept consistently lagged the competition. In ISIS blast tests, the Avenger array "good" ratings for advanced and ancillary protection; the newest models of the Dodge Avenger accept becoming a four-star appraisement in federal tests. 
 
The Avenger fabricated its 2008 admission with a best of three engines: a abject 2.4-liter four-cylinder came with abject cars, while higher-priced versions could be outfitted with either a 2.7-liter V-6 or a 3.5-liter V-6. All-wheel drive was offered for a abbreviate time, but has been deleted as Avenger sales accept dropped.
 
For the 2010 archetypal year, the Avenger alternate with aloof two power train options. The 173-hp four is amid the atomic adorable four-cylinders in the Avenger's class, which includes the Ford Fusion and Volkswagen Jett and the Hyundai Sonata. The abate V-6 agent has been dropped, abrogation the front-drive Avenger with its top agent best as the 235-hp V-6. Fuel abridgement ranges from 21 mpg city, 30 highway, with the four-cylinder to 16/27 mpg with the V-6. The 2011 Avenger got Chrysler's fresh 3.6-liter Poetaster V-6 engine, authoritative 283 horsepower, and it's a all-inclusive advancement in clarification and responsiveness. Likewise, the mid-range XT four-cylinder model, for 2012, gets a six-speed automated that helps accomplish the best of the four-cylinder engine. The Avenger was agitated over for one added archetypal year into 2013, with alone a few accessory changes and a few fresh options, including an added Rally Appearance amalgamation with dark-tinted head lamps and a body-color grille. 
 
Dodge for a abbreviate time abashed its own bazaar with a assembly of fresh trim lines, abandoning them afterwards aloof one archetypal year. For instance, the 2011 Avenger was offered as the Express, Heat, Main street and Lux, while the 2012 Avenger was offered in SE, Rallye, R/T and Lux trims. 
 
The nameplate of Avenger absolutely started activity as a two-door auto congenital on Mitsubishi underpinnings in an Illinois bulb run by the Japanese automaker. That car, awash from 1995 to 2000, offered handsome curve that bearded its origins as a Mitsubishi Gallant--or, in Chrysler terms, a Dodge Stratus sedan.