Mopar
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| legal form | Limited Liability Company |
| founding | 1937 |
| Seat | Auburn Hills, United States
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| Branch | Automotive industry |
| Website | www.mopar.com |
Mopar is an automotive supplier that belongs to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and was founded by the Chrysler Group. The in English for "motor parts" ( Mo tor par standing ts) portmanteau word originally referred to one of the Chrysler Corporation created company, which was to take over exclusive parts supply Chrysler associated automakers. Today Mopar also produces for other companies as well as parts for vehicle tuning and motorsport .
history
At the end of the 1920s, the Chrysler group comprised four automobile brands: Chrysler (including the top models Imperial ), Plymouth , DeSoto and, since 1928, Dodge (Imperial was only run as a separate brand from 1955). In order to save costs, the different vehicle models should share certain parts and assemblies, especially the engines should be matched across manufacturers. To this end, the Chrysler Motor Parts Corporation was founded in 1929, a central supplier for spare parts that were required by all subsidiaries; later the short form "MoPar" was officially introduced.
In the 1950s, Mopar took over the development and construction of racing vehicles, with a particular focus on the NASCAR racing series and the tuning of Chrysler's series engines. When the muscle car era began in the 1960s , Mopar's spare parts division also offered tuning parts that could be purchased from authorized dealers. The name Mopar was originally intended to be used in 1937 as a name for a line of anti-freeze products. The name stayed and evolved to denote everything that came from Chrysler , be it cars or parts. Of course, the expression only became very popular later through other products. So "Mopar" slowly became the unofficial collective term for all Chrysler vehicle models that are assigned to the muscle cars, for example the Dodge Charger , Plymouth Road Runner or Dodge Challenger .
"Mopar" later crept into the USA as an unofficial collective term for all car models of the Chryslers concern; In this way, confusion was avoided that "Chrysler" as a term for the entire group and as the name of the car brand "Chrysler" could bring. Thus, Mopar vehicles can be read in many publications, although vehicles were never manufactured under this brand name.
A common misconception is that the Group's engines were developed and / or manufactured exclusively by Mopar. You can often read about a Mopar Hemi V8 engine , for example . The fact is that Chrysler and Dodge developed and manufactured the engines. At times there were even different engines of the same cubic capacity from both manufacturers on the market. The reason for the spread of this error is also the use of the term “Mopar” instead of (correctly) “Chrysler” in the company's history. This is probably due to the fact that the famous HEMI engine was initially established as a racing engine and also used by its own racing team, before it was finally available in series vehicles in its classic form as the 426cui HEMI from 1966.
