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The Fargo brand lived longer in a variety of countries under the Chrysler Corporation's badge engineering marketing approach.. Manufactured in Detroit at the Lynch Road facility, Dodge trucks were also offered under the Fargo (or DeSoto) names in most of Latin America, while in Europe and Asia, they were mainly built in Chrysler's Kew plant and sold under either the Fargo or DeSoto badge names.
1940 Fargo-badged truck at the Australian Army History Unit museum. After Dodge supplied the U.S. Army with its first four-wheel drive truck in 1934, more modern 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-tonners were developed, and 1,700 RF-40-X-4(USA) trucks were supplied in 1938, and 292 TF-40-X-4(USA) in 1939.
This is a list of vehicles that have been considered to be the result of badge engineering (), cloning, platform sharing, joint ventures between different car manufacturing companies, captive imports, or simply the practice of selling the same or similar cars in different markets (or even side-by-side in the same market) under different marques or model nameplates.
The 1940 Dodge / Fargo VC models formed the first production run in the U.S. military's G-505 range of half-ton, [nb 11] light four-wheel drive trucks. Created by Chrysler, based on Dodge's lightest, new for 1939, commercial half-ton TC models of "express" pickups, [ nb 12 ] and their carry-all, [ 37 ] the 1940 VC models formed the foundation ...
Popular in Britain, and also used in some export markets, the Dodge 500 was also sometimes badged as a DeSoto or Fargo. The trucks were sold as a cab and chassis and the operators arranged for the purchase of the bodies or trailers. Later this range came to be known as the "K"-series.
A near unlimited range of engines, transmissions, and rear axles were available for what was usually a built-to-order truck. The biggest diesel available was the Cummins V-903, a giant 903 cu in (14,794 cc) unit with a modest 289 hp (216 kW) max output.
In August, the game's release date was postponed to the first quarter of 2002. [6] On September 11, 2001, Infogrames announced that the game would be titled Test Drive Underground, with a planned release in March 2002 for the PlayStation 2. [7] However, the title soon reverted to its original name, and the planned release was missed again.
The Driver Proficiency Badge was established on 23 October 1942 to reward drivers of military transport vehicles, including trucks, cars and motorcycles, who served for specified periods in a war zone after 1 December 1940. [1]