The new Dodge Dart is a great looking little Italo-American sedan, but it doesn't have much to offer the enthusiast. Hoping to remedy this, Dodge unveiled a new Dart model at the Detroit show today with a bit more power and a sportier suspension. It's called the Dart GT.

Here they are, the finalists for the honor of 2013 Green Car of the Year.

They've barely made it to dealer lots, but it appears an intoxicated 16 year old has already managed to crash a 2013 Dodge Dart into a house in Rochester Hills, Mi.

"It is eating me alive. Literally. It is killing me. Literally." I hope those are the first words of nerd/sex/techblogger Jen Friel's write up of the Dodge Dart, which she's currently in Austin reviewing on an all-expense paid trip from Chrysler, and not just the painfully hyperbolic moaning of an oversharing blogger.

Dodge has announced the pricing for the 2013 Dodge Dart. In base trim, pricing starts at $15,995, the up-spec Limited is $19,995, and the top-spec R/T is $22,495. Remember to add the $950 destination fee to each of those for their real-world prices.

Rallycross takes competition rally cars, adds a ton of power, and puts them in wheel-to-wheel racing. It is a videogame come to life. Thus we're excited to see SRT Motorsport's new 600-horsepower, four-wheel-drive rallycross Dodge Dart in the flesh and with Travis Pastrana at the wheel.

Automakers knows there's big money in the aftermarket, especially for compact cars that on their own rarely make much on the sticker price. No surprise then that Mopar's showing off what they can do, creating a 210 horsepower factory-tuned Dodge Dart. They call it the Dodge Dart GTS 210 Tribute.

The world's first introduction to the Dodge Neon was a simple TV commercial that exclaimed "Hi!" Our introduction to the 2013 Dodge Dart at the Detroit Auto Show was an admission that, since the Neon's introduction, the company hasn't done much in the compact space to get excited about.

The many great Itailan-Americans who helped build this country would be furious to discover that their culture is now represented by the cast of Jersey Shore. Perhaps the 2013 Dodge Dart and its combination of Italian and American influences can undo some of the damage with what's possibly the best mixture of the two…

This is it — the 2013 Dodge Dart, the new Alfa Romeo-based compact car that'll say arrivederci to the Caliber when it's fully unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show in just two days. But we knew all that. What we didn't know is what it'd look like. Until now.