Start with what the Dodge 30-35 is: a 2-door touring / 2-door roadster with gasoline engine, built from 1914 to 1916, as the assembly line was turning motoring into an industry. What it meant takes a little longer.
Where it came from
The Dodge 30-35 was the first car produced by Dodge, introduced on November 14, 1914 and manufactured in Detroit, Michigan. The car had an L-head inline-four engine of 212-cubic-inch (3.5 L) displacement, which had a power output of 35 hp (26 kW). The rear wheels were driven by a leather cone clutch and a three-speed gearbox with middle gear.
The rear wheels were braked mechanically. In the short model year of 1914 the only body offered was a four-door tourer (whose driver “door” could not be opened); from January 1915, a two-door two-seat roadster was also available. From this point on, electric lighting was also standard equipment. When the series was replaced in July 1916 by the Model 30, a total of 116,400 copies were made, of which 150 were also made by the United States Army and others.
Under the skin
The engine is gasoline engine. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
In the Dodge line-up the Dodge 30-35 has a clear place: it handed the line to the Dodge Model 30; the factory was Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly, Detroit, Michigan. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Alfa Romeo A.L.F.A 15-20 HP, the Delahaye type 32 coupé-chauffeur, the Alfa Romeo A.L.F.A. 40/60 GP. Nearby in the Dodge catalogue sit the Dodge 1500 and the 1955 Dodge.
Owning one today
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Dodge 30-35 has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.