Dodge Aspen

The Dodge Aspen is one of 160 Dodge models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1976. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Dodge Aspen properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1970s were the decade the oil crises rewired the industry — emissions rules, safety bumpers and fuel economy suddenly mattered as much as horsepower, and Japanese manufacturers went global. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Lotus Cars Lotus Esprit, the Ford Ford Fiesta, the BMW BMW 3 Series — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Dodge Aspen reads like this: the record lists its engine as 225 CID Chrysler Slant-6 engine / Slant-6 / 318 CID Chrysler LA engine#318 V8 / LA V8 engine / V8 / 360 CID LA V8; kerb weight is recorded at 3200 lb (base coupe); drive goes through A230 3-speed manual transmission / manual / A904 3-speed TorqueFlite automatic transmission / automatic / A998/A999 3-speed TorqueFlite automatic / A833 4-speed OD manual transmiss; the layout is FR layout. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Dodge story

Within Dodge's own catalogue the Dodge Aspen sits alongside the Dodge 1500, the 1955 Dodge, the 1958 Dodge, the Deora. The record names the Plymouth Valiant / Dodge Dart as its predecessor and the Plymouth Reliant / Dodge Aries / Plymouth Reliant / Dodge 400/Chrysler LeBaron (1982) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Assembly is recorded at United States: Hamtramck, Michigan (Dodge Main Assembly) / United States: Newark, Delaware (Newark Assembly) / Mexico: Mexico City (Lago Alberto Assembly) / Colombia: Bogotá.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Dodge Aspen costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.