Start with what the Dodge Model 30 is: a 4-door Touring car / tourer / 2-door Roadster (car) / roadster / 4-door Sedan (automobile) / sedan / 2-door coupe / 2-door screen-sided pickup truck / 2-door panel truck with gasoline engine, built from 1916 to 1922, as the assembly line was turning motoring into an industry. What it meant takes a little longer.
How it came about
The Dodge 30 was an American car produced by Dodge, the commercial version of which was known as the Dodge Series One. Introduced in 1916, the Model 30 was a development of the company's earlier 30-35, and remained in production until 1922. The Model 30 and Series One were used extensively by the US Army during the First World War.
The hardware
The engine is gasoline engine. On the scales it comes to NNN -. Drive goes through a 3F1R. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 114 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Dodge line-up the Dodge Model 30 has a clear place: it replaced the Dodge 30-35; it handed the line to the Dodge Series 116. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Tatra 10, the Mitsubishi Model A, the British Motor Corporation Morris Cowley. Its Dodge stablemates include the Dodge 1500 and the 1955 Dodge.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Dodge Model 30 — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.