Dodge New Value

The Dodge New Value (or: Dodge DU series) was a car, the Dodge brand in Detroit, which was presented as a successor to the standard model / Special / Deluxe in January 1935.

The car had - like its predecessor standard Dodge, Dodge and Dodge Special Deluxe - a side-valve six-cylinder engine with 3569 cc, 87 bhp which carrie at 3600 rpm. Single-plate dry clutch, three-speed gearbox and rear wheel drive vehicle also had this. Upon request, was a semi-automatic (automatic vacuum operated clutch) available.

The New Value was available with two wheelbases: Most bodies were there on the chassis with 2946 mm wheelbase, the 7-seat sedan and the 5-seater "Caravan" sedan was 3251 mm wheelbase. The bodies had been revised: A narrow, inclined to the rear grille and a more sloping windshield left by the 92.5 mm lowered vehicles appear more streamlined. As a new all-steel superstructure was a 2 - or 4-door sedan, each available in "standard version" (without the boot) and "Touring Version" (with attached rear hatchback and trunk). In addition were two different 2-door coupe (Business and R / S), and a 2-door convertible on the short chassis. R / S Coupe and Cabriolet, there were either 2 or 4 seats. The chassis was too long without bodies, but with all the mechanical components supplied, so that customers can have their own farmers make of car body structures.

Of technical innovations offered the car has a launch control (semi-automatic choke), power steering and opening front windscreen.