Listing snapshot
| Spotted | October 2022 |
| Asking price | Not recorded |
| Location | New Jersey (dealer) |
| Listed on | Cars.com, dealer |
| Drivetrain | 1.3-liter four-cylinder, automatic, front-wheel drive |
| Status | Ad expired. This page is our archive of the listing. |
We spotted this 1995 Ford Aspire in October 2022, listed on Cars.com by a dealer in New Jersey. The asking price did not make it into our original post, and the ad has expired. We keep the record anyway, because a clean, two-owner Aspire is an unusual thing to find for sale.
What this car was
A green hatchback with a grey interior, which the dealer said had come up from South Carolina. The photos from our original post are no longer available. According to the listing:
- Two owners
- Green exterior, grey interior
- 1.3-liter four-cylinder with an automatic
- Power windows, CD player with AM/FM radio, and air conditioning
- No rust
- Fully serviced before sale
- A $149 documentation fee on top of the price, with delivery available at extra cost
Most Aspires were used as cheap transport and then thrown away, so finding one with two owners and no rust is the main point of interest here. A southern car is more likely to have a solid underside, which matters far more than anything else on a car that is worth so little to fix.
A little Aspire history
Ford sold the Aspire in North America from the 1994 to 1997 model years as the replacement for the Festiva. Kia built it in South Korea, and it came as a three-door or five-door hatchback with a 1.3-liter four-cylinder and a manual or automatic. It was Ford’s cheapest car in the US at the time. Our earlier write-up listed a trip computer and four trim levels, including a GT; neither was offered on the Aspire.
Today the Aspire is mostly remembered as a footnote between the Festiva and the Fiesta’s later return to the US. Survivors in this condition turn up rarely, which is why we keep the record of one when we see it.
More cars from the archive
- Every Ford Aspire we’ve spotted, with asking prices
- 1998 Ford Escort SE, another Ford
- 1997 Ford F-150 Lariat SuperCab, another Ford
- 1991 Ford Thunderbird, another Ford
- 1992 Ford Probe GL, another Ford
