DKW F89
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The DKW Meisterklasse, also known as the DKW F89, is a compact front-wheel drive saloon manufactured by Auto Union GmbH between 1950 and 1954. It was the first passenger car to be manufactured by the
DKW F89 2-door saloon
The estate conversion, offered from late 1951, made extensive use of timber.
While Auto Union built the F89 in West Germany, the Zwickau plant that had passed to the Soviet-controlled GDR was producing the IFA F9. 30,000 or more IFA F9s had been produced initially at Zwickau and subsequently at Eisenach by 1956. Both western and eastern cars were closely based on the DKW F9 prototype first exhibited in 1939.
IFA F9
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The IFA F9, subsequently rebadged as the EMW 309, is a compact saloon manufactured under the auspices of the Russian and East German states between 1949 or 1950 and 1956. It was initially built at Zwi
DKW F89
…in 1945, Zwickau's new controllers also built their own version of the DKW F9 prototype, and indeed the eastern version was put into production as the IFA F9, probably shortly before the Düsseldorf built F89. The F89 was not the first vehicle built by Auto Union after the war. That honor goes to the DKW F89…
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While the Zwickau plant was producing the IFA F9, in the west Auto Union launched the DKW F89 derived from the same prewar DKW F9 prototype. At this stage, however, the western car was still powered by a two-cylinder 684 cc engine.
IFA F9 cabriolet
IFA F9 rear