DKW F9

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Prototype of the DKW F9

F9
Presentation year: 1939
Vehicle fair:
Class : Lower middle class
Body shape : limousine
Engine: Otto engine :
0.9 liters (21 kW)
Length: 4200 mm
Width: 1600 mm
Height: 1450 mm
Wheelbase: 2350 mm
Empty weight: 900 kg
Production model: IFA F9 , DKW F89

The DKW F9 was a car with a three - cylinder two-stroke engine and front-wheel drive from the DKW brand , which Auto Union wanted to bring out in 1940 as the successor to the DKW F8 model.

Around 1937, planning began for a successor to the successful F8 model with a transversely installed two-cylinder two- stroke engine . On the one hand, the previous model was no longer up to date; on the other hand, the introduction of the Volkswagen would fundamentally change the market situation for small vehicles. With the new car, DKW did not want to compete directly with VW, but rather it was to be positioned one class higher. It would be in the same class as the Opel Olympia , the Ford Taunus and the Hanomag 1.3 liter . The result of the designs was a car with a longitudinally installed three-cylinder engine, which continued the proven concept of front-wheel drive , but was significantly more powerful than the previous DKW front-wheel drive cars. The all-steel body made of sheet metal was designed by industrial designer Günther Mickwausch and had a drag coefficient ( c w value ) of 0.42 (for comparison: the Beetle has 0.44).

Before the war began, 20 prototypes of the F9 had been built. Since the economy in the National Socialist German Reich concentrated on armaments at the beginning of the Second World War , the F9 was no longer built in series.

After the war, production began in the GDR in 1950 as the IFA F9 . In the same year , Auto Union GmbH , newly founded in the Federal Republic of Germany, initially produced the DKW F89 with almost the same body, but the two-cylinder engine of the F8, hence the name ("F8-9"). There was a three-cylinder engine there only from 1953 in the successor model DKW F91 .

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