Very interesting video. I had one DKW F94 from the early 60's, build here in Argentina with german parts. It was a gift from my parents for my twenty-one birthday. Lovely, lovely little car. 🥰

Well done. Had no idea DKW had that body design as early as 1941? (!) VERY advanced shape for that time!

I lived in Vienna, Austria, as a kid in 1968-69 and saw lots of DKW 900s on the roads. I was quite the car nut at the time. Unfortunately, my Dad was a Volkswagen buff and he called every DKW he saw "Stinkauto." I was too young to understand his explanation of two vs. four stroke engines but it did look like there was more blue smoke coming out of the DKW exhausts. Today I think the DKWs are very beautiful. The simplicity of the two stroke engine has a lot going for it. But what I love most is that beautiful sound that makes me think there is a formula one engine under the hood!

I guess you're coming to that, but I find it hilarious the DKW set-up with the engine mounted longitudinally in front of the front axle and the gearbox behind the transaxle becoming the default Audi set-up to this day. It is common these days talking about "brand DNA", like VW owned Bentley would share any DNA with any Bentley before it? While on reality it shares a DNA with every Audi coming before it back to the DKW F9.

flawless commentary that goes beyond others who just read out the same things on wikipedia. b sport is the best channel!😁

Nice video, thanks. I seem to remember that Ferdinand Porche stole a great deal of the dessign for the VW from Tatra i Checkoslowakia, as he moved back to Germany..

The Audi Front UW (Turned Wanderer) had the same drivetrain layout as the later Citroen DS, which was in fact a mid engine design with very good weight distribution and road handling!

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My grandmother learned to drive in a DKW F89

Sixty years ago I bought my very first car. It was a second hand IFA F9, one of few cars available for a poor Swedish student. It saved my first years as a car owner.

Great video, high quality and informative. Thanks so much for this.

Great presentation! Very interesting as well!

I was born a long time ago in Tehran. I remember the DKWs with their rwo stroke engines, were used as Taxis. The other one that later completely disappeared, was the Mercedes 170, yes the one with the doors opening the wrong way, and full plush red leather seats.

Great video thank you .😀👍

DKW BEAUTIFUL CAR

Schöner Beitrag.Fehlt eigentlich nur,das die Produktion des F9 von Zwickau auch nach Eisenach ging und dort überarbeitet als F9 / EMW 309 weiterproduziert wurde.Mit diesem Fahrzeug hat man den Zweitakter übernehmen müssen,der weiterentwickelt bis 1990 in dem Wartburg lief.Der F9/ EMW 309 war der Vorgänger des bekannten Wartburg 311.Mein vergessener Superstar ist ein EMW 309 BJ 1954 und steht in meiner Garage😊

A fascinating video, thank you!

Great vid!

"DKW, das kleine Wunder, fährt bergauf so schnell wie runter." DKW slogan.

EXCELLENT VIDEO

Thanks for the history lesson. That was fascinating.

When I was growing up there was a DKW down the court. 2-stroke engine and the tail was 'bout 8"-10" higher than the front.

👍👌👏 Simply fantastic! This is definitely a very well done documentation/documentary! Congrats! Although I'm a German, I absolutely never liked the VW beetle (nearly hate it). Inside the cabin it always stank for gasoline etc.p.p.. The 1930s design was outdated already after the WW2. On the other hand I always adored the gorgeous DKW 1000 SP or 3=6. But even as I a child in the 1960s and 70s not much DKW could be seen. I'm eagerly looking forward to watch the second part. Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and health.

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An excellent and informative video.

What a splendid video!

I CANT BELIEVE IT! before watching this video i never knew about the existance of the DKW F9. today i randomly saw one 🤯 it was just parked in fron of some workshop and i was abled to have a closer look!

Wenn man den DKW mit seinen damaligen Konkurrenten vergleicht, dann hatten sie schon damals Frontantrieb und lagen damit besser auf der Straße, gerade bei Nässe und Schnee. Der Zweitakter war damals absolut zeitgemäß. Es war einfach ein fortschrittliches Auto.

In Poland, we used to say that the DKW was made of "dykta, klej, i woda", hence DKW. In English, "cardboard, glue, and water."

Phantastic design and road performance, ... however the 2-stroke engine was an imposition

Gut .vielan Dank. Grüsen aus Australien.

Thanks for this

Influence: the chassis of the DKW F9 was used until 1991 for the Wartburg.

Very interesting- I've been to the Audi museum in Ingolstadt and have seen IFA cars at a railway musuem in Dresden. I am sure you know that the 2-cylinder DKW engine was produced by Saab for use in their model 92s. I have a Saab 93F 2-takt. I am looking forward to your next video on these cars. I would love to own a DKW! Also, the Beetle was actually copied from the Tatra, designed by Hans Ledwinka- some information on that would I'm sure be appreciated. A friend owns several Tatras.

5:05 That's the post-war version. The hubcaps are branded "IFA". 😉

Beautiful, beautiful amazing content and video. May you also make a video on Josef Gantz and Adler car which also intended to compete with the Beatle

During my childhood in the 1970ies there were still some DKW F8 and F9 on the roads and of course their successors, the Trabant 500, 600, 601 and the Wartburg 1000 and 353 followed by the 353W in the early 1980ies. DKW started its business in 1916 with the prospective of development of several military cars driven by steam engines. That's why they called themself in the beginning Dampf-KraftWagen (or D.K.W. with the dots). But allready in the 1910th the internal combustion engines started their victory way which was very surpricing at this time, because the steam engine allready had a history of 200 years and there were a number of very light weight fast running steam engines running in cars since 100 years (the busses in london were driven by - steam engines in 1816). Interestingly a car drive system development company Ingenieurgesellschaft Auto und Verkehr in Chemnitz restarted the history of fast running steam engines for cars in the late 1990ies. In the early 2000th they were successful with the development of the Zero Emission Engine ZEE03. This steam engine offered a power of 75 kW out of 1000 cm³ stroke volume in the classic DKW 3-cylinder-in-line arrangement with a COP of 45%. Not so bad for a steam engine. The total water volume of this engine was 250 cm³. This engine was very unconventional. There was a relatively small boiler for the preparation of saturated steam at 200 bar and 350 °C. The engine had 3 separate superheater working up to 900 °C on top of each cylinder head. So the superheated steam was produced just in the moment of steam injection. The Rankine cycle works with 2 steps: compression of the remaining steam inside the cylinder, steam injection and expansion. At the end of the expansion stroke a control slit opens its way downstream through a heat exchanger to the condensator. In the upstream this heat exchanger delivers the boiler from the condensator reservoir. Some of the engines were built in Skoda cars and tested on the streets. After a few minutes the boiler had enough steam and the superheaters have reached their temperature to start the car. The main problem was freezing of the water due to decomposition of the water and the anti-freeze in the cycle. The engine behaviour in the car was comparable with electric engines. It is not necessary use a starter drive nor to run the engine idle. The engine developed its full torque from zero rpm. The boiler and superheater were fired with propane. But the fuel doesn't matter. The prospect of the development was the substitution of turbo Diesel engines. So the development came unfortunately too early. From the viewpoint of efficiency the engine is about comparable to an electric drive chain including a hydrogen or direct methanol fuel cell. It can be operated by use of Energy-to-fuel media like hydrogen, methane, methanol, or propane.

Ahem ...I owned 4 of these cars... All four where the 1000's... fantastic cars...I bought my first one in 1972...I was trapped for speeding doing 100miles an hour....The Speedo was calibrated at that... Which made me very proud inspite of the ticket for speeding...Hahaa... It was by the way me going down hill with my foot hard on the petrol... Hahaa...Those vehicles never let me down...come winter or summer... I had lovely old German friend who was a Diesel Mechanic, who worked on these vehicles...And he said, which I"d like to believe, he said why they never produced cars like DKW. Was it was a too good a car... He said was a perfect vehicle... The motor manufacturers don't make cars like that any more cos, it just goes on and on...It out lasts just about all vehicles of today...hah. Very sad indeed...

thank you for sharing all your tech knowledge. another video suggestion: your personal projection where the auto industry will be in 20 years? only electric cars? crazy aerodynamics on economy cars? ect...

I can't help but notice it's fairly similar to the Citroën 2CV

very interesting

I find the names a bit confusing. Which is the original name, DKW or IFA?

My family had a DKW & later a VW. Still preferred the quirkiness of the DKW, and it had a heater which worked. Unlike the frosted windows in the winter with the VW. Only car I ever drove that needed the inside windows scraped. Lol

The former Danish Director and originator, Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen, was pressed out by The Nazis and today is buried north of Ringsted in Denmark. Once a year owners of DKWs meet by his grave!

Interesting history

Tolle Recherche ! Im DKW 3=6 wurden wir als kleine Kinder zum Kindergarten gefahren. Er war grasgrün und wir nannten ihn DKW Frosch. Aber außer seiner Form habe ich kaum Erinnerungen an das Fahrzeug. Gelegentlich sprang er nicht an, das weiß ich noch. Die ganze Entwicklung der Autoindustrie hat eben unter starker politischer/militärischer Einflußnahme gestanden. Dennoch ist bemerkenswert, was einzelne Köpfe in der Industrie alles haben bewegen können. Porsche gehört definitiv dazu, auch wenn ich von seiner Person nicht unbedingt Fan bin.

Interesting video.

reminds me of the 2-stroke 3-cylinder SAAB -- saw + heard one in Seattle, 1987 -- wagon/estate body type Had a 2-stroke 3-cylinder motorcycle at the time That was at UW Seattle, where a windtunnel was built in 1917 (Saw / heard / smelled Trabants in summer 1989.)

In my youth, I had a friend who’s father owned one and the friend got to drive once a while. I rode in it but never drove it. Quick little son of a gun with 5 on the tree.

DKW stands for Damp Kraft Wagen. It was founded by a Dane.

I like this car. I remember similar looking IFA from East Germany. I think only two things missed on that car. At first four stroke engine with sleeve valves could be better option for this car. And at second it could be better as hatchback then saloon/sedan. But this is more advanced car then VW Beetle which I can seem to me as very unpractical design

gibt es das auch irgendwo auf deutsch ?

"how do we beat Porsche with this volkswagen?" "well he left us his other designs, lets try those!"

It's beautiful! Actually I love ALL the automotive designs, from the 20s through the 50s, and a bit less so, the 60s/70s. I hate the "sculpted blob" look, that started in the 80s, and dominates, today.

No mention of the Tatra T87?

Amazing cars. The trunk holds a bicycle. And car will do a 90* turn at 50kph. A Beetle would roll over. 4 speed all synchro. Just a shame DKW didn't use a flat 4 petrol engine up front like the Hansa Goliath.

That was the Deek that was... zoom

My father owned 2 DKW 3=6 in nthe late fifties, killed 3 engines. I have a photo of me behind it, so must have been 1954 or 1965. And in my neighvourhood someone has one, I see it from time to time parked outside.

Reminds me of the earlier Tatra.

Interesting that they say that the 3 cylinder engine had a positive relationship with the straight 6 when it came to vibration, not said today??

When production changed from civil to military vehicles what models of military vehicles did the Zwickau factory produce?

Hey Martin, I was just thinking whether we could get your opinion on two brand new cars: A Swiss company just burst on the supercar stage with a twin turbo V6 carbon tub road racer : the Picasso 660LMS. As the name suggest, they target Le Mans with a version of that car, but for now we have a quite extreme road car with a carbon tub and rear subframe, 660 ps, and a claimed 960kg of downforce at the 196mph top speed. They seem to be quite serious, and have got some stuff to back up their claims, but I'd be curious to know what you think. Alpine just unveiled their Alpenglow, it's definitely an unrealistic concept car with hydrogen propulsion, variable opacity bodywork, and some other stuff. Style wise, it's got vibes from the Renault DeZir concept (which was interestingly one of the many signs that a new Alpine was on the way), but more interestingly also from long tail Le Mans racers, and (surprise) the Peugeot 9X8. And that's where I'd love to have your opinion: the car is part F1, part Le Mans prototype, single seater with a feet-up (I think) driving position, aero profiled F1 suspension elements, a 9X8 rear wing, a Valkyrie diffuser, a central fin, etc. It looks to me to be a bit like the Mazda Furai, definitely a (very good looking) concept, but maybe made with a more serious intent, which in this case could maybe be announcing their future LMH racer, in a way like what Cadillac did?

Known in Germany as "Deutsche Kinder Wagen"!

It was known as ... Deuche Kleine Wonder... for me it was precisely that...forgive my spelling..! The pistons were aligned at an angle...it was revolutionary...Often when people took their DKW's for a service and especially to have rings and pistons fitting, the mechanic would put the piston in the wrong way, which messed up the engine block...as far as my memory services me right the pistons should be put in from the bottom...Yes... Hahaha...

The only real Beetle competitor is the Citroen 2CV!

interesting video but the start with all the hiding of the car with the rectangles I found distracting and didn't add any value, in fact it was annoying, otherwise an excellent video thank you

DKW always interested me. Deutsche Kraft Wagen which many Germans called Deutsche Kinder Wagen. There incorporation into auto union must have helped stop some of those "Kinderwagen" jokes. 🙂

2:50 Why is the fuel tank so sad?

2stroketurbo has at least 2 Deeks, 3=6 Auto Union models.

Amazing as 2cv and DKW we're so advanced,that gavrilo Princip may have died of TB before shooting Arch Duke Ferdinand,think where Europe would be now.

That car in the pictures is looks more like an IFA F9 (badge in the grille) not the DKW.

aha, wegen den briten ist es also die vw und nicht die Porsche Gruppe.

.Was not the DKW copied and made in East Germany? under IFA or some such name. Legend has it that the entire staff legged it over the Border one dark night and and carried on working at the former DKW factory the following Monday. .I always thought the Sonderklasse was a lovely looking little car but my. word that two stroke engine and its smoke trail following on behind - It would never pass todays polution test.

How can somebody hear you?

America alone understood that the futture of auto engineering is to build as big, as inefficient, and as non-aerodynamc a car as possible. It's taken decades for Germany to catch up.

Its a bit like the RO80 From. Nsu

F9 ? The slogan was 3=6 as the 3 cylinder twostroke had as many ignitions as a 6 cylinder…

Traducido lo entenderiamos.

Was IST denn DAS für'n Video ? 30 Sekunden Laufzeit - da war ich satt ----

Their motorcycles weren't bad either !

For sale/ zu verkaufen oder tauschen 2 DKW/IFA F9 1953 split window/ Brezel Zustand Blech 5! Ich werde es wohl nie schaffen sie zu retten, falls jemand an diesen schönen streamlines Interesse hat, einfach mal melden. Autos sind teilzerlegt, nicht komplett, stehen Nähe Berlin.

Interesting body design. But front wheel drive with its issues? No thank you.

isn't it forgotten because after the war it ended up in DDR?

they should still build the vw today, not the plastic rubbish they make now ???

Auf englisch gibt´s mehr Klicks. Klar.

it was copy of Tatra, nothing else

i would have moved to the american side of the boarder too to escape the russians ???

Warum auf englisch? Ist die deutsche Sprache nichts mehr wert? Traurig. Wandere doch nach Amiland oder zu den Briten aus.

I down voted your comment as I down vote any video that mentions Hitler/nazis regardless of context.

is this a human voice? sounds like out of a can...

Dkw was just bad. Audi sucked, VW outdated, Bmw rusted fast, mercs sucked overall, Borgward was already bankrupt. My dad drove a small Alfa, my mum Datsun 1000.

Horrible looking car no easy way to put it

4:22 Why did you mirror the image?

IFA!