Audi Tradition

Audi Tradition 24

Anniversary Dates 2020

Düsseldorf Factory of Auto Union GmbH – First DKW Passenger Car Post-War

70 years

After Auto Union GmbH was founded in Ingolstadt in September 1949 and production of the DKWmotor­ cycles and delivery vans began in the same year, August 1950 saw the manufacture of Auto Union’s first post-war passenger car. The model was the DKWMeisterklasse F 89 P as a saloon and four-seater convertible made by Karmann. The new DKWwas a combination of the body and chassis from the DKW F9,

which was planned for 1940, with the proven two-­ cylinder engine from the DKW F8. As there were in­ sufficient production facilities available to manufacture passenger cars in Ingolstadt, Auto Union had taken a lease on the former site of Rheinmetall-Borsig AG in Düsseldorf and set up a passenger car production line which was to operate there until mid-1962.