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1960 Auto Union 1000 Coupé de Luxe [F93] Class: Cars, Coupé — Model origin: 
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◊ 2005-10-27 01:37 |
DKW and Auto Union are two makes, but closely related. This is the Auto Union AU1000 of 1959. |
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◊ 2005-10-27 09:41 |
Nice, the first Auto Union other than a Munga  |
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◊ 2005-10-27 12:20 |
hum....but the make of auto union was DKW, up to me Auto Union, at that time was a type of DKW...are we beeing involved again in controversy?... |
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◊ 2005-10-27 12:33 |
According to Wikipedia, Auto-Union was a joint venture of Horch, Audi, DKW and Wanderer. I do not know how to list the cars then. I am sure that some cars where labelled as "Auto Union", but they may have been some DKW too at that time... And I do not have any idea for the model listed on this page .gif ":)") -- Last edit: 2005-10-27 12:40:33 |
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◊ 2005-10-27 13:52 |
Auto Union was a joint venture, started in 1932. It was something like BMC or today's DaimlerChrysler. The makers Horch, Audi, DKW and Wanderer kept their names and sold their cars under their own label. Only the Auto Union racing cars had that name. With the end of the war most production plants were in the now Soviet controlled zone, which later became the GDR. There the car production restarted soon after the war (I think as early as 1945) under the head orginasation IFA. Auto Union itself was split by order of the allied forces. In West-Germany production restarted in 1948 under the DKW label. In 1958 the Daimler-Benz AG took control of DKW, revitalised the name Auto Union for the larger DKW cars in 1959, and kept the DKW name for the smaller ones. Later, in 1964, everything was sold to Volkswagen, which slowly ceased production of the DKW and Auto Union. The last Auto Union in fact became the first Audi. Even today you can see the history on every Audi car: the four rings for the four makes of Auto Union. -- Last edit: 2005-10-28 23:53:44 |
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