DKW fwd 1931

DKW cars with front wheel drive is also the basis for the reconstruction of Auto Union to West Germany after World War II. Between 1949 and 1966 were plants in Ingolstadt and Düsseldorf (Dusseldorf 1962) built no less than 887,000 DKW passenger cars before production switched to the new Audi range, first shown to the public in summer 1965 . The last DKW passenger cars, however, were born far from their home country. Auto Union models will be built under license in Argentina and Brazil until 1968. In 1916, Danish engineer Jørgen Rasmussen founded a factory in Skafte Zschopau in Saxony, Germany, to produce steam fittings. That same year, he tried to make a steam car to be produced, called the DKW. Although unsuccessful, it was a toy two-stroke engines made ​​in 1919, Des Knaben Wunsch called, "the desire of the child." He also put a slightly modified version of this engine in a motorcycle and has Das Kleine Wunder-called "little miracle". This was the real beginning of the DKW brand: in the 1930s, DKW was the world's manufacturer of the largest motorcycle. In 1932, DKW merged with Audi, Horch and Wanderer to form Auto Union too. Auto Union came under Daimler-Benz owned in 1957, and was then bought by the Volkswagen Group in 1964. The last car was the DKW F102, which ceased production in 1966, after the mark has been deleted.