The AWZ P70 "Zwickau" is a small family car which was produced in East Germany by VEB Automobilwerke Zwickau (AWZ) between 1955 and 1959.
4-615: It succeeded the IFA F8 using the same 684 cc two-cylinder, two-stroke engine but with a completely new Duroplast body on a wooden frame and plywood floor. The engine produced 22 PS (16 kW; 22 bhp). The saloon was introduced in 1955, followed by an estate version in 1956 and a coupé in 1957. After the Chevrolet Corvette (C1) , the P70 was one of the first cars to be built using an all plastic body. In 1958 AWZ
8-660: The former Horch factory in Zwickau . The F8 had a two-cylinder 684 cc (41.7 cu in ) engine, and the F9 had a three-cylinder 804 cc (49.1 cu in) unit. The F8 bodies were straight copies of the pre-war models, and rapidly looked old-fashioned, but some had more modern coachwork by Baur of Stuttgart , then in West Germany . The three cylinder cars (F9) had not got into production before war broke out in 1939, and so had more up to date bodies similar to
12-529: Was a conglomerate and a union of companies for vehicle construction in the former East Germany . IFA produced bicycles , motorcycles , light commercial vehicles , automobiles , vans and heavy trucks . All East German vehicle manufacturers were part of the IFA, including Barkas , EMW (which made Wartburg cars), IWL , MZ , Multicar , Robur , Sachsenring (which made Trabant cars) and Simson . IFA cars were based on pre-war DKW designs and made in
16-824: Was united with the former Horch factory to become the VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau and the AWZ P70 became the Sachsenring P70 . The P70 was replaced by the Trabant P 50 in 1959 after 36,151 examples had been produced. This article about a classic post-war automobile produced between 1945 and 1975 is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau ( lit. ' Industrial Association for Vehicle Construction ' ), usually abbreviated as IFA ,
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