Start with what the DKW F102 is: a 2-door saloon / 4-door saloon with 1175 , built from 1963 to 1966, in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar. What it meant takes a little longer.
Where it came from
The DKW F102 is a passenger car that was produced from August 1963 to 1966 by the German manufacturer Auto Union. Superseding the Auto Union 1000, it was the last model branded as a DKW by the manufacturer and also one of the last West German production cars equipped with a two-stroke engine, the last being the Goggomobil.
Under the skin
The engine is 1175 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 910 kg -. Drive goes through a 4-speed manual / all-synchromesh. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2499 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
In the DKW line-up the DKW F102 has a clear place: it replaced the Auto Union 1000; it handed the line to the Audi F103; the factory was Ingolstadt, West Germany. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Buick Riviera, the Pontiac GTO, the Aston Martin DB5. Nearby in the DKW catalogue sit the DKW 3=6 and the DKW CD Manzel.
Owning one today
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the DKW F102 has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.