The DKW F5 is a car from DKW, built from 1935 to 1936, when streamlining and independent suspension were arriving together. Under the bonnet: 584 .
The story
The DKW F5 is a small, front-wheel drive saloon produced by Auto Union's DKW division from 1935 to 1936, as a replacement for the DKWs F4 (Meisterklasse) and F2 (Reichsklasse) models.
What is underneath
Power comes from 584 . It weighs 700 kg. It shifts through a 3-speed manual. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2610 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the DKW F2 / DKW F4; its successor was the DKW F7; assembly was at Zwickau, Germany. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Chevrolet Suburban, the Bugatti Type 57, the Volkswagen Beetle — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the DKW catalogue sit the DKW 3=6 and the DKW CD Manzel.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the DKW F5 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.