DKW
The DKW Typ 4=8 is one of 30 DKW models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1929. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the DKW Typ 4=8 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1920s were the vintage era, when coachbuilt bodies, six- and eight-cylinder engines and the first true luxury marques defined a golden age of craftsmanship. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Maserati Maserati Type V4, the British Motor Corporation MG M-type, the Delage Delage D8 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the DKW Typ 4=8 reads like this: the record lists its engine as 1929 / 980 cc 4 cylinder 2-stroke / / 1930–1931 / 762 cc 4 cylinder 2-stroke / / 1931–1935 / 990 cc 4 cylinder 2-stroke / / / 1935–1940 / 1054 cc 4 cylinder 2-s; kerb weight is recorded at wheelbase = 1929 / 2800 mm / / 1930–1932 / 2700 mm1932 / 2760 mm / / 1932–1937 / 2850 mm / / 1937–1940 / 2600 mm; drive goes through 1929–1932 / 3-speed manual / / 1932 / 4-speed manual / / 1932–1940 / 4-speed manual with lockable freewheel device; the layout is FR layout. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within DKW's own catalogue the DKW Typ 4=8 sits alongside the DKW 3=6, the DKW CD Manzel, the DKW F102, the DKW F11/F12. It was succeeded by the body_style = 2 door ”limousine” (saloon) / 2 door “cabrio-limousine” (soft top saloon/sedan) / 2 door cabriolet . Assembly is recorded at Zwickau, Germany.
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