If you think Audi's SUV/truck lineage began in 2005 with the Q7, check out Bring a Trailer's wild 1957 Auto Union DKW Munga 4. As the name implies, this is a relic from before Audi became Audi, and if ...

The DKW 3=6 used a two-stroke engine to approximate the feel of a four-stroke motor. LOTHAR SPURZEM VIA WIKIPEDIA Current sleek, high-tech Audis have some interesting ancestors, among them the almost ...

Auto Union saw the potential of the Brazilian car market long before many of its competitors and started building cars locally with local company VEMAG under the DKW brand in 1956. At the time, DKW ...

When it comes to barn- and junkyard-found classic cars, we usually discuss vehicles with iconic nameplates. The reason is very simple: a 1969 Ford Mustang is more likely to be rescued than a 1960 ...

A few days ago I came across a car I'd never heard of before: The DKW Munga. Little did I realize it was the grandfather of those all-conquering Group B Rally Audi Quattros. You read that right. It's ...

DKW’s take on the Jeep idea ended up being quite close to the Porsche Jagdwagen. "It is a light multi-purpose vehicle, that can be used for passenger- or goods-transport. Technical efficiency was the ...

Today, Audi is a luxury powerhouse, selling well over 1.5 million vehicles annually around the globe and even more than two million not too long ago, thanks mostly to popular models like the Q5 ...

While many car enthusiasts are familiar with Auto Union's motorsport success during the Nazi era, Audi's history from the fifties until Volkswagen's buyout in 1964 is often forgotten. Yet in 1958, the ...

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