DKW

The F89 shared its underpinnings with the DKW F8 Meisterklasse which had been available between 1939 and 1942, but the F89 has a steel body based on that of the DKW F9, a prototype which would have directly replaced the F8 on the Zwickau production lines had the war not intervened. Since the factories at Zwickau, Chemnitz and Zschopau were located in the Soviet occupation zone, production was relocated to Düsseldorf. The F89 was the first passenger car to be manufactured by the new Auto Union company in West Germany. It featured a water-cooled, two-cylinder, 684 cc engine.