Two stroke Tuesday

"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse) 03/15/2016 at 16:58 • Filed to: DKW, F102, Two stroke

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Meet the DKW F102. With 4 deurs. Yes, there was a 2 deur as well.

DKW stood for Das Kleine Wunder, the little wonder, and they were best known for making two stroke motorcycles. They went on to become one of the four rings in the Auto Union logo and as the F102 was a two stroke Auto Union thought the DKW badge was appropriate.

Here we have the F102's engine. Yes, it’s tiny. It was a 1 litre triple. Yes, it had three ignition coils. Yes, that engine bay looks better than it did new.

The F102 wasn’t a quick thing. What to do? Why, glue together two triples and make a V6 of course. Meet the Mueller-Andernach V6 conversion, fitted in this case to an Auto Union 1000. Yes, the radiator is supposed to be back there, it was originally designed for thermosyphon cooling and had to be as high as possible.

You prefer a straight six? You’re not alone. Meet two triples glued together the other way. This one is from Saab, who used an engine which was based on the DKW one.

The F102 wasn’t a success so Auto Union put in a four stroke, called the resulting F103 an Audi (just an Audi at first, numbers came later) and the rest is history.

Meanwhile versions of the triple carried pop-pop-popping away in Saabs, Wartburgs and Trabants. Saab replaced it with a Ford V4, the East Germans continued on their smoky way until 1988/89.

Klaus Schmoll > Cé hé sin 03/15/2016 at 17:03

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Was it the beginning of the end of DKW or the very first signs of the start of something new a.k.a Audi?

Cé hé sin > Klaus Schmoll 03/15/2016 at 17:08

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It was the end of the end for DKW, there were no further models using the name.

At the same time it was the second beginning for Audi, a name which hadn’t been used since before the war and which Auto Union resurrected to show that they had something new to offer and which they wanted to differentiate from the two stroke Auto Unions and DKW.

Berang > Klaus Schmoll 03/15/2016 at 17:08

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I think the DKW/Auto Union brand was doomed from the moment they were sold to VW.

duurtlang > Cé hé sin 03/15/2016 at 17:26

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there was a 2 deur as well.

It appears you’d prefer to write in Dutch. Don’t fight it, you know you want it.

MultiplaOrgasms > Cé hé sin 03/15/2016 at 17:36

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DKW F102 and Audi F103, brought to you by Daimler-Benz.

Cé hé sin > duurtlang 03/15/2016 at 18:00

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Look at the first picture...

duurtlang > Cé hé sin 03/15/2016 at 18:02

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Point taken.

That's gonna leave a mark! > Cé hé sin 03/15/2016 at 18:09

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The battery in the F102 looks only slightly bigger than the battery in my cellphone.

Cé hé sin > MultiplaOrgasms 03/15/2016 at 18:12

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Indeed, and Mercedes bailed out because they didn’t want to be associated with a company making two strokes. They did however leave Auto Union with a newly designed four stroke which saved the company.

MultiplaOrgasms > Cé hé sin 03/15/2016 at 18:22

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And later VW.

Which makes me wonder why Daimler bought it in the first place and invested so much money and some pretty talented engineers into it.

Cé hé sin > That's gonna leave a mark! 03/15/2016 at 18:31

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Six volt, they’re smaller. Bosch list a 66 Ah battery that’ll fit. It still weighs nearly 8 kg, so it’s not that small. Mind you a 66 Ah 12 volt would be double that.

Cé hé sin > MultiplaOrgasms 03/15/2016 at 18:42

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A Herr Flick, DB’s biggest shareholder, persuaded them to buy in. Quite possibly the state or federal government wanted the German motor industry to be concentrated in a smaller number of companies, or possibly it was down to personal relationships between him and Auto Union’s shareholders.

Flick was extremely wealthy and despite being found guilty of war crimes went on to become even more wealthy after WW2

pip bip - choose Corrour > Cé hé sin 03/16/2016 at 04:23

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