Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau

File:IFA Logo.svg

Logo of IFA conglomerate

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1986-0903-118, Leipzig, Herbstmesse, Straßenfahrzeuge.jpg

IFA at the Leipzig Fair in 1986

Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau ('Industrial Association for Vehicle Construction'), usually abbreviated as IFA, was a conglomerate and a union of companies for vehicle construction in the former East Germany (German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik - DDR).

IFA produced bicycles, motorcycles, light commercial vehicles, automobiles, vans and heavy trucks. All East German vehicle manufacturers were part of the IFA, including Barkas, EMW (which made Wartburg cars), IWL, MZ, Multicar, Robur, Sachsenring (which made Trabant cars) and Simson.

Car production

IFA cars were based on pre-war DKW designs and made in the former Horch factory in Zwickau. The F8 had a two cylinder 684 cc (41.7 cu in) engine, and the F9 had a three cylinder 804 cc (49.1 cu in) unit. The F8 bodies were straight copies of the pre-war models, and rapidly looked old-fashioned, but some had more modern coachwork by Baur of Stuttgart, then in West Germany. The three cylinder cars (F9) had not got into production before war broke out in 1939, and so had more up to date bodies similar to the West German DKWs. More than 26,000 F8's and 30,000 F9s were built. IWL produced W50 and L60 trucks and Robur light trucks and vans.

The IFA badge was dropped from cars in 1956, and the F8s became Zwickau P70s, and the F9 was rebodied to become the Wartburg and production transferred to Eisenach.

Vehicle gallery

Two wheels

• Emw-R35-mit-hinterradfederung.jpg

  EMW R 35, 1951–55

• Pitty rechts.jpg

  IWL Pitty, 1954–55

• Troll001.jpg

  IWL TR 150 Troll 1, 1962–1965

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  MZ RT 125/3, 1959–1962

• TS 1501.JPG

  MZ TS 150 "Luxus", 1973–1985

• TS 2501.JPG

  MZ TS 250/1 "Luxus", 1976–1981

• MZ ETZ250.JPG

  MZ ETZ 250

• Simson Schwalbe.jpg

  Simson Schwalbe

• Simson S51B.JPG

  Simson S51

Cars

• Wartburg-2006-09.jpg

  IFA F8

• IFA-F9.jpg

  IFA F9

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  EMW 340 limousine

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  P 240 Sachsenring cabriolet

• Trabant P50 front.jpg

  Trabant P50

• Trabant601K.jpg

  Trabant 601 S Universal

• Wartburg 312.jpg

  Wartburg 312 Camping

• Wartburg 353 by Hobson's Conduit 1988.jpg

  1985 Wartburg 353 saloon

Transporter & trucks

• Framo barkas pritsche.jpg

  Framo

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  Barkas B1000 flatbed truck

• Multicar.JPG

  Multicar M 25

• Robur 2005.jpg

  Robur LD 3000

• H3 Front.png

  IFA H3

• Fotothek df roe-neg 0006203 006 Ansicht eines IFA H3 während der Fahrt vor dem H.jpg

  IFA H3A

• IFA G5 Tankwagen mit Anhänger.jpg

  G5

• S4000.png

  IFA S4000

• IFA H6 Pritsche (schwarz).jpg

  IFA H6

• IFA H6B S Dresden.jpg

  IFA H6 bus

• W 50 L Blau.jpg

  IFA W50

• IFA L60.jpg

  IFA L60