Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau

It is associated with German Democratic Republic. The record gives 1948 as its date of establishment or first appearance. Activity is recorded as ending in 1991. Its recorded seat is Chemnitz. The recorded field of activity is automotive industry. Recorded products are truck.

• Name — Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau • Type — Conglomerate • Industry — Manufacturing • Defunct — 1991 • Area Served — East Germany • Products — Bicycles, motorcycles, light commercial vehicles, automobiles, tractors, vans and heavy trucks • Illustration — IFA at the Leipzig Trade Fair in 1986

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 engine, and the F9 had a three-cylinder 804 cc 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.

• Illustration — EMW R 35, 1951–55 • Illustration — IWL Pitty, 1954–55 • Illustration — IWL TR 150 Troll 1, 1962–1965 • Illustration — MZ 125/3, 1959–1962 • Illustration — MZ TS 150 "Luxus", 1973–1985 • Illustration — MZ TS 250/1 "Luxus", 1976–1981 • Illustration — MZ ETZ 250 • Illustration — Simson Schwalbe • Illustration — Simson S51

• Illustration — IFA F8 • Illustration — IFA F9 • Illustration — EMW 340 limousine • Illustration — P 240 Sachsenring cabriolet • Illustration — Trabant P50 • Illustration — Trabant 601 S Universal • Illustration — Wartburg 312 Camping • Illustration — 1985 Wartburg 353 saloon

• Illustration — Framo • Illustration — Barkas B1000 flatbed truck • Illustration — Multicar M 25 • Illustration — Robur LD 3000 • Illustration — IFA H3 • Illustration — IFA H3A • Illustration — G5 • Illustration — IFA S4000 • Illustration — IFA H6 • Illustration — IFA H6 bus • Illustration — IFA W 50 • Illustration — IFA L 60 • Illustration — IFA Pionier RS