IFA (Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau)

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

IFA was used as an actual brand name for cars and motorcycles made in the former DKW factories in Zwickau and Zschopau from 1949 to 1956. As such it was superseded by the car brands AWZ and later Trabant and by the motorcycle brand MZ.

IFA as a truck brand was applied to the trucks made at IWL in Ludwigsfelde near Berlin into the 1980s.

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Subject ID: 1466