The Big DKW's three-cylinder two-stroke ran on a triple-redundant ignition — three separate sets of points and coils, one per cylinder, clustered around a single lobed cam.
Lead trim: F93 two-door saloon (896 cc two-stroke I3, 38 hp) · up to 40 hp
DKW 3=6 (Sonderklasse)F93-F94 · 1955–1959
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FactThe Big DKW's three-cylinder two-stroke ran on a triple-redundant ignition — three separate sets of points and coils, one per cylinder, clustered around a single lobed cam.
The F93 launched in 1955 (for the 1956 model year) was also known as the Big DKW 3=6 (Großer 3=6): a wider car with a number of improvements — width and track grew by almost 4 inches (the track by 10 cm), an oval front grille with five horizontal slats (replaced by a chrome grid in 1957), improved instrumentation and heating, a strengthened chassis and better suspension and brakes — sharing the F91's 2,350 mm wheelbase but slightly longer, wider and taller. Power rose to 38 bhp (28 kW) in 1955 and to 40 bhp (30 kW) in 1957; a four-speed gearbox became standard in late 1956 and a Saxomat automatic centrifugal clutch became available in 1956. There were three production series (model 1956 from September 1955, 1957 from October 1956, 1958 from September 1957 to August 1959), the Karmann cabriolet of the F93 was only available for the 1956 model year, and in 1956 the F94 brought a four-door saloon (wheelbase extended by 10 cm) and the F94U Universal estate. The DKW-Vemag Belcar sedan, Vemaguet station wagon and Fissore coupé were built under licence in Brazil from 1956 to 1967, about 109,343 cars altogether. From 1958 the car was sold simply as the DKW 900 in the US and the Netherlands, and the Auto Union 1000 succeeded it from late 1957 for the 1958 model year. The page's table lists the F93 two-door saloon (38 hp at 4250 rpm, 71.1 N·m (52.4 lb·ft) at 3000 rpm, 7.25:1, 123 km/h (76 mph), length 4,225 mm (166.3 in), width 1,695 mm (66.7 in), height 1,465 mm (57.7 in)) and later cars at 40 hp with 73.6 N·m (54.3 lb·ft) at 3500 rpm; the DKW Monza is catalogued as its own generation.
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Trims & Figures
2 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F93 / F94 (896 cc two-stroke I3, 40 hp from 1957) | 1957–1959 | 0.9 L Inline-3 | 40 hp | 54.3 lb-ft | — | FWD | — | — |
| F93 two-door saloon (896 cc two-stroke I3, 38 hp) | 1955–1957 | 0.9 L Inline-3 | 38 hp | 52.4 lb-ft | — | FWD | — | — |
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The Monza was never an official DKW — it was an independent coachbuilder's car, and it died in 1958 the moment Auto Union simply stopped supplying chassis for it.
The Big DKW's three-cylinder two-stroke ran on a triple-redundant ignition — three separate sets of points and coils, one per cylinder, clustered around a single lobed cam.
The three-cylinder two-stroke in DKW's 1953 F91 needed three separate ignition systems — one set of points and coil per cylinder, all clustered around a single lobed cam.
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