Thank you for the kind words. This video is far from perfect. I failed to mention that the frame and bodywork of the pre-war DKWs was made from wood, which was prone to rot. The bodys were sagging, making the doors hard to close, or were even snapping apart in the middle. I also had forgotten to read the text about the Munga, which I was trying to compensate showing text on the pictures. But I am happy that you enjoyed the video.

NSU will be covered in the video after the next one.

That was never claimed in the video.

@wbrenne i know, but the previous three Videos where all about Borgward Brands, so i just could not resist to point that out

Actually, DKW cars were imported into the USA, but only for a short period during the mid-1950s. The two-stroke engines, the lack of pre-mixed oil/gas fuel at gas stations, the rough idle, the meagre performance and poor reliability, and the harsh competition to which even well-established US brands fell victim were the main causes that the brand never gained significant traction and is now largely forgotten in the USA.

Volkswagen had managed to pull itself out of trouble when they were nearly bankrupt after having stuck too long with the air-cooled rear-engined rear-wheel-drive cars, albeit with the help of another struggling carmaker with up-to-date products - Audi. Maybe they will soon find an advanced but struggling Chinese carmaker that they can exploit to update their own model range like they did with Audi.

@ yeah, I was just joking due to the current situation of them.

Difficult to understand - they were exported everywhere, to Australia as well, just like Goliath and Borgward. They could be seen at each corner of the street in Germany - and outwitted a beetle all day long....

Lloyd was a brand of the Borgward group of Bremen, West Germany. However, the models 300 and 400 are very similar to the East German Trabant, which is no coincidence. Before World War II, engineers at DKW in Saxony, which was to become part of East Germany after the war, worked on a small, affordable car with front wheel drive and a transversially-mounted two-cylinder two-stroke engine. The project was delayed due to the war. A group of engineers fled East Germany, settled near Bremen, and founded the engineering company INKA. They were tasked by Borgward with constructing a small, affordable, simple car, so they developed the pre-war DKW plans to a market-ready model. Later, they became employees of the Lloyd branch of the Borgward group. Over in East Germany, the remaining engineers went back to the same plans when they were tasked to construct a small, affordable, simple car by the government and developed the Trabant.

All Lloyds were front wheel drive. All except the Arabella had a transversially-mounted engine.

There were three consortia that developed different designs. Consortium A consisted of Porsche, Atlas-MaK, Luther Works and Jung-Jungenthal, Consortium B consisted of Ruhrstahl, Rheinstahl-Hanomag and Rheinstahl-Henschel, and consortium C consisted of Borgward. However, Borgward never built a prototype, lagging behind the other consortia in terms of progress. The ministry of defense found the Borgward design to be too risky, so further development was stopped after the bankruptcy of the Borgward group. Four prototypers were built based on the designs of consortia A and B and tested in Germany and France. Based on these, consortia A and B developed a joint prototype II, but consortium B dropped out after making two prototypes II due to technical and financial issues. Only consortium A led by Porsche remained.

Nein - das war schon ein Express 1100 ( erkennbar an der Dachkontur ) - aber irgendjemand kam wohl auf die Idee, das Frontblechunterteil vom Matador - Wiking Rapid anzubauen...