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DKW
Rare factory tour footage of DKW, curated from across the internet. Browse 2 clips below.
Factory tour footage takes you inside the places where cars are born — from hand-built ateliers in Maranello and Crewe to high-volume production lines in Wolfsburg and Toyota City. These clips reveal the extraordinary combination of precision engineering, skilled craftsmanship, and industrial scale that goes into every vehicle. Some of the most fascinating factory content comes from smaller manufacturers where individual workers sign the engines they build, or from historic facilities that have been producing cars for over a century.
DKW was a German car and motorcycle marque. DKW was one of the four companies that formed Auto Union in 1932 and thus became an ancestor of the modern-day Audi company. In 1916, Danish engineer Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen founded a factory in Zschopau, Saxony, Germany, to produce steam fittings. That year he attempted to produce a steam-power car; German: Dampfkraftwagen, from which the acronym DKW i...
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