IFA Model History

Germany · founded 1948

East Germany's state vehicle conglomerate (1948–1991) — the IFA badge covered postwar DKW-derived compacts and a quarter-million medium-duty trucks before reunification ended production.

Models

F8

IFA's first passenger car — a two-cylinder, two-stroke compact directly descended from prewar DKW designs, built at Zwickau from 1948 to 1956.

Compact car · 1948–1956
F9

IFA's three-cylinder compact — a more modern sibling to the F8, using a prewar DKW prototype body and 910 cc engine; its underpinnings went on to underpin the Wartburg 311.

Compact car · 1950–1956
W 50

East Germany's most prolific truck — nearly 572,000 built at Ludwigsfelde between 1965 and 1990 in over sixty factory variants.

Medium-duty truck · 1965–1990
L 60

IFA's final truck — a modern forward-control successor to the W 50, with a six-cylinder diesel and Volvo-inspired cab, built only from 1987 until reunification ended production in 1990.

Medium-duty truck · 1987–1990

Other makes