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Zwickau (car)
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HQM Sachsenring GmbH
right|250px|thumb|600cc 1983 Trabant P601L.HQM Sachsenring GmbH is a Zwickau-based company that supplies parts to the automotive industry.The company was named after the Sachsenring race track....
and called Sachsenring P70.
It succeeded the IFA
Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau
Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau , usually abbreviated as IFA, was a conglomerate and a union of companies for vehicle construction in the former East Germany ....
F8 using the same 684 cc two cylinder, two-stroke engine but with a completely new glass fibre body. An estate version was introduced in 1956 followed by a coupé in 1957.
It was replaced by the Trabant
Trabant
The Trabant is a car that was produced by former East German auto maker VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau in Zwickau, Sachsen. It was the most common vehicle in East Germany, and was also exported to countries both inside and outside the communist bloc...
P50 in 1959 after about 36,000 had been made.
The total output of AWZ P70 was 36,151 cars.