WandererW24

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Origins

The W24 of 1937 was Wanderer's volume offering in Auto Union's final pre-war catalogue: a 1.8-litre four-cylinder saloon sharing group components — including chassis architecture common with DKW's larger models — built to the marque's habitual solidity for the middle-class buyer trading up from motorcycles or minimal cars. Around 23,000 were produced before September 1939 redirected Chemnitz's lines to military work, making the W24 among the most numerous Wanderers ever and, effectively, the last: post-war Soviet dismantling erased the marque's industrial base, and Auto Union's western rebirth had no room for its middle brand. Surviving W24s thus carry disproportionate weight — ordinary family cars that became a marque's full stop, and the four rings' forgotten quarter made metal.