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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW in the hobby Super Test - chase over Alpine passes

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Created on July 31, 1963

Reading time 46min

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Heinz Kranz

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Auch Boote wurden mitgeschleppt.

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Cover

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Zu leicht befunden wurden die nur mit der Campingausrüstung beladenen Testwagen.

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Mit dem Höhenmesser stellte H. G. Wolf fest, dass die Sattelhöhe auf dem Ofenpass auf den Meter genau stimmt.

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Sandsäcke mussten die Differenz zum zulässigen Gesamtgewicht ausgleichen.

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Beim ersten Camping auf einer idyllischen Bergwiese zeigte sich, dass in den drei Wagen tatsächlich drei Campingausrüstungen untergebracht waren.

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Fieberkurve des Passkarussels.

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Über Berg und Tal und über gute und schlechte Strassen führte die Teststrecke. Hier ist die Kolonne auf der Höhe des Flexenpasses.

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Ein Privat-Bergrennen mit Massenstart über 5 Kilometer am Gotthard.

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Kurze Spritztour zu einem Badebesuch nach dem Touristenparadies Jesolo an der Adria.

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Auch Baustellen müssen passiert werden. Fotografiert im Vorarlberg.

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Ein vollbeladener VW 1200 (1963) auf weiter Flur.

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Quicklebendig ist der VW, der mit DKW und Fiat wacker Schritt hält.

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Umsichtig fahren die beiden Tester Wagen um Wagen auf der Autobahn Stuttgart-Heilbronn.

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Stück um Stück der zerlegten Triebwerke wird von Dekra-Ingenieuren kritisch geprüft.

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Die Scheibenbremsen des DKW F12 zeigten sich trotz den grossen Anforderungen in bester Verfassung.

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Der Dreizylinder-Motor war von allen drei Testwagen-Motoren am saubersten gefahren.

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Besonders kritisch prüften wir die in letzter Zeit vieldiskutierten Fiat-Bremsen.

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Die Verbrennungsräume beim Fiat-Motor waren leicht verkokt.

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Sehr zufrieden war der Dekra-Prüfingenieur mit dem Zustand des VW-Triebwerks, das kaum Spuren der harten Belastungen zeigte.

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Hier brach der Luftfilter des Fiat Europa ab.

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Die Einzelnoten der Tester.

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Fiat vs. VW vs. DKW im hobby Super-Test - Sonderprüfung "Wer ist der beste Grossstadtlümmel?"

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Summary

DKW vs. Fiat vs. VW - this is the title of the third hobby super test. The third edition of this popular test series chases the aforementioned vehicles with the maximum permissible load weight over a total of 25 mountain passes. Of course, crazy experiments, as they can only come from the hobby testers, are not missing here either... A subsequent dissection of the vehicles and a comprehensive evaluation are of course also included.

This article contains the following chapters

Got my car fully loaded . . .
Here we go!
Torment on the Turradi
Who counts the bends?
Between "icebox" and blazing sunshine
Good appetite on the mountain!
Balance after the first part:
After 3000 km of driving
Diary of the pass carousel
No vulgarity is left out
'Fever curves' on the mountain
Conclusion after the second part
100 laps on the Solitude
Special test in city driving
Full speed on the highway
Vivisection of three automobiles
Fiat Europa under the magnifying glass
Volkswagen is being dissected
Now to our scoring
Price offers on the used car market that we obtained

Estimated reading time: 46min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Our idea of super tests with purchased cars still seems to annoy various people who would have liked to have had this idea before us. So it was particularly amusing that shortly before we started our 3rd hobby Super Test, we read in a German magazine the certainly not kindly meant sigh of relief: "hobby no longer buys test cars!". Mind you, we left that behind at the moment when we boarded the three brand-new competitors of our 3rd hobby super test for the big ride on the Alpine pass carousel. Who could blame us for not being able to suppress a grin? Perhaps you will be surprised that, contrary to previous hobby Supertest conventions, this time there are three instead of two competitors. With the best will in the world and despite long discussions, we could not agree on two competitors for the third big test. When we realized that the next test candidates should be in the VW class, it was obvious that the VW had to be included. In the search for the real competitors with the widest distribution, Fiat Europa and DKW F 12 came so naturally that we didn't want to leave either of them out. And because all good things come in threes, we have also decided to publish this 3rd Super Test with three cars in three parts. This was in response to a request from our readers, as well as an urgent request from our testers, who now had the opportunity to carry out a few tests that had long been close to their hearts.

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