The term "front-wheel drive" hardly means anything to anyone today, but it is not a spelling mistake. The Stoewer V5 was called a "front-wheel drive" because of its front-wheel drive - the first of its kind in Germany, by the way. The various front-wheel drive models were used in a wide variety of applications and even achieved success in motorsport. And they sold well. This report tells the story of this interesting vehicle and shows it in historical pictures and the sales literature of the time.