In the F7 update, the slightly smaller entry-level 'Reichsklasse' body was dropped – instead all F7s, including the base trim, now got the slightly longer body previously reserved for the 'Meisterklasse' model.

Some 80,000 of these front-wheel drives were sold until the 1939 DKW F8 successor was released.

The Reichsklasse engine was of 584 cc with an output of 18 bhp (13 kW).

The Meisterklasse’s 692 cc engine had an output of 20 bhp (15 kW).

[1] Like all the small DKWs of the 1930s, the F7 had front-wheel drive,[1] which in its era was still very innovative, but in subsequent decades would become the default drive layout in the majority of cars around the world.