DKW Munga

The DKW Munga is a DKW-branded off-road vehicle that was built by Auto-Union in Ingolstadt, Germany.

[2] The civilian version of the Munga was widely adopted in West Germany for agricultural and forestry work in particular, and also became popular abroad, especially in those countries where "go anywhere" transport was needed because of poor roads, such as large parts of South America and South Africa.

[3] The Munga was later also available from the end of 1956 as a four-seat pan structure of steel sheet and as a six-or eight-seater platform body.

The term therefore corresponds to the body variant: The Royal Netherlands Army had intended the Munga as a replacement for the 1956 M38A1 NEKAF Jeep, but the type caused so many problems that it was removed from front line service prematurely in 1970.

[6] The Munga was also built in São Paulo, Brazil, by DKW-Vemag, where it was called DKW Candango.

DKW Munga
1955 pre-production prototype.
Candango, the Brazilian Munga
A 1960 Candango, with hard top made by Carraço