IFA produced bicycles, motorcycles, light commercial vehicles, automobiles, tractors, vans and heavy trucks.

IFA cars were based on pre-war DKW designs and made in the former Horch factory in Zwickau.

The F8 bodies were straight copies of the pre-war models, and rapidly looked old-fashioned, but some had more modern coachwork by Baur of Stuttgart, then in West Germany.

The three cylinder cars (F9) had not got into production before war broke out in 1939, and so had more up to date bodies similar to the West German DKWs.

The IFA badge was dropped from cars in 1956, and the F8s became Zwickau P70s, and the F9 was rebodied to become the Wartburg and production transferred to Eisenach.