The AWE racing cars, known as EMW racing cars until the end of 1955, were a series of racing cars built between 1953 and 1955 in the Eisenach plant by the EMW and AWE racing collective and raced from 1954 to 1956. The GDR government had set up the racing team to prove the efficiency of socialist industry, starting from the BMW 328 and its successor the BMW 340. For 1954 the collective built a new streamlined racing sports car, the EMW 1500, with a newly designed 1.5 litre six-cylinder, four-stroke twin-camshaft light alloy engine of 138 hp, independent front suspension and a De Dion rear axle. Arthur Rosenhammer won the first race at Leipzig in May 1954, and on 3 December 1954 set a world record for ten miles at 229.5 km/h.
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were a series of racing cars that were constructed between 1953 and 1955 in the Eisenach automobile plant
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used in national and international races from 1954 to 1956
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the GDR government commissioned a group of vehicle designers
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known as EMW racing cars until the end of 1955
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