DAF 600
title: "DAF 600" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["daf-vehicles", "rear-wheel-drive-vehicles", "vehicles-with-continuously-variable-transmission", "sedans", "1960s-cars", "cars-introduced-in-1958"] topic_path: "general/daf-vehicles" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAF_600" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| image | Daf600arievdvliet.jpg |
| name | DAF 600 |
| manufacturer | DAF |
| production | 1959–1963 |
| 30,591 produced | |
| assembly | Netherlands: Eindhoven |
| successor | DAF 750 |
| class | Small family car |
| body_style | Saloon |
| layout | FR layout |
| engine | 590 cc I2 |
| transmission | Variomatic |
| wheelbase | 2050 mm |
| length | 3610 mm |
| height | 1440 mm |
| designer | Johan van der Brugghen |
| :: |
| image = Daf600arievdvliet.jpg | name = DAF 600 | manufacturer = DAF | aka = | production = 1959–1963 30,591 produced | assembly = Netherlands: Eindhoven | predecessor = | successor = DAF 750 | class = Small family car | body_style = Saloon | layout = FR layout | platform = | engine = 590 cc I2 | transmission = Variomatic | wheelbase = 2050 mm | length = 3610 mm | width = | height = 1440 mm | ground_clearance = | front_track = | rear_track = | weight = | related = | designer = Johan van der Brugghen The DAF 600 is a small family car produced by Dutch automaker DAF from 1959 until 1963. It was DAF's first production passenger car. The 600 was first presented at the Amsterdam Motor Show in February 1958 and was in production by 1959, although the firm had published the first details of the car at the end of 1957.
Manufacture
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/DAF_1958,_SFA001002574.jpg" caption="Exhibited as the "DAF ''De Luxe''" at a car show in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 2nd February 1958"] ::
thumb|Mayor [[Truus Smulders-Beliën]] in one of the first DAF 600s In 1959 the first two DAF 600 cars manufactured were awarded to the first Dutch woman to be a mayor, Truus Smulders-Beliën, and the chair of the Dutch automobile club. Smulders-Beliën been chosen because she was well known and she appeared to have ordered one. She was contacted and she agreed after it was realised that it was her staff who had ordered it. She was unaware of the order and the mayor did not have a driving licence.
From 1959 till 1963, a total of 30,591 cars were produced. The engine was an in-house development, an air-cooled, four-stroke, flat-twin petrol engine displacing 590 cc. Maximum power is 22 hp-metric at 4,000 rpm. Larger displacement versions were later developed and this engine remained available in DAFs until the DAF 46 was discontinued in 1976.
Variomatic transmission
The 600 was the first production car, after the 1920s Clyno, to have a continuously variable transmission (CVT) system - the innovative DAF Variomatic. |title=20th Century Cars |author=Hilton Holloway, Martin Buckley |isbn=1-84222-835-8 | year=2002 | publisher=Carlton
The Variomatic also permitted increased engine braking by operating a switch on the dashboard which reversed the action of the vacuum on the pulley's diaphragm, seeking a lower ratio with increased manifold vacuum.
Gallery
File:DAF img 2284.jpg File:DAF img 2286.jpg File:1959 DAF 600 2cylinder Boxer engine 4stroke 590cc air cooled.JPG
Notes
References
- Gloor, Roger. (2007). "Alle Autos der 50er Jahre 1945 - 1960". Motorbuch Verlag.
- Vaessens, Thomas. "De DAF, zélfs vrouwen kunnen er in rijden".
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