Every time we hear the V16 of the Auto Union Type C, everything else pales in comparison. The man behind the wheel is one of the few modern day drivers who we think would excel in that era. The one and only Tom Kristensen. #FOS #Audi #V16 | Goodwood Road & Racing

The Schnellsportwagen lives! ✨ Back in the 1930s, Auto Union AG planned to build a street-legal sports car version of its Silver Arrow Grand Prix racers called the Auto Union Type 52. The car would be powered by a 16-cylinder supercharged engine. As early as the end of 1933, the Porsche design office drew up the first design sketches of the Schnellsportwagen, but project was abandoned in 1935, and its trail lost in the archives. Audi commissioned British restoration experts Crosthwaite & Gardner

During the 2022 Goodwood Festival of Speed I have filmed this 1936 Auto Union Type C. Mercedes-Benz domination in Grand Prix ended with the Auto Union Typ C. It took a few years to get it right, but Ferdinand Porsche’s daring design with a mid-mounted V16 finally won. It claimed many victories from 1936 to 1938 until the three-liter formula was laid out for 1939. Horch, Audi, DKW and Wanderer created Auto Union with the help of Ferdinand Porsche and Adolf Rosenberger. Along with building passeng

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Ranking the 10 Best Audi Sport Models of All Time #ferarri Horch simply translated his family name into Latin, with Audi establishing itself as a force to be reckoned with at the International Austrian Alpine Rally. Come 1932, Audi merged with Horch, Wanderer, and DKW to form Auto Union. The resulting company blessed us car enthusiasts with the absolutely insane racing cars in the 1930s, boasting supercharged V16 and V12 engines. In the aftermath of World War II, the German automaker didn’t offe