Audi’s home city of Ingolstadt, Germany, houses the brand’s official history museum, open to visitors, along with a delivery center and corporate offices. There is also a lesser known building that is not normally open to the public. There are Audi Tradition vehicles here. These include 726 cars and about 200 motorcycles, including retired Le Mans racers and racecars, the early Sport Quattros and the first left-hander in Germany (1928). We recently had a rare opportunity to go sightseeing. Here are some highlights.
A row of Audi Sport Quattros, including this 1984 model, is particularly impressive. This group-B special edition is completely reworked from the standard Quattro coupe, with more legs cut out of the wheelbase, aluminum 2.1-liter turbocharged five-cylinder engine for power 302 hp and wider wheels under the fenders. It was Germany’s most expensive car when it was introduced and could be worth more than $500,000 today.
The first 8-cylinder Audi, the Type R 19-100 was nicknamed the “Imperator” (“The Emperor”). Its inline 4.9-liter side-valve made 100 hp, but only 147 were built in 1928 and ’29.
The two-door Audi 80 wagon, produced between 1966 and 1968, was a contemporary of the Volkswagen Squareback, but with the powertrain at the front rather than the rear. This is model ’67.
In the Auto Union family of brands, the Wanderer is a mid-range product and the company has ambitiously pursued the BMW 328 with its W25K roadster. The “K” for “Kompressor” denotes a supercharged engine that makes 85 horsepower but is also known for its mechanical fragility. Despite their luxurious styling, only 260 were sold between 1936 and 1938.
This sporty version of the Audi 80 has a good fuel-injected 1.6-liter engine that produces 108 horsepower. That engine will go on to power the first-generation Volkswagen GTI.
DKW primarily built motorcycles, but in the early Thirties the company branched out into cars like this roadster, which was considered the first mass-produced front-wheel drive car. . It uses a 600 cc motorcycle engine and has a simple wooden body.
Audi Motorsport was founded in 1978, initially with the purpose of gathering. This was the first Quattro race car, used as a chase car during the 1980 Algarve rally. It actually proved to be 30 minutes faster than the rally winner.
The DKW Schnellaster was the first Auto Union product to be built after the War, starting in 1949 – before the Volkswagen Bulli. The name, which means “fast delivery”, is somewhat of a misnomer, as the two-cylinder, two-cycle engine in the front, transmits 20 hp (later 22 hp) to the wheels. before.
Built between 1994 and 1995, the RS2 wagon preluded Audi’s RS line of ultra-high performance cars. A joint effort with Porsche and assembled in Zuffenhausen, all RS2s are wagons and are powered by a 311 hp turbocharged-5 engine. Most are available in blue, silver, red or black, but any Porsche color is possible, including this striking green.
Among the four Auto Union brands, Horsch comes out on top with monumental machines like the 853 A. “A” for the autobahn, denoting the superspeed transmission, is mated to a 4.9-liter, 120-power straight transmission. horse power. This model is a rival to the Mercedes-Benz 540K.
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