After 90 years a super sedan the Auto Union designed has been built by Audi.
Audi, the automaker's successor, just built itdesigned a 16-cylinder sports sedan, but never built it. Ninety years later, it will finally make its public debut at the 2024 Goodwood Festival of Speed., was intended to be a high-performance road car from the firm, which was formed in 1932 from the merger of Audi, DKW, grand prix racing in the 1930s.
That deprived the world of a truly radical machine. Underneath the sedan body, the Type 52 features a mid-mounted supercharged V-16 from an Auto Union Type A race car. Displacing 4.3 liters, the engine was intended to run lower compression and less boost than the racing version, but still would have propelled the Type 52 to a top speed of 124 mph, Audi estimates.
The design specified a 5-speed transmission also taken from the race car, but that car's transverse leaf springs and friction dampers were replaced with longitudinal torsion spring suspension and hydraulic dampers.Audi commissioned U.K. firm Crosthwaite & Gardner, which also maintains the automaker's historic fleet of Silver Arrow race cars, to build the modern replica.
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