Audi Front
Audi Type UW
The Audi Front Type UW is a passenger car of the upper middle class, the Auto Union introduced in the spring of 1933 under the Audi brand as Germany's first six-cylinder car with front wheel drive. In the succession of the type T of the Audi Zwickau was "U " is used, while the "W " stand for coming from the hikers W22 2- liter engine. After delivery of 1817 cars of the successor Audi 225 was introduced with 2.3 -liter engine in February 1935 on the automotive exhibition in Berlin.
The 1931 for the hiker W20 designed by Ferdinand Porsche above -controlled engine with 2 liter engine of the Audi UW develops 40 hp at 3500 rpm -1. The lying in front of the engine unsynchronized four-speed transmission with gear lever on the dashboard drove the front wheels. The car with central box frame has independent front suspension with overhead transverse links and transverse leaf spring down and swing arms with bottom-mounted transverse leaf spring rear. It was available as a four-door " Sport Sedan " with 4 windows, four-door sedan with 6 windows and two-door convertible with either two or four windows.
One year after the start of series production was the Auto Union in Zwickau shifted production of the Audi UW in the neighboring factory Horch, to make room for the increasing production of DKW Front car in the Audi factory. For capacity reasons, the limousine bodies were already made at Horch. The Cabriolets built Gläser in Dresden with the externally supplied from Zwickau chassis.
Specifications
- L4 = 4-door sedan
- Cb2 = 2-door convertible
Production figures
Swell
- Oswald, Werner: German cars from 1920 to 1945. Motorbuchverlag Stuttgart, 10th edition (1996 ), ISBN 3-87943-519-7
- Peter Kirchberg: Horch, Audi, DKW, IFA, 80 years history of cars from Zwickau. Motorbuchverlag Stuttgart, 3rd edition (1991 ), ISBN 3-344-70708-6