Audi Type SS
Audi Type SS
The Audi Type SS - or Audi Zwickau - is a passenger car of the top class with eight-cylinder engine, which brought out the Audi works in Zwickau as the successor of the type R "Imperator ".
The SS model was the first new Audi cars after the takeover of the plant by the Zschopauer Motor Works JS Rasmussen AG ( DKW ). The vehicle has installed a side-valve engine with 5.1 liter displacement front. It develops 100 hp at 3000 min -1 and drives a four-speed transmission with shift lever in the center of the car the rear wheels. The engines were US-based constructions and Scharfstein were produced at the DKW - branch plant where Zschopauer Motor Works had set up with the bought machines of the former U.S. company Rickenbacker Motor Company, a new production. The car had two leaf-sprung rigid axles and hydraulic four-wheel brakes. It was available as a four-door or four-door Pullman limousine convertible.
Until 1932 457 copies were made .
Specifications
- PL4 = 4-door Pullman limousine
- Cb4 = 4-door convertible
Swell
- Oswald, Werner: German cars 1920-1945, Motorbuchverlag Stuttgart, 10th edition (1996 ), ISBN 3879435197
- Vehicle of the upper class
- Car model
- Audi
- Pullman limousine
- Cabriolet
- Zwickau history