NASCAR Fan Mind Blown by the Auto Union Type C Race Car (V16)

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[@its_me_erle6502]

The guy sitting there on the Autounion is one of Germany's greatest racing drivers. Le Mans winner, countless championships in touring cars, Formula 1 driver Hans Joachim Stuck. His father was a driver for Autounion and drove this Type C in legendary battles against the Silver Arrows... as far as I know, the Autounions are all replicas because the originals were lost in the war...

[@kevinblankenburg4816]

They were not completely lost. I know back in the 90s where Audi could secure a Original, in pieces, from Lithuania or Latvia. *Edit* I just looked it up. Audi owns 3 of the 5 surviving cars.

[@GTIFabric]

I thought one was found in Russia?

[@JoriDiculous]

@@GTIFabricif they 'found' it in the early days of the 90's it would still be the Sovjet Union, and no. Sovjet and Russia is not the same.

[@berndbrakemeier1418]

so what?@@JoriDiculous

[@23GreyFox]

@@JoriDiculous Small difference for now.

[@PHDarren]

Now imagine 5 of them racing alongside 5 Mercedes powered by straight 8 supercharged engines. With many Alfa Romeo, Maserati and ERAs chasing too.

[@TheRCScotsman]

Heaven! The Mercedes supercharged straight 8s were masterpieces of engineering.

[@ChR0nos_7734]

those Mercedes W25's had engine attached to the supercharger

[@sixtenfredriksson1224]

Not to forget the Bugattis

[@alexk8792]

And in an era where Enzo Ferrari hadn't yet founded the company that bears his name.

[@nightstorm5914]

@@alexk8792 same for porsche; BMW had some races win too in that time

[@Kivas_Fajo]

I used to work for TV. Once I had the job to get the sounds of passing by F1 and old racing cars on a car show in my town centre. They gave me a directional microphone for that task. Mika Häkkinen was in the F1 car. Then there was a Silberpfeil from Mercedes from the 50s and when this bad boy passed by me I got hot metal pieces thrown into my face from the three exhaust pipes on the right side of the car. That was the coolest job I ever did for TV. The sound I captured was spread around the entire place for everyone to hear. This was in Stuttgart 20 years or so ago.

[@Karl-me4mh]

I think I recommended this car ages ago. Not only were the wheels small, the whole architecture of the weels and the rubber itself was completely different. So 550 hp in a cigar tube without safety-anything, old suspension, drum brakes, old rubber and no downforce at all is what we're talking about. This is terrifying.

[@Kualinar]

Yes, the Auto Union Type C was insane. Rear mounted V16 engine with all needle roller bearings for the crank shaft. Assembling the engine was like : Place the sleeve of the rear bearing, slip on the needle roller cage and needles, place the first crank half, seat on the engine block, bolt tight, place the sleeve for the first rod, place the bearing, place the second half of the first crank, bolt tight, repeat for every bearings. It was often equipped with dual wheels on the back, like the double wheels of trucks, due to the MASSIVE torque of the engine and it's mass. That engine have over twice the torque of a modern engine of the same power. Those are drum brakes. Back then, there was NO minimum weight, but a MAXIMUM weight. Not many got built, and several got destroyed during WWII. Now, try to imagine going over 380Km/h in the full body version of that car, on those skinny tires, drum brakes, friction shock, there are nothing but hay bales as fences, no seat belt, barely padded leather helmet, obviously no down force but some LIFT...

[@colingoode3702]

BRM (British Racing Motors) made a front engine'd 1.5litre V16 car with 600bhp for the early days of F1 which revved to 12,000rpm. One of which has been restored & run at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK. A glorious sounding engine which can be heard on a few videos on YT. It was designed in the late 1940's & was raced until the mid 1950's. A very complicated engine but not very reliable. Wiki has a load of info on this car & engine.

[@PrivateCustard]

If you can find a video of the BRM being properly revved, please reply with the link. Most of the modern runs with decent mics are restricted revs, and it breaks my heart!

[@NiklasJohansson70]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIuwgXd5g96Erqc @@PrivateCustard

[@colingoode3702]

BRM also did an H 16 engine in the 1960's.

[@MartinFransson]

@@PrivateCustardI think this video is one of the best. Only sound. The way it screams at around 2:20 is awesome kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIOxoIWigdGmeposi=uG7oXW1hQSe5VJa1&t=139

[@thatdudeinorange5269]

Used to have the BRM V16 as ringtone. Many callers wondered why it took me so long to answer, had to have it go through the gears first 😅

[@uncle_matula]

at 9:00 he is Hans-Joachim Stuck retired F1 driver, he was one of the IMSA Audi driver too

[@bennyhannover9361]

Yes and famous Porsche Sports Car Racer in Group C on Brun Porsche 956 , he was 3rd at Spa 1000 kilometers 1984 together with Walter Brun and Harald Grohs

[@bennyhannover9361]

And he was 1st on Imola 1000 kilometers together with Stefan Bellof 1984 956 KH

[@uncle_matula]

@@bennyhannover9361 yes I know, I've been watching F1 and other motorsports since the early 70's, the reason I mentioned IMSA is because Ian knows it

[@taurus2016]

Apart from the racing cars, there were no other car with the name "Autounion" until the end of the Second World War. The four sub-companies produced under their own, old brand names. These were “Wanderer”, “Horch”, “Audi” and “DKW”. Each brand name served its own market segment, similar to how American vehicle manufacturers do today. “Wanderer” represented the luxury brand and “DKW” manufactured vehicles for the common people. All brands also had their own logos, with the four rings always included. After the war, only “DKW” with their two-stroke engines were produced. The other brand names disappeared. However, the Autounion's four-ring logo was still used. In 1957, the first cars with the name “Autounion” came onto the market more for image reasons. At this point, Autonion was also bought by Daimler-Benz. From 1962 to 1965, “DKW” small cars were produced again, such as the DKW F12 Roadster. As before, all types were equipped with two-stroke engines. The era of two-stroke engines then disappeared forever in 1965, along with the "Autounion" and "DKW" brands, when the Volkswagen Group purchased Autounion from Daimler-Benz. Only then was the old brand name “Audi” revived, although the four rings of the Autounion continued to be used. So not all cars that wear the four rings are Audi.

[@michaelkuschnefsky362]

The guy from minute 9:05 onwards would have to be Hans-Joachim Stuck. He is a professional racing driver who also raced in Formula 1. His father was a racing driver and drove the Auto Union Type c V 16

[@theRealccb83]

Hans-Joachim "Strietzel" Stuck

[@dirkp.6181]

Yes, it's Striezel.

[@GoldenCroc]

Yep, hes a legend and well known around the world, but perhaps a bit more so a few decades ago.

[@kevinblankenburg4816]

It is actually the very same car that his father drove.

[@kohlenstoffeinheit5298]

STUCKIIIIIII!!!!!! 😝

[@Oshamer]

In 1937 was a Speed Record, from Autounion, about 406 km/h on the german Autobahn.

[@Z0RDR4CK]

During record drives on January 28, 1938, Rudolf Caracciola reached an average speed of 432.692 km/h // 269 mph _(towards Darmstadt 428.571 km/h // 266 mph - return towards Frankfurt 436.893 km/h // 271 mph) on the Frankfurt-Darmstadt Autobahn (a section of today's A5)._ This was the highest speed driven on a public road until November 4, 2017. The same day Bernd Rosemeyer - a famous german driver, died trying to beat this record.

[@paulocarvalho6480]

Holy Moses! That car can brake all the windows in the Empire State building, even the ones on top floor.

[@2Hunky]

I think i was 12 years old when one of these cars passed me by and shift down with Zwischengas (between-gas) on an Historical-Car Race on the old Nordschleife. You were able to stand on the inside of the the old Gerade-Gegengrade Track on a Grass-Hill in 1977. It blows my stomac away...but so intensiv and nice ;-)) You will never forget this feeling (as i) !!

[@2Hunky]

Wow , i'm getting old. That was in 1969 !

[@MartinBells]

The first speeding act ever was written around the time when this car is created. The man was ripped from the newspapers because he "flew" with 13 km/h... So, this car is a monster!

[@jimmyincredible3141]

Now imagine racing 10 or 20 of these on the Nordschleife; or through villages on old tracks like the Coppa Acerbo...there is some old 30s black and white footage of some of the original GP races on YT - you can see they can't put the power down - so they tend to slightly drift these monsters through the corners... its pure madness... If I am not mistaken one of these cars also won the Vanderbilt Cup in the US.

[@jimmyincredible3141]

For example YT link dOm7ier9K6U shows the drifting, tight courses, and the visitors just standing next to the track...footage sadly also shows quite clearly why the political climate these races happened in makes it a problem for a YT reaction...

[@FordFlathead337]

Found some more details on this monster. Its got a 6 liter V16 with a roots supercharger. 520hp and a weight of only 820kg The top speed is around 195 mph with the regular bodywork and 211 mph with the streamlined bodywork.

[@TheLtData]

As an Audi fan this is my all-time favourite car. It was perfection on wheels. Even replicas cost millions on auctions. Great video!

[@probegtdriver7622]

Imagine you're at a racetrack and a pack of them comes up the straight. Under full load and shifting up the gears. Pure goose bumps.

[@Hans_Schwach]

You should also check Mercedes-Benz's "Silver Arrow" and 500K/540K of this period.

[@andreasszeike958]

The car with the double rear tires was designed for,Back than, the famos uphill races. Simular to the US Pikes Peak hill climb. With its 520 hp and a huge torque from 6005 cc worldwide, the Type C was the world's most powerful formula racing car. The year 1936 was the most successful in Auto Union's racing history.

[@xlumino4372]

Great machine! some short historical explaination about Audi: Auto Union was a car-group like GM for example. Wanderer is one part of this group and bought the development work to that race car of Porsche (at this time known as an engineering comp.) The cars like the Typ C were made in the plants of Horch (wich was the first company founded by August Horch - his second company after leaving Horch was Audi). The for rings stood for Wanderer Horch, DKW and Audi. After WWII the east-located Auto Union has been "re-born" to supply businesses relating to the DKW vehicle fleet in Europe and only 1965 the first "new" Audi has been released. So there is a gap between the east car-maker tradition and the modern car brand Audi.

[@ExUSSailor]

The first V-16 production car was built by Cadillac in 1930.

[@fromgermany271]

But optimized in a different way 😂

[@pietergreveling]

You should check out the new Donkervoort F22, it's the 21st century bullet car, it has 500 hp, only weighs 750 kilos, 100 km/h in 2.5 seconds and 200 km/h in 7.5 while being a manual, it shattered the existing production car record for dynamic cornering power, clocking 2.3G of lateral acceleration and it's road legal, so the ultimate driving experience and you really have to work to drive this car! 💥🤯 The specs don't lie! 🤷🏻‍♂️✌🏼

[@JonnyWho]

For something truly nuts, look up John Dodd's "The Beast". Home built originally with a tank engine. After that crashed and caught fire, he rebuilt it with a 27 litre Merlin engine and road registered! It was in the Guiness book of records as the worlds most powerful car in the 70s. The car was sold recently for £72k.

[@DenUitvreter]

Cadillac has made a V16 too, but got topped by the Duesenberg straight-8 4 valve per cilinder supercharger with it's 400HP as the ultimate car. The 20's roared in more than one way, especially at the top end with lots of insanely rich people before the war at both sides at the pond. V16's, superchargers, multivalve, mid engines, 250 mp/h, hybrids, front wheel drive, folding rooftop convertibles, ABS (crude), pop up headlights, it all happened already before WWII.

[@TerryD15]

Hi Ian, there were beasts of cars also being built in Britain in the early parts of last century, and we had a banked 'NASCAR style' racetrack which was a form of banked oval built at Brooklands in Surrey. The building began in 1906 and racing first started a couple of years later. A Grand Prix race was also held there. Although competitive car and motorbike races were the most popular, there was also a concentration on speed records. This led to the building of cars such as the Napier Railton, with a W12, almost 1500 Cu. in. aircraft engine-, but unlike the Auto Union it was conventionally mounted in front of the driver. It was commissioned by John Cobb who broke the world record 47 times at Brooklands, in France and at the salt flats in Utah between 1933 and 1937. There was a lot of competition between Cobb and Malcolm Campbell for the World land speed record, Campbell driving a Sunbeam, which he named Bluebird (he and his son Donald was also record holder on water as well as land and all the vehicles and boats had the same name). Campbell broke the record several times in the mid 1920s and reached over 141 mph in his V12 350hp Sunbeam at Pendine sands. He later broke the lap record at Brooklands in the 1930s in a streamlined Chrysler six. Cobb fought back with a Railton special with a streamlined body using 2 Napier W12 engines coupled together making 2700 hp. In 1938, he managed 353.3 MPH, but after much development by the Mobil oil company it finally managed over 394 mph in 1947 (development held up by a certain war). There were many other such beasts made here, but they were specials, not intended for production or road use. The Napier's are preserved at motor museums in the UK, one being at the site of Brooklands. There are various films, both modern and contemporary, on KZbin, well worth a browse. You could start here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYnOYXmErbSDesUsi=Sqc4CPLAlxkVVjwv as short 7 minute modern history film of Brooklands.

[@peteralt9490]

The version with the double rear tires is the so called Bergrennwagen, made especially for mountain races, driven by Hans Stuck...

[@stuborn-complaining-german]

For the time those tires were considered "ultrawide"... 😆

[@Fwuedwikk]

This car sounds almost as good as the 1934 Mercedes W25 Silberpfeil, watched some videos of it going up Klausenpassrennen a couple of years ago and could not believe the sound of that Supercharger straight 8

[@arconeagain]

I love straight eights.

[@christophfriedrich5289]

The real shocker is, that Mercedes Benz had a real beast in development at the time they raced for the top speed record against Audi, the T-80, a 3 axle aeroplane driven beast. Sadly it was lost in WW2 and couldn't set the projected record of around 750km/h because they repurposed the engine for a fighter plane, but it would have produced something along the lines of 2.2 MW(around 3,000hp). They restored one Chassis and are displaying it in a museum, looks almost like a spaceship

[@rasmuswi]

THere's a lot of people who try to persuade Mercedes to build a T-80 from the drawings, to see how fast it would be. SO far, they have refused.

[@changsangma1915]

​@@rasmuswi.....yeah for a company that made the AMG Project 1 hypercar i wonder why they refuse to.

[@Nobodyisperfect-us6pk]

@@changsangma1915 Because the T80 will be a killer. If anything will go wrong at 700 or 750 km/h or even at "only" 400 km/h, there will be just nothing left, also no driver; this was perhaps acceptable in the 30th but we are now in the year 2024. They have had the engine power, perhaps also just enough knowledge of aerodynamics, to do it, but in the 30th or begin of the 40th, they have had not the needed quality for the rest, like modern steel and alluminum alloys, springs and dumpers, breaks, torsion bars e.g. So in best case, there will be a 50/50 chance of a record or a several kilometers long debris field. Or a record and the kilometers long debris field just after the record has been broken.

[@luizde-rossi643]

Yes, man! Finally the Auto Union! Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has driven one. My suggestion is a video called 7 minutes of pure Ferrari 250 GTO Hillclimb bliss. It's a symphony. This sound series is so cool! Keep it up! ✌🏽🤘🏽

[@Tom-Lahaye]

I just couldn't hold it 🤣🤣seeing your reaction! But I have to admit, this is one of the freakiest sounding race cars ever, they knew how to build engines then. Much better sound than modern F1, and these even do have not that much more power, let's say the average car is the difference. Scary yes! The type C could reach over 200mph! Another freaky sounding Audi, and one of my favourite all time motorsport cars is the Audi S1 Quatro rally car, and then the one that went up Pikes peak with Walther Röhrl setting a new record back in 1987, you could do an episode on that one as his driving technique was insane and never seen up to then.

[@jorgearg8701]

This was a product that was a consequence of the Luftwaffe R&D department. Germany had banned R&D in most of the airfield, so they do this kind of things, developped technology in various areas that was meant to be used in aircraft machinery.

[@carstenf279]

The dual wheels were for hill climbs only. Grand Prix mode was single wheels only.

[@Jay-xw9ll]

It's raw. When it gets further away, its still loud but the echoes make it sound like an actual monster. You could scare your kids with stories about that noise?

[@kohlenstoffeinheit5298]

Audi kept the tradition of wheelspin. The 1986 Audi Sport Quattro S1 in full power configuration had wheelspin up to 3rd gear, but on all FOUR wheels😁

[@sendmeaemailto]

Sounds like a hungry T-Rex

[@superaids404]

Yes, it sounds like Cthulhu.. 😄

[@easy_watching]

on that topic i just recently watched a documentary about the 1930's Grand Prix racing and the rivalery of Mercedes and Auto-Union. It's probably too long to react to, but really interessting nonetheless. It was called "1930s Grand Prix - Hitler's Supercars - History Documentary" on KZbin

[@djambush360]

9:03 This is Hans Joachim "Strietzel" Stuck. Very popular German race driver. He drove in the F1 series. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Joachim_Stuck

[@dinger40]

BRM did a V16 in 1947 (British Racing Motors supercharged 1.5-litre (90.8 cu. in.)) and an H 16 2,999 cc (183.0 cu in) in 1966. vids of them running are about om KZbin

[@Kent.]

Of the 4 Auto Union racing cars, the Types A, B and C, used from 1934 to 1937 had supercharged V16 engines, and the final car, the Type D used in 1938 and 1939 (built to new 1938 regulations), had a supercharged 3L V12 that developed almost 550 horsepower.

[@stephenwest9757]

It is not just the power but the torque and low weight. According to Wikipedia the type C specs are as follows 485-520 PS (357-382 kW; 478-513 hp) @ 5,000 rpm 882 N⋅m (651 lbf⋅ft) @ 2,500 rpm 824 kg (1,817 lb) This combined with the tyres explains wheel spin at over 100mph

[@bennyhannover9361]

There is a video from 1962 Hermann Lang driving the Mercedes W125 from 1937 on Nordschleife of Nürburgring with commentary from F1Champion 1962 Graham Hill… when you see this 600 bhp in motion you are scared

[@vereybowring]

My favourite sounding car is the Aston Martin Vulcan, not only a beast but I think a fantastic looking machine. Not an old car but built without loads of electronics.

[@blackbird6410]

That sounds like a T-Rex is emerging out of the forest and roaring: believe me im really hungry

[@PAFYZ665]

the driver in this film is Hans Stuck.....that one who won many TRANSAM & IMSA Races with Audi and his Dad drove this V16.....named the hillking

[@JHakala-xx4sb]

T80 was also designed by F. Porsche

[@julianbarber4708]

Wow!...that thing sounds like a big cat purring!

[@kristoffermangila]

Ferdinand Porsche actually designed a street-legal version of these racecars, known as the Type 52. Its a three-seater ala McLaren F1, and it was projected to be fast. Unfortunately it was canceled in 1935, but Audi commissioned an English coachbuilder to make a replica last year. It was unveiled at the 2024 Goodwood Festival of Speed a few days ago.

[@JokerInk-CustomBuilds]

11:28 It just sounds like a raging mad bear roaring its ass off while blasting around in the forest hills. Absolutely insane sound!! :D

[@HikaruCh.]

2:40 Listen to its roar, majestic metal beast 😍

[@johnchristmas7522]

Have to tell you , one of the AUTO UNION (1939)v12 race cars went up for sale at Bonhams (Pebble Beach) in the USA. It finally sold for over $3,000,000! (It was originally up for sale at Christies in London but was withdrawn because Christies could not prove its provenance- probably only one or two left in the world)

[@matth4638]

Perfect response there Ian to the magnificent sound this beast makes.

[@alexandruianu8432]

Now you need to check out the Mercedes W154 from 1938 - supercharged V12, over 150 hp/L, and sounds even better.

[@scottgraham9279]

my top 2 cars for noise would be this, auto union and the 7-litre V8 McLaren M8F Can-Am .. awesome brutes!!

[@waynec3563]

The Type C was built to the 750kg regulations (1934-1937), which didn't limit the size of the engines, but the maximum weight of the car. The Type D was built for the 1938 regulations, which limited engine size to 3.0L supercharged. The Type C beat the Mercedes-Benz W25, but was well beaten by the Mercedes-Benz W125. The Mercedes-Benz W154 dominated 1938 and 1939. You definitely need to react to the Mercedes-Benz GP cars of the era.

[@Dangaio]

Back in the 30s, tires were basically bmx bike tires, torque regularly outdid traction, and grip/turning was more of a hint than a cutting turn-in.

[@MilosBrajkovic-rc3ik]

Diagonal tires.

[@dkugi7635]

Januar 1938 zum finalen Geschwindigkeits-Duell der beiden. Mit 432,7 km/h über die Reichsautobahn, heute der Autobahnabschnitt der A5 zwischen Frankfurt/Main und Darmstadt. sorry for German, but these Car was an Monster !!!

[@kennethburridge862]

They might look slow, but the topspeed was actually 340 km pr hour og 210 Mph..and that is crazy

[@PiersDJackson]

Ian, the Bugatti Veyron uses a W16, which is a slight misnomer it is if you consider a V8 as having two banks of 4 cylinders offset from each other from a common block at from 60° to 180° (although above 170° could be called a Boxer), however Volkswagen (who own Bugatti) developed their VR (Verkürzt Reihenmotor or shortened inline engine) which is any configuration of between 3 and 8 cylinders, shortened the crankshaft length by having the cylinders offset at a narrow angle of 15° and then laterally, with three camshafts (an inlet cam either side of the midline exhaust cam). So take a pair of VR8 engine blocks then offset them from each other by 60° on a common crank. Other V16's in use include the classics from the 1930's from Cadillac (which was virtually two Buick straight-8's on a common crank at 45°), and the Marmon Motor Car Company. Then in the 90's Cizeta-Moroder developed V16 to be mounted transversely, and in the 2000's Cadillac built a "Sweet Sixteen" concept with a hand built engine, and BMW built V16's for the Rolls-Royce EX100 prototype (intended for serial production in the Phantom).

[@Dirk-Ulowetz]

In the 80ies, there where a lot of crazy cars, like Ferrari F40, Bugatti EB 110, Lamborghini Countach. And one car with 16 cylinders. Cizeta Moroder V16T. And you should clearly look to Mercedes Benz Silver Arrows from the 30ies. Very impressive cars, too.

[@scotthammer4007]

One of my all time favorite cars. Love the dually rears! V16’s have the absolute best “v8” sound. I could listen to auto Unions and BRMs all day

[@Bacchus001]

The driver leaning on the car had to hold his balls they were that big!!

[@petrissmalga1993]

Nice content. ❤ mby bro please react a Bruce Wilson? some Scanias 3 in USA . Also good series to react when Bruce go to Finland.

[@chipstergaz4012]

Told you about this monster about a year ago it’s got the sound of the devil !!!! But amazing

[@conallmclaughlin4545]

Just imagine the guts they had to properly race these things... And the adrenaline rush it would have been.

[@yambo59]

Auto Unions were soooo fast and could beat anything on the track, but they were also very hard to hold onto and some called them widow makers because of how hard they were to handle - you wont see anyone today running this one all out full throttle they especially in the curves

[@Iam-mad]

This "F1" car developed by Ferdinand Porsche was the very first step to put the engine behind the driver, what was an extreme early time to predict the future, when You consider even in the 60ies F1 had the engines still in front...

[@panchomcsporran2083]

May I sugest reacting to...."the beast-John Dodd" or the Tyrell P34 six wheeler or the Brabham BT46 fan car, or even the new Speirling McMurtry. Apologies if you have already.

[@zagrepcanin82]

the emblem of 4 rings is Auto Union. it was merging of DKW,Wanderer,Audi and Horch.

[@johnpoile1451]

One to add to your Sweet 16 list is B.R.M.'s H16 Grand Prix engine. Effectively one flat 8 atop another flat 8.

[@tobihaifisch7558]

8:58 That is Hans-Joachim Stuck, former F1 driver and (Vice-)Champion for Audi in the IMSA, paticipated in the TransAm Audi 200 and was DTM Champion (Audi V8). His father (!) Hans drove the Auto Union Typ A to D between 1934 to 1939.

[@izno73]

There was a Cadillac V16 in the 1930s. And a weird closely-no-Lambo, the Cizeta Moroder, named by the Musician, constructed by an ex-Lambo engineer named Mr. Zonda...also with a V16.

[@thalamay]

If you like this, you’ll also have to look at the competitors from Stuttgart, the Mercedes-Benz W25 and W125. And while you‘re at it, check out the 1937 AVUS race. It was a Formula Libre race, meaning a race without any restrictions. That’s where the aerodynamic variant of the Type C raced which you’ve soon on Wikipedia. It was an absolutely crazy race. It was so hard on the tires (which were terrible back then) that they had to change them every other lap or so. Still, the cars were so freaking fast that they set a record for highest average speed which stood until the 1970s, when a new record was set at the Indy 500. Almost 40 years later (!!!). Unfortunately, the videos on this race which you can find all have fake sound. Apparently, they didn’t record sound back then. But it’s still awesome to watch.

[@thalamay]

There’s a video called "Grand Prix 1937" which gives a short recap of maybe the most awesome season of motor racing in history. The cars would never be the same.

[@thalamay]

Another recommendation is "German Autobahn: How The "Avus" Racetrack Became The Blueprint For The Autobahn".

[@LRSNRCNG309]

It always amazes me that it took so long for f1 cars to actually start get more advanced handling n braking, but every year from the start they were just adding more and more unusable power cuz people back then thought that power was all you needed. Just simply amazing

[@briancooper562]

Dual wheels where used in hill climbs. As a driver you had to be able to control drifting on corners (also straights). It has to be remembered these engine designs where destined for aircraft. These cars where seen in the UK at GPs at Castle Donington and hill climbs at Rest and be Thankfull and Glen Coe in Scotland in the 30's. The Germans in the 30's where also after speed records hence the super streamlined cars.

[@AHVENAN]

Cadillac also made a car with 16 cylinders back in the 30's known as the Cadillac V-16 or just Cadillac Sixteen, and then they made a woking prototype of one in 2003 as a homage to the original!

[@renepinos3236]

Horch means "hearing" and Audi(o) too. Go on guy.

[@antivanti]

Another engine sound I love, which is very different, is vintage SAAB rally cars with 2-stroke engines. Sounds like an angry chainsaw on steroids coming through the forest 😊

[@ManWithBeard1990]

An interesting tidbit is that the modern-day Audi is indeed a descendant from Auto Union, but it is far more closely related to DKW than it is to the original Audi brand that entered Auto Union.

[@InquisitiveBaldMan]

The king of the 1930s was the Mercedes W125. It did 200mph on spokes with barely any brakes and dominated F1 at the time. They had to change the rules to stop them. Mercedes made a Rekordwagen version which was the same base with a high speed aerodynamic shell on it (looking like it was from the future). It did 269mph on one of Hitlers new autobahns. The fastest speed on a public road until the Koenigsegg in 2017. A certain Ferdinand Porsche then designed a Mercedes T80 to further push the same record but WW2 meant it never happened.

[@rasmuswi]

Yeah, up to 595 horse power in a 750 kg car! And of course the record car had even more power... Race cars didn't exceed 550 hp again until the late 1960s!

[@Rudyw1977]

In 2003 Cadillac showed on the New York motorshow a Cadillac Sixteen. It had a 890 cu*in/13,6 liter 32v V16. It produced 746kw/1014bhp and 1000lb*ft/1356Nm of torque. Unfortunatelly it was only a conceptcar, but worth checking out on Wikipedia

[@johnd8892]

Inspired by the 1930 Cadillac V16 production car perhaps.

[@Rudyw1977]

@@johnd8892 could well be. I love the concept car anyway.

[@toomasargel8503]

04:43 Econommic "alarm clock "... ride with this race car on street early morning ca 6 AM and never ever nobody get late to work or school.. LOL:

[@Astrofrank]

Ian, I love your enthusiasm.

[@cyberfutur5000]

8:40 TBF, it's from 1930's Germany, it sort of comes straight from hell.

[@vinniamsterdam700]

That's so great about this series, we are not searching for the best sounding car, we are just enjoying the best sounding cars!!!!!!

[@mhh7544]

It was way ahead of time F1 car. Some wings in back and front, and there it is.

[@wirtnix]

if i remember correctly, then one of these cars still holds the current speed cecord on a german Autobahn. more than 400 Km/h

[@grantmarchesi4899]

Back in the late 1920s in to the late 1930s you could buy a Cadillac with a V16. Also, when BMW took control of Rolls Royce and started to develop the Phantom in the late 90s, they originally planned it to have a V16, in fact they did build 1 as a fully functioning prototype, but instead opted to go with the V12 instead.

[@nick7076]

Need to check out the Goodwood festival of speed and the Goodwood revival hill climb. Serious cars with serious drivers doing serious speed

[@simonatkinson1107]

What scares me was the professional drivers during actual races used to Deliberately power slide them around corner to get them to turn at speed. I agree that you should check out the Mercedes Silver Arrow cars. Beauty and speed. A 1960’s one you should see (and hear) is the F1 Ferrari 156 ‘Sharknose’. It only had a 1.5 litre V6 engine but it howls when they accelerate hard. Despite it winning championships Enzo Ferrari had them all destroyed when they were no longer needed, so all the ones you see now are replicas.

[@ChrisBl33p]

1:23 you should also check out the the BRM V16. They also made an H16 a few years later.

[@kevo6190]

I want 1... I imagine the neighbours wouldn't take long to circulate the petition to get that noisy thing out of the street. Wow. Best sound ever!

[@trespire]

If you haven't already, listen to a Maserati 250 or 300 driven in anger, or an Alfa Romeo 308, or the "symphony" of a tipo 159 "Alfetta". And if you want to go off the deep end, look at the twin engined 1935 Alfa Romeo Bimotore. It has 2 Ferrari engines.

[@larstragl146]

Horch and Audi were founded by the same man, August Horch. First he founded Horch, but lost control over the company and left it. So he founded Audi, which is the latin translation of his name, but left that company as well... Later on he was in the supervisory board of Auto Union.

[@daphnelovesL]

Jan de Rooy the man how almost won Paris Dakar in a semi! 1988

[@martindonat3249]

AUDI classics still has a few of them ,and they keep theyr cars driveworthy ,there are a not many vids out theyr with walkthroughs of the "holly chambers" the cars in there will blow your mind

[@Ulexcool]

And all of that power using a single USB Type C.

[@darkmatter6714]

It sounds like an angry T-Rex

[@motinolawson6638]

There was such a good technology already at '30s. We never knows what will happen if never was a WW2...

[@PlasmaLP39]

Another awesome Video you could watch is the Magnus Walker Midnight Rambler Video where you can enjoy the old air cooled Flat 6 Symphony in high quality. If you want to hear a modern car with a unique sound I would suggest the Gordon Murray Automotive T.50! (Street legal Fancar)

[@coletrickle-km7cl]

Other crazy race cars to check out: How quiet a jet engine powered indycar is. 1952 cummins diesel powered indycar. Early 1980's BMW 1.8 liter 4 cylinder turbo F-1 Engine 1,400hp at 11,000 RPM in qualifying trim. A strait piped porsche 928 V-8. The 4.0 liter V-8's the 1990'S IRL Indycars sounded like a nascar race car. The anadial porsche 964 generation carrera 911 with a racing porsche 962 engine. Spittin' flames! BMW X-5 lemans SUV with racing 6 liter V-12. RA121E 1991 3.5 liter honda V-12 F-1 engine (I wanna stuff that engine in a S2000 or a NSX)