The Forgotten Silver Arrow: Auto Union Type 52

[@dcoop05]

A fascinating machine. Thank you for the video Maurice

[@horsepowerheritage]

Cheers, my friend!

[@jedgarsquink]

Windshield looks like contemporary Tatra, showing influence of Ledwinka on Porsche.

[@Sai.the.Breizh.Pirate]

you're right 👍, I would say not only the windshield look to a Tatra but almost the entire back of this Auto-Union Schnell SportWagen 😉

[@bilplaymo6121]

it was the period, of course they all cars manufacturers was watching what others made, Tatra was only serious rival ( may be with alfa and a new sedan racer ) for a touring racer car races agenda...what amazing model anyway !

[@maciejgajoch1774]

First Hypercar!

[@eduardorogeliorodriguez7012]

Bellisimo

[@andreasvenator]

If it works don´t fix it! The front looks an awful lot like the famous Embiricos Bentley whose body was built in Paris just before the start of WW II based on a then regualr Bentley chassis with a standard 4 1/2 liter engine. The design made the car so fast that it was even driven to Le Mans by a Brit with his family on board and raced at the 24 hours with top results at least three years in a row by then TEN years after it was built and delivered to its first owner who sold it because he was tired of having all the Bentley boffins test drive it for its first two years after completion.

[@johnpaulmanambit2022]

The audi r8 of their time

[@bilplaymo6121]

Crazy hand made ! if Audi make all genious "Ferdy" Porsche projects alive: job for 100 years

[@jourwalis-8875]

What type of brakes and tyres?

[@robredz]

If I were a billionaire, I would want one of them and ask Audi please build me one.

[@angryhusky2467]

Imagine this design with a modern efficient engine. 😲😲 It would be the most efficient by modern standards.

[@jeanpautot1796]

les critiques sont gratuites,et al l ordre du jour ,c etait une autre époque,une guerre une union,le retour aux sources .🙂

[@porscha901]

ALUMINIUM

[@gordonspencer6186]

This would have been the very first hypercar in history. Imagine, in an alternate universe, this being built under the name "Porsche"... Cudos to Audi going through the process of building it ! I cried, seeing the first video of the moving car, just yesterday. At first I thought it was AI....

[@izoyt]

audi (union) (and mercedes etc) build actual car that went over 400 km/h in 30ties.

[@gordonspencer6186]

@@izoyt Audi never built a car that fast in the 1930s. Audi was one of 4 companies within the AUTO UNION. 4 companies and 4 rings in the AUTO UNION badge: -DKW -Wanderer -Audi -Horch Audi stopped making cars around 1942/1943. And it was until 1965, when VW revived the name again, using the 4 Rings from Auto Union. Audis badge before World War 2 was a fairly large "1" atop the radiator.

[@izoyt]

@@gordonspencer6186 yes, under auto union (my lapsus there) they built Typ C Stromlinie in 1937 that went cca 410kmh on autobahn strip (that was surpassed by mercedes latter i think).

[@ericteng7725]

Is it offered for commercial production, i.e., is it for sale?

[@horsepowerheritage]

No, it's basically a show car

[@simonrefn]

Let’s hear that enginge @audi 😅 It seems a bit rediculous to build this car 90 years too late and make a video without any sounds of the car 😂😂😂

[@daftbence]

I know right! Such a mistake not having engine sounds...

[@angryhusky2467]

Felt really bad that we didn't get to hear what this masterpiece says.😢😢😢

[@vadimbecker9934]

very similar to Tatra

[@gomosh6967]

Yes! I agree with you.

[@anthonqx22]

Prehistoric veyron

[@PedroHenriquePS00000]

This is what a vilan would drive

[@EranAranAriel]

It resembles a VW beetle that got stretched around using photoshop

[@jeff119990]

beetle long tail

[@bilplaymo6121]

bettle under steroid ! lol or beetle sleeping with record lake speed car = this !

[@EranAranAriel]

@@jeff119990 Ferdinand Porsche got lazy on design lol

[@kingearl2596]

Yout Video is right, but I want to explain something: AUDI went bankrupt in 1936(!!), Horch and Wanderer because of WW2. The only surviving Brand of Auto-Union is NOT Audi, it's DKW. DKW built twostrokers until they were out of time and so in the last moment they decided to build modern 4-stroke engined cars. But the Brand DKW was so viewed badly, that nobody wanted to buy an DKW. So they sayed: OK, we own the old Brands Audi, Wanderer and Horch; let us switch the Name. Since this time there are so many Audi's on the streets, but this Brand is a Fake; this cars are DKW's made by Volkswagen.

[@gordonspencer6186]

@@kingearl2596 Wrong. Audi built cars until around 1942. DKW was taken over by Mercedes Benz in the late 1950s. They had a 4-stroke engine ready for the DKW F-103 but never fitted it themselves, as Mercedes sold all the DKW facilities to VW before they could. VW took that engine, fitted it into a facelifted DKW F-103 and called it "Audi" using the 4 rings from Auto Union as a badge. The "1", the ORIGINAL Audi badge from prewar, got used by the Audi tuning company "Treser" in the 1980s/1990s, again.

[@kingearl2596]

@@gordonspencer6186 No. There were cars for WW2 built only in the old Audi Factory, but no "Audi" brand car. Audi went bankrupt 1936, only the name of the brand survived.

[@lobsterwhisperer7932]

@@kingearl2596 I can confirm you know your German auto history.

[@gordonspencer6186]

@@lobsterwhisperer7932 I can confirm he is wrong. Audi built the "920" from 1938 to at least 1940. The predecessor was built until 1938. Audi going bankrupt in 1936 is totally wrong. 🥂

[@AngelLopez-hc2df]

❤ Toyota GR Corolla ❤️

[@horsepowerheritage]

3 cyl/300HP, not bad

[@PeterCox-k1w]

Why no engine note, maybe its confected bullshit

[@horsepowerheritage]

Not sure why they didn't release audio, but the engine is the real deal. Crosthwaite & Gardiner are a top-notch engineering firm. I certainly understand your skepticism, though!

[@mankenybom9344]

Music the whole time instead of enginesound (sound pollution as I call it...!) and lots and LOTS of talking. Who the f***k has done this video....? NOT a car lover, that's for sure....!

[@horsepowerheritage]

Thanks for watching! Don't forget to like and subscribe!

[@jourwalis-8875]

Ferdinand Porsche was not a genius! He new nothing about real car design or construction! He was a mere mediocre designer.