Auto Union cars - any good?

[Welshbeef]

Seen some nice examples at FOS.

Raid cars? Were they as good as the Dusay? Talk to me

[Doofus]

Welshbeef said:

Talk to me

I would if I had any clue what you were talking about...

[va1o]

Do you mean Audi?

[Welshbeef]

Doofus said:

I would if I had any clue what you were talking about...

The make.
They had long silver racers pre war and oddly put two wheels next to each other per side guess wheels didn't come wider so double up

[Doofus]

Welshbeef said:

The make.
They had long silver racers pre war and oddly put two wheels next to each other per side guess wheels didn't come wider so double up

Yeah, I know that Hoewever, the sentence "Raid cars" stumped me, and I have no idea what a 'Dusay' is.

AFAIR it was only the Type C that had twin rear wheels.

[AndrewW-G]

Simple drunk to English translation . . . . . What were Auto Unions road cars like pre WW2, were they the equal of a Duesenberg.

No they were not as good as a Duesenberg, but still good by the standards of the time, very much a pre-war Audi

[Globs]

I love my Auto Union, great for shopping (easy to park) and easy to work on, so yes, I can recommend them - definitely buy one.

[Chris71]

Can't say I was there at the time, but I think the performance gap to the Bugattis, Alfas etc. was pretty monumental. I'm fairly the Auto Unions clocking nearly 200mph in their ultimate incarnation, when a road car was considered seriously rapid if it could significantly exceed 60.

Random fact of the day... they featured the first limited-slip differentials, designed by one Ferdinand Porsche (or was the the Mercedes W125s? It was one of the Silver Arrows).

[AirThais]

I almost got one but in the end the slightly better economy of the 320d swung it for me