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Audi type UW
Audi type UW
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Production period: 1933-1934
Class : Middle class
Body versions : Limousine , cabriolet
Engines: Otto engine :
2.0 liters (29 kW)
Length: 4375-4500 mm
Width: 1650 mm
Height: 1575 mm
Wheelbase : 3050-3100 mm
Empty weight : 1275-1300 kg
Previous model Audi type T
successor Audi 225

The Audi Front Type UW is a car of the upper middle class , which the for Auto Union owned brand Audi in February 1933 on the 23rd  International Automobile and Motorcycle Exhibition (IAMA) in Berlin as Germany's first six-cylinder car with front wheel drive introduced. The "U" was used as the successor to the Type T from Audiwerke Zwickau, while the "W" stood for the 2-liter engine from the Wanderer W 22 . After delivering 1817 cars, the successor Audi 225 with 2.3-liter engine was presented at the 25th IAMA in Berlin in February 1935 .

That of Ferdinand Porsche in 1931 for the Wanderer W 20 constructed above controlled line engine with 2 liters of displacement of the Audi UW developed 40 hp at 3500 min -1 . The unsynchronized four-speed gearbox in front of the engine with a gearshift lever on the dashboard drove the front wheels. The car with central box frame has independent wheel suspension at the front with overhead wishbones and transverse leaf springs below and swing arms with transverse leaf springs below. It was available as a four-door "sports sedan" with 4 windows, a four-door sedan with 6 windows or a two-door convertible with either two or four windows.

One year after the start of series production, the production of the Audi UW in Zwickau was relocated to the neighboring Horch plant of Auto Union in order to make room in the Audi plant for the increasing production of DKW front cars . For reasons of capacity, the limousine bodies were manufactured by Horch anyway. Glasses built the convertibles in Dresden using the chassis supplied from Zwickau.

Technical specifications

Type Front 2 liters, UW
Construction period 1933-1934
Superstructures L4, Cb2
engine 6 cyl. Row 4 bars
Valves top steered (ohv)
Bore × stroke 70 mm × 85 mm
Displacement 1949 cc
Horsepower) 40
Power kW) 29
consumption 13 l / 100 km
Top speed 100 km / h
Empty weight 1275-1300 kg
Perm. total weight 1725-1750 kg
Electrics 12 volts
length 4375-4500 mm
width 1650 mm
height 1575 mm
wheelbase 3050-3100 mm
Front / rear track 1350 mm / 1350 mm
Turning circle 12.5 m

Production numbers

month and year Limousine 4 windows Limousine 6 windows Cabriolet 2 windows Cabriolet 4 windows chassis total
April 1933 1 1 2
May 1933 30th 4th 34
June 1933 91 1 2 94
July 1933 27 11 22nd 50
August 1933 2 35 31 32 100
September 1933 43 33 27 103
October 1933 10 31 20th 18th 1 80
November 1933 24 43 16 50 2 135
December 1933 11 51 22nd 22nd 106
January 1934 19th 44 6th 37 106
February 1934 23 55 6th 26th 110
March 1934 8th 16 24 72 120
April 1934 1 15th 18th 92 126
May 1934 3 150
June 1934 152
July 1934 126
August 1934 101
September 1934 64
October 1934 5 20th 9 12 2 48
November 1934 5 4th 1 10

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Commons : Audi Front  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Werner Oswald : German Cars 1920–1945. Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 10th edition (1996), ISBN 3-87943-519-7
  • Peter Kirchberg: Horch, Audi, DKW, IFA, 80 years of history of cars from Zwickau. Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 3rd edition (1991), ISBN 3-344-70708-6

Remarks

  1. ↑ The abbreviation UW was widely interpreted as "inverted Wanderer" because the Wanderer automobiles had rear-wheel drive. The other interpretation, "reversed wanderer engine", resulted from the fact that the front-wheel drive Audi had the transmission in front of the engine, which was therefore installed "reversed" with the clutch at the front. However, both of these do not correspond to the official explanation: "Type U was derived from the Audi alphabet." See Audi Front UW Cabriolet 4-Fenster, 1934 ( Memento from June 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

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