Audi 920
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| 920 | |
| Production period: | 1938-1940 |
| Class : | upper middle class |
| Body versions : | Limousine , cabriolet |
| Engines: |
Otto engine : 3.2 liters (55 kW) |
| Length: | 4900 mm |
| Width: | 1720 mm |
| Height: | 1620 mm |
| Wheelbase : | 3100 mm |
| Empty weight : | 1640-1665 kg |
| Previous model | Audi 225 |
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The Audi 920 is a car of the upper middle class with rear-wheel drive , which the for Auto Union owned brand Audi in late 1938 as a successor to the front-wheel drive model modeling Audi 225 brought to market. The chassis and body corresponded to the Wanderer W 23 . Like its predecessor, Auto Union’s Horch plant in Zwickau produced the Audi 920. A total of 1,281 cars (including 795 convertibles ), the last pre-war Audi, were built from December 1938 until it was discontinued due to the war in April 1940.
The six-cylinder - four cycle engine with 3.3 liter displacement and 75 hp (55 kW) at 3000 min -1 was a Solex - carburetor equipped. The inline engine with over vertical shaft driven overhead camshaft based on the eight-cylinder engine of the Horch 850 . The car was originally supposed to come onto the market as a smaller Horch model, but the management of Auto Union decided to position it under the Audi brand between the larger Horch and smaller Wanderer models.
The box-frame car has a hydraulically operated foot brake ("oil pressure brake" from ATE , Lockheed license ) and a fully synchronized four-speed gearbox with a shift lever in the middle of the car. The front wheels are individually suspended on double wishbones , the lower link is the transverse leaf spring, the upper one actuates the shock absorber. A rigid " floating axle " is installed at the rear . which was guided by trailing arms and an overhead transverse leaf spring. The Audi 920 was available as a 4-door sedan (6 windows) or a 2-door convertible (4 windows).
Technical specifications
| Type | 920 |
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| Construction period | 1938-1940 |
| Superstructures | L4, Cb2 |
| engine | Six-cylinder in-line engine (four-stroke) |
| Valve control | overhead camshaft (OHC) |
| Bore × stroke | 87 mm × 92 mm |
| Displacement | 3281 cc |
| Horsepower) | 75 |
| Power kW) | 55 |
| consumption | 16 l / 100 km |
| Top speed | 130 km / h |
| Empty weight | 1640-1665 kg |
| Perm. total weight | 2005-2030 kg |
| Electrics | 12 volts |
| length | 4900 mm |
| width | 1720 mm |
| height | 1620 mm |
| wheelbase | 3100 mm |
| Front / rear track | 1435 mm / 1465 mm |
| Turning circle | 11.5 m |
- L4 = 4-door sedan
- Cb2 = 2-door convertible
source
- Werner Oswald : Deutsche Autos 1920–1945 , Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, 10th edition, ISBN 3-87943-519-7 .
Web links
- www.audi.com - History 1933–1945: Audi 920 Sedan, 1939 and other models
- Technical data: Audi brochure 1939