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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 |
- L4 = 4-door sedan
- Cb2 = 2-door convertible
Production numbers
month and year | Limousine 4 windows | Limousine 6 windows | Cabriolet 2 windows | Cabriolet 4 windows | chassis | total |
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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 |
swell
- 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
- ↑ 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 )
Web links
- www.audi.com - History 1933–1945: Audi Front UW Sedan, 1934 and other models