Audi type SS
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Type SS | |
Sales designation: | Zwickau |
Production period: | 1929-1932 |
Class : | Upper class |
Body versions : | Pullman limousine , convertible |
Engines: |
Otto engine : 5.1 liters (74 kW) |
Length: | 4965 mm |
Width: | 1780 mm |
Height: | 1870 mm |
Wheelbase : | 3500 mm |
Empty weight : | 2100 kg |
Previous model | Audi type R |
The Audi type SS - or Audi Zwickau - is a passenger car of the superclass with eight-cylinder engine by the Audiwerke in Zwickau as a successor of the type R "Emperor" brought out.
The SS type was the first new Audi passenger car after the factory was taken over by Zschopauer Motorenwerke JS Rasmussen AG ( DKW ). The vehicle has a side-controlled in - line engine with 5.1 liter displacement installed at the front . It develops 100 hp (74 kW) at 3000 min -1 and drives, via a four-speed gearbox with gear lever in the center of the car, the rear wheels. The engines were American designs and were manufactured in the DKW branch in Scharfenstein , where the Zschopauer Motorenwerke had set up a new production facility with machines from the former US company Rickenbacker Motor Company . The car had two leaf-sprung rigid axles and hydraulically operated brakes on all wheels. It was available as a four-door Pullman sedan or four-door convertible.
457 copies had been made by 1932.
Technical specifications
Type | SS (20/100 hp) |
Construction period | 1929-1932 |
Superstructures | PL4, Cb4 |
engine | 8 cyl. Row 4 bars |
Valves | standing (sv) |
Bore × stroke | 3.25 inches (82.55 mm) x 4.75 inches (120.65 mm) |
Displacement | 5130 cc |
Horsepower) | 100 |
Power kW) | 74 |
consumption | |
Top speed | 120 km / h |
Empty weight | 2100 kg |
Perm. total weight | |
Electrics | 12 volts |
length | 4965 mm |
width | 1780 mm |
height | 1870 mm |
wheelbase | 3500 mm |
Front / rear track | 1440 mm / 1480 mm |
Turning circle |
- PL4 = 4-door Pullman - Limousine
- Cb4 = 4-door convertible
swell
- Werner Oswald : German Cars 1920–1945. Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 10th edition (1996), ISBN 3-87943-519-7
Web links
- www.audi.com - History 1919–1932: Audi type SS “Zwickau” Pullman sedan (1929) , roll-top sedan (1930) and other models