Steyr 120

Steyr
	Steyr 120 Super Limousine (1935)
120 super / 125 super / 220
Production period:	1935-1941
Class :	upper middle class
Body versions :	Roadster , sedan , convertible
Engines:	; Petrol engines : 2.0–2.3 liters ; (37–40 kW)
Length:	4570 mm
Width:	1550-1650 mm
Height:	1570-1600 mm
Wheelbase :	2830 mm
Empty weight :	1100-1260 kg

The Steyr 120 Super is a car of the upper middle class , which the Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG produced from the 1935th The moderately streamlined body was designed by director Karl Jenschke . It essentially corresponded to that of the smaller Steyr 100 . The four-door cars had doors that closed against each other (the front hinged at the front, the rear ones at the rear), whereby the center post - the B-pillar - was omitted. Their bodies were made by glasses in Dresden .

The car had a six-cylinder in-line engine installed at the front, which drove the rear wheels via a four-speed gearbox. The front wheels were suspended on transverse leaf springs, the rear swing axle had pushed cantilever quarter-elliptic leaf springs . The six-cylinder engines were significantly more powerful than the four-cylinder of the smaller models. Alpine passes such as the Turracher Höhe did not cause any difficulties. Exactly 1200 copies were made by 1936.

In 1936 the car was revised. He got a wider track and a bigger engine with the same power. The new model was mainly sold to Germany as the Steyr 125 Super and remained on sale until 1937. It was only built 200 times.

In 1937 the unchanged body received a larger and more powerful engine. The new Steyr 220 was well known and loved as a powerful car and exactly 5900 units were built by 1941. A copy of this model from 1938 is in the Aspang Automobile Museum in Aspang-Markt in Lower Austria .

The model is famous as the escape car of the concentration camp prisoner Kazimierz Piechowski , who on June 20, 1942 managed to pass the camp gate in a stolen SS uniform with the official car of Auschwitz camp commandant Rudolf Höß and successfully escape.

Technical specifications

Type	120 great	125 (super)	220
Construction period	1935-1936	1936-1937	1937-1941
Superstructures	L4, Cb2, R2	L4, Cb2	L4, Cb2, R2
engine	6 cyl. Row, 4-stroke	6 cyl. Row, 4-stroke	6 cyl. Row, 4-stroke
Valves	hanging (ohv)	hanging (ohv)	hanging (ohv)
Bore × stroke	68.5 mm × 90 mm	70 mm × 90 mm	73 mm × 90 mm
Displacement	1990 cc	2078 cc	2260 cc
Horsepower)	50	50	55
Power kW)	37	37	40
consumption	13 l / 100 km	13 l / 100 km	14 l / 100 km
Top speed	120 km / h	120 km / h	120 km / h
Empty weight	1100-1150 kg	1200-1250 kg	1250-1260 kg
Perm. total weight	1550 kg	1650 kg	1700 kg
Electrics	12 volts	12 volts	12 volts
length	4570 mm	4570 mm	4570 mm
width	1550 mm	1650 mm	1650 mm
height	1570 mm	1600 mm	1600 mm
wheelbase	2830 mm	2830 mm	2830 mm
Front / rear track	1240 mm / 1250 mm	1340 mm / 1340 mm	1340 mm / 1340 mm
Turning circle	12 m	12 m	12 m