It’s full throttle for Audi Tradition as the 2012 season gets under way. Car enthusiasts can see its historic vehicles at more than 25 events throughout Europe during the year. In Monaco, legendary Formula 1 driver Jacky Ickx will be at the controls personally to drive the Auto Union Type D Silver Arrow dating from 1938 through the Principality. Nor would the list of events be complete without the Mille Miglia. And this year’s Audi Tradition display at the “Techno Classica” in Essen, the world’s largest historic car show, is twice the size of last year’s: valuable vehicles from the company’s history will be seen on more than 700 square metres of floor space. Continue reading ‘Experience historic Audi Tradition vehicles at 25 events’
- Special exhibition at the Audi museum mobile
- Attendance at the world’s largest classic car show, the Techno Classica in Essen
- Extensive historical programme for 2010
This year Audi once again has many historically significant events to celebrate, with one especially important anniversary: 30 years of quattro. At the world’s largest classic car show, the Techno Classica in Essen, Germany (April 7 – 11), Audi Tradition will therefore be exhibiting four Audi quattro models of outstanding interest. And at the museum mobile in the Audi Forum Ingolstadt, there will be a special exhibition from April 28 to July 31 devoted to ‘30 Years of quattro’. This year Audi Tradition is taking its motor-vehicle treasures to an unusually large number of events. (continue reading…)
75 years ago, the Auto Union Silver Arrows went to the starting grid for the first time on the Avus circuit in Berlin
Auto Union and Mercedes Benz dominated international motor racing between 1934 and 1939
75 years ago, one of the most dramatic chapters in the whole of motor sport history began. On May 27, 1934 the German racing cars that were soon to acquire the nickname ‘Silver Arrow’ were entered for their first race, on the Avus racetrack in Berlin. Although neither Auto Union, the company from which Audi in its present-day form developed later, nor Mercedes Benz won that event, it was not long before these two manufacturers began to dominate international Grand Prix racing, a situation that prevailed until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. It seems almost incredible today, but by 1936 the Auto Union racing cars were reaching speeds of up to 380 kilometres an hour on the long straights of the Avus circuit – truly, the birth of a legend.
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Wow. Wow. Wow. This has to be one of the best works of taking a old auto design and creating a new concept that is just spot on. Even down the matching of engine power from then to now. The 650 W12 seems to be making its way into a few cars. Hmmm… More images after the jump!
The 2008 Auto Union Type-D concept is a creation of Lukas Vanek, a young designer from the Czech Republic. In 2008 Vanek graduated from the Europeo di Design (IED) in Torino, Italy after completing a three year postdiploma transportation design course. Prior to these studies Vanek had finished a masters course in industrial design at the TBU university in Zlin, where he was awarded a scholarship to study at IED. Continue reading ’2008 Auto Union Type-D Concept’
