One rumor claims Audi AG didn't like the way the cars were depicted.
I’m a big fan of The Little Wonders, or, as the Germans say it, Das-Kleine-Wunder, or, as we see it on cars, DKW.…
The pre-war period was a weird time for Grand Prix cars. Engineers had figured out that by cramming more fuel and…
Welcome to Paper Jam, the feature where we highlight the best automotive advertisements from the past! Print might…
Long before Audi, there was DKW and Auto Union. If you thought Saab two-strokes were the business, check out what a…
We love our supercars to death. We obsess over their top speeds and great power. But what is it like to actually use…
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Hunting game and racing cars are generally pursued as separate pastimes, but not by Tazio Nuvolari at the 1938…
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Auto Union's Grand Prix racecars of the 1930s were the greatest the world had ever seen. But few know the story of…
This Sunday will mark the 75th anniversary of the Hungarian Grand Prix, an event held since…1986. Fifty years before…
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So there's Hans Stuck, sitting in his dad's Auto Union grand prix car, and all he wants to know is "What is…
If you like your race cars silver, wicked and German, Motorhome is a tumblr you should check out: nothing but photos…
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Formula 1 racers Jacky Ickx and Hans-Joachim Stuck took to the streets of Monaco last May in Auto Union Silver…
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Auto Union was the result of the merger of 4 German car companies formed in 1932. Few are aware during the 1960s,…
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This stuff'll keep engineer kids up all night. The third of Auto Union's Grand Prix racecars, the 1936 Typ(e) C…
In a case of visual merchandising gone slightly weird, this is a display window of the Italian fashion brand…
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We love our supercars to death. We obsess over their top speeds and great power. But what is it like to actually use…
Think super-serious Audi would run an ad like this nowadays?
Dampf-Kraft-Wagen! One of the all-time great car-company names was phased out by Auto Union not long after this…
It was 72 years ago on this day that Bernd Rosemeyer flipped his streamlined V16 Auto Union on the Autobahn at 268…
Auto Union’s fearless prewar grand prix driver, who died 71 years ago in a 270 MPH crash on the public road, has…
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