You Have To See This Ridiculous 1930s V16 Dually
The pre-war period was a weird time for Grand Prix cars. Engineers had figured out that by cramming more fuel and air…
A New World Of Economical Motoring
Welcome to Paper Jam, the feature where we highlight the best automotive advertisements from the past! Print might be…
This Guy Raced A Tiny Two-Stroke DKW Surrounded By Lions In Africa
Long before Audi, there was DKW and Auto Union. If you thought Saab two-strokes were the business, check out what a…
The Supercar’s New Clothes
We love our supercars to death. We obsess over their top speeds and great power. But what is it like to actually use…
Tazio Nuvolari, deer hunter with Silver Arrow
Hunting game and racing cars are generally pursued as separate pastimes, but not by Tazio Nuvolari at the 1938…
The forgotten Audi supercar that was never built
Auto Union's Grand Prix racecars of the 1930s were the greatest the world had ever seen. But few know the story of the…
Budapest’s secret Grand Prix street circuit
This Sunday will mark the 75th anniversary of the Hungarian Grand Prix, an event held since…1986. Fifty years before…
Ken Block explains hooning to Hans Stuck
So there's Hans Stuck, sitting in his dad's Auto Union grand prix car, and all he wants to know is "What is hooning?"…
All Silver Arrows, all the time
If you like your race cars silver, wicked and German, Motorhome is a tumblr you should check out: nothing but photos of…
Silver Arrows In Flight
Formula 1 racers Jacky Ickx and Hans-Joachim Stuck took to the streets of Monaco last May in Auto Union Silver Arrows…
Take a Look Around the Argentine Auto Union Factory in 1960
Auto Union was the result of the merger of 4 German car companies formed in 1932. Few are aware during the 1960s, the…
The 1936 Auto Union Type C Unpeeled
This stuff'll keep engineer kids up all night. The third of Auto Union's Grand Prix racecars, the 1936 Typ(e) C sparred…
Kids’ Fashion Meets 1930’s Silver Arrow Race Car
In a case of visual merchandising gone slightly weird, this is a display window of the Italian fashion brand Benetton…
Audi R8 V10: The Supercar's New Clothes
We love our supercars to death. We obsess over their top speeds and great power. But what is it like to actually use…
Rolling DKW Style
Think super-serious Audi would run an ad like this nowadays?
Don't Forget The 2-Stroke Oil! DKWs For '64
Dampf-Kraft-Wagen! One of the all-time great car-company names was phased out by Auto Union not long after this jaunty…
Remembering Bernd Rosemeyer
It was 72 years ago on this day that Bernd Rosemeyer flipped his streamlined V16 Auto Union on the Autobahn at 268 MPH…
Happy 100th Birthday, Bernd Rosemeyer
Auto Union’s fearless prewar grand prix driver, who died 71 years ago in a 270 MPH crash on the public road, has turned…
Bernd Rosemeyer, Now In Chocolate Form
You can buy a bar of Belgian chocolate with Bernd Roseyemer’s Auto Union Type C on the wrapper. Just make sure you don’t…
Ferdinand Porsche - Genesis Of Genius by Karl Ludvigsen
You know how a lot of marque-specific car books tend to be a bit on the lightweight side? A couple of anecdotes about…