Mar 30 2018
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The pre-war period was a weird time for Grand Prix cars. Engineers had figured out that by cramming more fuel and…
Jan 4 2016
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Welcome to Paper Jam, the feature where we highlight the best automotive advertisements from the past! Print might…
Oct 28 2013
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Long before Audi, there was DKW and Auto Union. If you thought Saab two-strokes were the business, check out what a…
Jul 4 2012
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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…
Dec 21 2011
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Hunting game and racing cars are generally pursued as separate pastimes, but not by Tazio Nuvolari at the 1938…
Dec 13 2011
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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…
Jul 29 2011
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This Sunday will mark the 75th anniversary of the Hungarian Grand Prix, an event held since…1986. Fifty years before…
Jul 12 2011
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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…
Mar 18 2011
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If you like your race cars silver, wicked and German, Motorhome is a tumblr you should check out: nothing but photos…
Jan 17 2011
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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…
Jan 8 2011
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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,…
Jan 4 2011
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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…
Sep 6 2010
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In a case of visual merchandising gone slightly weird, this is a display window of the Italian fashion brand…
May 5 2010
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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…
Feb 28 2010
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Feb 21 2010
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Dampf-Kraft-Wagen! One of the all-time great car-company names was phased out by Auto Union not long after this…
Jan 28 2010
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It was 72 years ago on this day that Bernd Rosemeyer flipped his streamlined V16 Auto Union on the Autobahn at 268…
Oct 15 2009
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Auto Union’s fearless prewar grand prix driver, who died 71 years ago in a 270 MPH crash on the public road, has…
Oct 6 2009
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You can buy a bar of Belgian chocolate with Bernd Roseyemer’s Auto Union Type C on the wrapper. Just make sure you do…
Oct 4 2009
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You know how a lot of marque-specific car books tend to be a bit on the lightweight side? A couple of anecdotes…