Audi · 1931–1932
Audi Type T
The Audi Type T was a large, 6-cylinder-powered sedan/saloon car introduced by Audi in 1931. It was in most respects a scaled-down version of the manufacturer's Type SS "Zwickau", which had appeared two years earlier. Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen, the Danish-born entrepreneurial industrialist who had purchased Audi-Werke in 1928, had previously, in 1927, purchased the manufacturing plant of the bankrupt Detroit-based Rickenbacker business and shipped it home to Germany. He installed it in a factory he owned just outside Zschopau, near to Audi's own Zwickau plant. The plan was to build large, relatively inexpensive US-style engines for sales to other German auto-makers. The plan failed in that Rasmussen failed to secure any orders for the engines, so he instead produced two models of his own which used engines produced using the Rickenbacker plant. The Audi Type T (Zwickau) was the second and smaller of these. The vehicle had a six-cylinder engine with 3,838 cc of displacement. It developed a maximum output of 75 PS (55 kW; 74 hp) at 3,200 rpm, which was conveyed to the rear wheel through a four-speed manual transmission controlled using a central floor-mounted lever. The car had two leaf-sprung solid axles and four-wheel hydraulic brakes. It was available as four-door "Limousine" (sedan) or two-door convertible. 76 were made.
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Specifications
== Sources == Oswald, Werner: Deutsche Autos 1920–1945, Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 10. Auflage (1996 edition), ISBN 3-87943-519-7 Oswald, Werner (2001). Deutsche Autos 1920–1945, Band (vol) 2 (in German). Motorbuch Verlag. ISBN 3-613-02170-6.
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Specifications
- name
- Audi Type T
- aka
- Audi Dresden, Audi 15 / 75
- Manufacturer
- Audi
- Production
- 1931–1932
- Assembly
- Germany
- Predecessor
- Audi Type R
- Successor
- Audi UW 220/UW 225
- Engine
- 3838 cc 6-cylinder , (design Rickenbacker)
- Class
- Obere Mittelklasse
- Wheelbase
- 3100 mm
- Length
- 4480 mm
- Width
- 1780 mm
- Height
- 1760 mm
- sp
- uk
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
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Sources
- Wikidata — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193939CC0 1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-01
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_Type_TCC BY-SA 4.0 · Text © Wikipedia contributors; revision 1255510217 · retrieved 2026-10-01
- Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Audi_Typ_T.jpgCopyrighted free use · Photo: The original uploader was Motorstar at German Wikipedia. · retrieved 2026-10-01
- Car Model Index — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/Compiled record. Sources that do not permit reuse are not copied; this index is credited instead.