Audi · 1931–1932
Audi Type P
The Audi Type P was a small two-door sedan/saloon car introduced by Audi in 1931. It was discontinued by 1932.
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History
Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen who had purchased Audiwerke AG in 1928 was concerned that the Audi Zwickau plant was badly underutilized because demand for the expensive luxury cars that Audi produced was still restricted by the economic contraction that had followed the 1929 Stock-market crashes. The other company owned by Rasmussen was Zschopauer Motorenwerke with its brand DKW, which had in 1929 introduced the small rear-wheel drive DKW Typ 4=8. Zschopauer Motorenwerke was the nation's largest producer of motor-bikes, and used a motor-bike style two-stroke engine in their own small cars. Rasmussen became persuaded that the then noisy and lumpy two-stroke engines might be deterring customers: his short-term solution was the Audi Type P which combined the body of the DKW Typ 4=8 with a four-stroke 1,122 cc engine. Rasmussen avoided time as well as development and tooling costs for creating a new small four-stroke units from scratch by buying engines for the Type P from Peugeot, across the Rhine in France. The Audi Type P therefore combined the body of a DKW 4=8 with engine of a Peugeot 201. The vehicle's four-cylinder in-line side-valve engine front mounted Peugeot engine developed a maximum output of 30 PS (22 kW) at 3,200 rpm. Power was delivered to the rear wheels through a three-speed manual transmission. The car had two rigid axles with transverse leaf springs. Claimed top speed was 80 km/h (50 mph). The footbrake operated on all four wheels via a hydraulic control mechanism. The Type P was available only as a two-door sedan with four windows. It was priced in 1931 at 3,385 Marks. Rasmussen seems to have hedged his bets when deciding how to use the spare capacity of his Spandau plant. At about the same time as he arranged to produce the new Peugeot-powered Audi Type P th
Specifications
== Sources == Oswald, Werner: Deutsche Autos 1920-1945, Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 10. Auflage (1996), 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 P
- aka
- Audi 5 / 30
- Manufacturer
- Audi-Werke
- Production
- 1931–1932
- Assembly
- Spandau, Germany
- Engine
- 1,122 cc 4-stroke I4, (from Peugeot 201)
- Layout
- FR layout
- Wheelbase
- 2700 mm
- Length
- 3680 mm
- Width
- 1400 mm
- Height
- 1650 mm
- Kerb weight
- 825 kg
- sp
- uk
- Top speed
- 80 km/h
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Sources
- Wikidata — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209218CC0 1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-01
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_Type_PCC BY-SA 4.0 · Text © Wikipedia contributors; revision 1347930502 · retrieved 2026-10-01
- Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Audi_Typ_P.jpgPublic domain · Photo: 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.