Audi Rosemeyer: forgotten concept (2000)
Posted on 08-02-2016 at 21:57 by Dizono – 32 Comments”
You can be the first hints of the R8 in the wrong, but with a large Auto Union Silberpfeile-sauce over it.
Audi has a bit of a difficult past. The modern Audi has been in existence since 1969, was even of Mercedes-Benz, but the first Audi rolled already in 1910 of the band. Founded by August Horch, who left his first car: Horch. Later on, Audi merged with Horch, as well as DKW and Wanderer. The brands under its own name continue to produce, but the group would be known as Auto Union. The logo: four-connected rings that the four brands proposals. This will for the most of you known.
When in the ’30s, Hitler’s regime a lot of money put in the racing world, went Reichsmarks, not only to Mercedes, but also to Auto Union. In place of cars to build one of the existing brands, they decided to do that under the name of Auto Union. Well-known drivers who will the mighty cars with zestiencilinders taming were Tazio Nuvolari, Hans Stuck and Bernd Rosemeyer. That last came in 1938 to life during a failed attempt on the Reich Autobahn between Frankfurt airport and Darmstad, behind the wheel of an Auto Union Type R. Just before he had to go in the opposite direction already at a speed of 429.491 km/h register…
An unvarnished tribute
All this explains the name of the concept car by Audi in 2000 revealed. The bare aluminum, the distinctive grille, the zestiencilindermotor and the long, streamlined sloping back, piece by piece, they refer to the period in which the German automotive industry the fastest and most advanced cars in the world built. And not built, of course, because visually the car is also what stylingdetails of the today by Wouter already mentioned Audi Porsche Type 52.
Audi has never made serious plans had the Rosemeyer in production. At that time they were at the VAG a lot to push the 8.0 W16 a bit to allow it to function in the Bugatti Veyron, so the 400 km/h would make it. No, this concept was mainly intended to get people to the booth to lure, the history of the brand in the limelight, and yet again the focus on Audi’s pioneering role in the use of aluminum in any other production road car.
Nevertheless, it would Rosemeyer is not entirely a quiet death to die, because if you look closely to see what details that later when the R8 would be returning. Just look at the line of the side windows and the lack of additional zijruitjes behind the doors.
Gallery: Audi Rosemeyer Concept
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