Audi does not build many cars like the Audi Front with 1,950 cc straight-6, built from 1933 to 1938 when streamlining and independent suspension were arriving together. Production ran to 4,403 cars.
The background
Initially presented early in 1933, the Audi Front UW 220 was Europe’s first car to combine front-wheel drive with a six-cylinder engine. It remained in production for slightly under two years before being replaced by the Audi Front UW 225 featuring a larger 2.25-litre engine. The larger-engined car introduced in 1935 was built till April 1938 and continued to be listed into 1939. Between 1933 and 1938, the Front was the only Audi in volume production.
The engineering
Under the skin sits 1,950 cc straight-6; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. The wheelbase is 3050 mm / - 3100 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Where it sits in Audi's history is not in doubt: the Audi Type T came before it; the Audi 920 followed it; it was built at Zwickau, Germany (Horch plant). On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Bugatti Type 57, the Chevrolet Suburban, the Delage D4. Its Audi stablemates include the Audi 200 and the Audi 225.
The money
There is no federal ownership record for the Audi Front — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.