Audi Auto Union 1938 Silver Arrow Race Car in NYC

[Armourlego]

This cars history is amazing...

[fastmannnnn]

most epic cop chase EVER!

[computername]

@fastmannnnn If the Audi had permit to take it seriously, there had been no chase. Just some cops who had to explain their chief why they couln´t follow and chase a 73 year old car..

[RealRapAndHiphp]

i find this VERY VERY EASY to masterbait too

[skvakagud]

How the HELL can the streets not haev been completely crowded.. ??? SHAME ON YOU NYC !!! ..

[saintellins]

A nasty reminder of a failed ideology and mass murder to millions....OH and by the way very little to do with AUDI .....ENJOY STUPID YANK..............

[firefrostpeacemaker]

my fav piece in monopoly.

[kolbenhirsch]

Der Bomber von den Horten Brüdern hat's damals nicht mehr nach NYC geschafft, nun schicken wir halt Addis Rennwagen! Geiler Brüller der 16ern........

[videoCHERUBINO]

Made in Chemnitz ...

[Nuschke00135]

@videoCHERUBINO no, made in Zwickau, near Chemnitz ;-)

[anfiboli]

again...........SIM-PLY-FAN-TA­S-TIC....

youtubesearch COPPA ACERBO

[sternme]

No wonder its flooded...sounds like he keeps revving it.

[mike74em]

@sternme It's not built to drive this slowly. Dedicated racing engines like the V16 en V12 from the C and D spec's are meant to rev constantly. Might be a slight miscalculation by the Audi engineers, running that car for that event.

[om3ga90]

Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrows

[BrianSupreme]

@paleyellowrainbow2 As far as I know there are no exact evidences to prove that theory!

[pratzundwas]

Gänsehaut pur!!!! Was für ein geiler Sound......

[W0mpa]

The Jerrys is here!!

To bad he droved slowly, with a police escort I would have stomped the accelerator at least once!

[skvakagud]

@W0mpa You would have lost your job and never drove a historic race car again.. ;) 

[anfiboli]

Adolf's Sound hits NYC....eheheheh.....;-)

[roqe666]

@anfiboli Lol dude

[Nuschke00135]

@anfiboli no, these cars at all to do anything with that of Adolf, he wanted to Volkswagen in front and to suppress the Auto-Union, who were playing that is not (he succeeded is not, it was the second largest automobile company of Germany, but unfortunately he was then in the Soviet Union)

[doktorlindblood]

orgasmic!

[dudeisnotcoolio]

Amazing car.

[al1500321]

Is it the one that's worth some serious cash?

[taunus1975]

Definetly serious cash (>10.000.000 €) if it a original car.

Audi has build some replica cars for show puposes.

[oldmusher]

Of course, Herr Hitler decreed how fast they were, and that was the speed recorded. Or else. After the War a couple of them tried to duplicate these speeds, and Hmmmmm no good. KPH...like if your're french?

[McLarenMercedes]

Uh..KPH is used all over the world except for Great Britain and the USA. Miles,feet and inches are leftovers from the middle ages. The metric system is way more logic and scientifically supported. The sole reason the British didn't accept it was because it came from France.

BTW, those cars really were clocked doing 270mph and had more than enough horsepower and low drag to be able to reach them. Hitler had nothing to do with them other than he wanted the LSR to Germany.

[alainimholz112]

sorry, besser als sex

[pratzundwas]

was für ein super geiler sound....

[turbolover175]

theres something ya dont see every day. also, I heard the streamliners broke 250 mph at the avus speedway.

[hahayoudied123]

funny looking car lol

[ropermachine]

but yea the streamliner v16 went 271 mph right before rosemeyer got tossed,R.I.P

[ropermachine]

270 KPH not MPH

[partikelstrom]

Nein 220 MpH

Rund 350 KmH

[AlexDeLarge90]

Bernd Rosemeyer DID 270mph with the Auto Union streamliner in 1937. But he lost control of the car on the return run and was killed.

[turbolover175]

in 1937. Damn.

[quattrosaint]

1938 not 37. It was his 3rd pass. There were no return runs. A cross wind and aero problems were the cause.

[AlexDeLarge90]

Thanks. Getting a car aerodynamically slippery was no sweat really, the real challenge was to get it aerodynamically stable. Back in the 1930's they had little knnowledge of how to counter the lifting forces at such great speeds.

I believe the record from 1938 still is the fastest speed recorded on a public road?

[nagmashot]

they had a huge knowlege back in 1938 about aerodynamic effect... the Autounion Streamliner was the first groundeffect car in the world... some 30years later Lotus claimed to be the first... which they were not

[AlexDeLarge90]

then how come Rosemeyer lost control of the thing going perfectly straight?

exactly HOW did the Auto Union have ground effect in the same way Lotus had with their sliding skirts and venturi tunnels on their type 78 and 79 cars?

[nagmashot]

google for pictures and technical drawings of the real high speed cars there you see that the streamliner of today which was used for Avus racing looked completely different to the streamliner with ground effect which was used for record runs..unfortunatily yout tube does not allow adding links..

[nagmashot]

Bernd Rosemeyer was the firs human ever getting over 400km/h(250mph) on a public road in 1937! In 1938 he tryed to beat the Mercedes W125 public road topspeed record 432.7km/h (268mph) set at the same day. Rosemeyer reached in the second run 429.9km/h and did a third try, at ~430km/h he lost controll because of side winds or a using mistake by Rosemeyer, there were flaps (for engine cooling) that could be open and closed by the driver possible that he opend one which destoryed the groundeffect

[TheMegaCONARTIST]

Rosemeyer, legendary man with legendary car Audi.

[SagaraGunso]

Germany practicaly invented the car and ic engine..they were,are and always will be techical and engineering geniuses

[Patroclo007]

european cars are the best, in 1939 and now. only the Mercedes W196 faced the Auto Union.

[AlexDeLarge90]

no, you're thinking of the Mercedes W125 and W154

the W196 was raced in 1954-1955

[creamofcardstv]

I like your video clip and have rated it as awesome. Please check out mine on some 1930's motor car tobacco cards. Includes early Auto Union and many other makes.

[nagmashot]

That was the first midengine race car ever (with the fuel between driver and engine to make ith weight balance neutral)... the Formula 1 needed 30 years to get to that standart...which is still used today.. Audi and Mercedes had so powerfull race cars befor ww2 that it needed till the muscle car area that they get close to the power... in the F1 it needed the turbo area to beat the engine power of that old racers.. they reached 270 mph with the Mercedes W12 on public road in 1938...

[bimbz72]

exactly..

[pollydriver]

270 mph? in 1938!? i knew they could crack the double ton but didn't know they were that fast...

[nagmashot]

The Mercedes W125 Rekordwagen made in 1938 on the Autobahn A5 a over 270mph run in two direction over fling km and flying mile. It is still today the fasted speed ever driven on a public road. A 69year old speed record..

[sarcoptic]

that was the v 12 D-type,which was'nt designed by Porsche

[tiagodovale]

"Displayed by Audi but pure Porsche at heart." As much as the VW beetle and many racing Mercedes-Benz.

[zzrats]

Displayed by Audi but pure Porsche at heart.

[wildchildpr]

I thought that the cops should be in the front for an escort; The impresion is that looks like it's goin to pull off the road for a ticket :D

[blaatschaap200]

German cars are the best.

[GHOSTBLACK555]

nice sound

[wildchildpr]

Why the cop's following?

[rockreid]

The street was closed off for the opening of the new Audi Forum (a storefront to display new Audis). The cop was an escort for the short drive down Park Avenue.

[bimbz72]

Because if you look closely, the German driver had a glass of draft beer in his right hand. That's a no-no in NYC. lol

[PleaseUncheckBox]

Nice car.

[diesellover]

i love old auto union cars ,