Built on the orders of Hitler, the world's most pricey car

The Telegraph ^ | 1/7/07 | David Harrison

[rock58seg]

A G = Aktiensgesellschaft = Corporation

[ARE SOLE]

No one could ever recreate a Royale:

Does that Royale come with cheese?

Regards.

[ARE SOLE]

Let me try this again. Porsche tank. King Tiger II

[JWinNC]

I see... high RPM... supercharger... literally squeezing everything possible out of 3 liters for a brief run or race...

bleeding edge tech for that time.

[the anti-liberal]

The subject of that book, IBM and the Holocaust, definitely falls under the "truth-stranger-than-fiction/you-just-can't-make-up-stuff-like-this" category!

[Calpernia]

I never knew that the number on the victims arms was from the IBM census.

This whole book is chilling.

[19th LA Inf]

Each car had a rear, three-litre engine providing 485 brake horse power

The story seems to suggest that Auto Union and Mercedes Benz both built rear engine racecars. Only the Auto Union was a rear engine. Mercedes used a conventional front engine layout, but angled the engine in the chassis to permit the driveshaft to lie alongside the driver's seat, achieving a lowslung configuration for improved cornering.

Mercedes engines were V-12s. Auto Union used both V-12 and V-16 setups in different seasons; I don't recall the exact history, but I think at one time at least one of the cars with a V-12 was rolled out with 4 fake exhaust stacks to impress or confound the boys from Stuttgart.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

I would like to have a king tigerII but with current powerplant and transmission.

[ARE SOLE]

I would like to have a king tigerII but with current powerplant and transmission.

Me too. I hear they are real EZ to park. Who's gonna fight you for a spot?

But that 3 gallons to a mile thang ....

Regards.

[FreedomCalls]

At the end of the war the Auto Union team's cars, which are believed to have been hidden in a mineshaft in Germany, were found by the Russians who took them back to the Soviet Union so that engineers could study their technology.

So they did. And all they could come up with based that study was the Lada?

[dersepp]

AUDI:

Auto Union Deutsche Industrie

[the anti-liberal]

"I never knew that the number on the victims arms was from the IBM census."

Neither did I.

"This whole book is chilling."

I'm sure. Sweet dreams tonight...

[proudpapa]

You forgot one of the big ones...

... Allianz AG.

[proudpapa]

Volkswagen = Hitlers Revenge.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Oh i forgot about the fuel mileage.Damn, gettin expensive to dream.