Audi Type P

The Audi Type P was a small two-door sedan that Audi introduced in 1931 and discontinued by 1932. Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen, who had bought Audiwerke in 1928, worried that the Zwickau plant was underused, and he judged that the noisy two-stroke engines of his DKW cars might deter customers. His short-term answer was the Type P, which combined the body of the DKW Typ 4=8 with a four-stroke 1,122 cc engine bought from Peugeot, the engine of the Peugeot 201. The front-mounted four-cylinder side-valve engine gave 30 PS at 3,200 rpm through a three-speed manual transmission to the rear wheels, with a claimed top speed of 80 km/h, and hydraulic brakes on all four wheels. It cost 3,385 marks in 1931.