Audi Type C Streamliner (1937)

This car is from 1937. Racing driver Bernd Rosemeyer drove this car to 253 M.P.H. at AVUS Speedway in Germany. The secret was a 5-speed auto transmission with a 757 h.p. V16 engine. This car is mid-engined (engine behind the front wheels & cockpit, but in front of the rear wheels. What you may mistaken for a hovercraft is really fender skirts (plates that go over the wheels for more aerodynamics).