It was in most respects a scaled-down version of the manufacturer's Type SS "Zwickau", which had appeared two years earlier.

[1] Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen, the Danish-born entrepreneurial industrialist who had purchased Audi-Werke in 1928, had previously, in 1927, purchased the manufacturing plant of the bankrupt Detroit-based Rickenbacker business and shipped it home to Germany.

The plan was to build large, relatively inexpensive US-style engines for sales to other German auto-makers.

It developed a maximum output of 75 PS (55 kW; 74 hp) at 3,200 rpm, which was conveyed to the rear wheel through a four-speed manual transmission controlled using a central floor-mounted lever.

[3] The car had two leaf-sprung solid axles and four-wheel hydraulic brakes.