Hitler's Hot Rod

Next year, Christie's auction house will attempt to set a record for the most expensive car when it auctions off one of the five remaining Auto Union Grand Prix cars from the Pre-WWII era. As the article points out, the car was the product of cash infusions from the Hitler government into the Auto Union (now Audi, basically) and Mercedes race programs. The result was some of the fastest race cars in the world that were well ahead of their time in terms of technology. Part of the weird/sad legacy of Hitler and the German auto industry.