{"id":79010,"date":"2021-08-31T12:38:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T12:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=79010"},"modified":"2021-12-28T12:55:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T12:55:10","slug":"90-years-of-horch-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/90-years-of-horch-12\/","title":{"rendered":"90 Years of Horch 12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently, the question went around the internet whether there had been a car with a twelve-cylinder engine and manual transmission. The only example mentioned was the BMW 850 CSi. However, sports cars like the Pagani Zonda were excluded from the question. It was raised by German YouTuber and car tuner Jean Pierre Kraemer, known to many as JP Performance. We would like to answer at this point and say: clearly yes! However, it is understandable that the car in question is hardly known today. The world premiere at the Paris Motor Show was 90 years ago. With only 81 examples produced, its distribution was also very limited. As we have already revealed in our headline, we are talking about the Horch 12, which was available in as Type 600 and Type 670. Horch took the step from straight eight-cylinder engines up to twelve cylinders in order to remain the European market leader in the luxury car segment. Maybach had presented the DS8 Zeppelin model with a V12 engine in 1930.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twelve-cylinder engine with manual transmission<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Under the direction of Fritz Fiedler, a six-liter V12 engine with 120 hp was developed, whose twelve cylinders were set apart at a 66-degree angle. The crankshaft was mounted on seven bearings and the camshaft, which was centrally located between the cylinder banks, was driven by an automatically tensioned chain. Rocker levers opened and closed the horizontally arranged valves with hydraulic valve clearance compensation. For better lubrication during cold starts, additional engine oil could be forced into the cylinders from the cockpit via a separate line system. A special feature was the partially synchronized four-speed transmission with a shift lever on the center tunnel. Many cars at the time still had this lever either on the outside of the body or as a long rod under the dashboard. In addition, competitors such as Maybach and Mercedes-Benz had already begun automating their transmissions to relieve the driver of shifting gears. Interestingly, Cadillac in the USA retained a manual three-speed transmission even for the V-16 with 16 cylinders.<\/p>\n\n\n

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