The car was built at Auto Union's Horch plant in Zwickau with Type 830 V8 engines and by the Ford plants in Cologne using their own 3.6-litre eight-cylinder V8-51 truck engines. The 2 cm anti-aircraft guns were occasionally mounted directly on the vehicle to increase its firing capability, thus creating simple self-propelled guns. However, the chassis was probably overloaded in this application. Such combinations seem to have been common in the Afrika Korps. Later, the chassis was also equipped with the 2-cm-Fla-Drillings-MG 151/20 as a field conversion