All Audi cars were right-hand-drive until 1921, It was at this time that they first publicly introduced a left-hand-drive, 16 years before Germany officially legislated for it in 1938.

It wasn’t until 1922 that left-hand-drive began to get going in Germany, and even at the time the new configuration was a feature of just 10% of Germany’s cars. This total had risen to 25%, just one year later.

The Audi Type K, which was built between 1921 and 1926, took the Berlin Motor Show by storm when it made its world debut with left-hand-drive.

The Type K was the first car in Germany to go on sale with a left-mounted steering wheel, and featured a conventional floor mounted gear shift which was centrally located alongside the car’s handbrake.

In total, 74 countries around the World now drive on the left in right-hand-drive cars. Globally almost all nations began by driving on the left, and there was a gradual transition to driving on the right in left-hand-drive vehicles.

Interestingly, one of the first nations to move from the left to the right hand side of the road was the United States, which, as early as 1792, first passed new laws in Pennsylvania.