These days, cars are equipped with more or less trivial options. The Honda Odyssey features a vacuum cleaner, swivel seats, and even lighting fixtures, but none have the Horch 930S's option: the retractable sink in the right front fender with hot (exhaust-heated) and cold water taps, a mixer tap, and a soap dispenser on the footboard, very useful for washing hands after changing a tire or doing dishes, for example.
This unusual accessory was installed in the car so that the driver could wash his hands after changing a flat tire or doing other work on the car.
A similar system was installed on the King of Sweden's hunting carriage in 1923, a Horch 10/35 HP Phaeton.
Only two models were assembled before the war. One was presented at the Berlin Motor Show, and the second was loaned to Auto Union's star driver, Tazio Novolari. Both cars disappeared without a trace. After the war, the Horch factories, like those of Audi, found themselves under Soviet control. Three unfinished 930 Ss escaped looting and were completed for delivery to two generals and a minister. Between 1947 and 1948, four more vehicles were assembled, but with a significant stylistic change, including a completely redesigned front end and the famous sink.
Two of these four 930 Ss have survived. The first is now in the Museum of Technology and Transport in Berlin, while the second Horch 930 S belongs to the August Horch Museum in Zwickau.
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