Audi Car Stress Test, Thailand by Asiatravel.com
By admin on April 3, 2010, 6:39 am
AUDI AG, (Xetra: NSU) is a German company which produces cars under the Audi brand, pronounced /?a?di/. It is part of the Volkswagen Group. The name Audi is based on a Latin translation of the surname of the founder August Horch, itself the German word for listen!” Audi is headquartered in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany. It has been a wholly-owned (99.55%) subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group (Volkswagen AG) since 1964. Volkswagen Group relaunched the Audi brand with the 1965 introduction of the Audi 60/72/75/80/Super 90 range (sold in certain export markets simply as the “Audi”) shortly after the name was acquired as part of Volkswagen’s purchase of the Auto Union assets from former owner, Daimler-Benz. The company traces its origins back to 1899 and August Horch. The first Horch automobile was produced in 1901 in Zwickau.[3] In 1909, Horch was forced out of the company he had founded.[3] He then started a new company in Zwickau and continued using the Horch brand[4] His former partners sued him for trademark infringement and a German court determined that the Horch brand belonged to his former company.[3] August Horch was barred from using his own family name in his new car business, so he called a meeting at the apartment of Franz Fikentscher to come up with a new name for his company. During this meeting Franz’s son was quietly studying Latin in a corner of the room. Several times he looked like he was on the verge of saying something but would just swallow his words and …
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