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In 2009, the year of Audi's 100th anniversary, the company organized the Audi Cup for the first time. [128] Audi also sponsor the New York Yankees as well. In October 2010 they agreed to a three sponsorship year-deal with Everton. [129] Audi also sponsors the England Polo Team and holds the Audi Polo Awards. [130] [131]
On 25 April 1910 the name Audi Automobilwerke was entered in the company's register at the Zwickau registration court. Audi is the Latin translation of horch, from the German verb "horchen", which means "listen!" (compare English "hark"). The Audi name was proposed by a son of one of Horch's business partners from Zwickau. [3]
He was an honorary citizen of Zwickau and had a street named for his Audi cars in both Zwickau and his birthplace Winningen. He was made an honorary professor at Braunschweig University of Technology. [1] There is an August Horchstrasse (August Horch Street) at Audi's main manufacturing plant in Ingolstadt.
Audi never made use of the brand name NSU again after April 1977, when the last Ro 80 was sold. [11] In 1985, the company name was shortened to Audi AG and management moved back to Audi's headquarters in Ingolstadt. Even as production of the Ro 80 continued in the Neckarsulm plant, production of larger Audi models like 100 and 200 was started
The following list of Audi vehicles, including past and present production models, as well as concept vehicles and limited editions. The current era of Audi production dates to 1968, when present-day owner Volkswagen Group , which had purchased Auto Union from Mercedes-Benz in 1965, debuted the first modern Audi-branded vehicles.
This is all part of Audi Group’s Vorsprung 2030 plan, which seeks to have all of the group’s new models be electric by 2026—and to end traditional gas-powered engine production by 2033. To ...
Auto Union Type D at 2009 AMI Leipzig. In 1932 Auto Union Gmbh was formed, comprising struggling auto manufacturers Audi, DKW, Horch and Wanderer.The chairman of the board of Directors, Baron Klaus von Oertzen wanted a show piece project, so at fellow director Adolf Rosenberger's insistence, von Oertzen met with Porsche, who had done work for him before.
With the founding of Horch and Audi in 1904 and 1909 respectively, Zwickau became the cradle of the Saxon automobile industry. [3] Following the partition of Germany after the Second World War, and the formation of East Germany (DDR), all private enterprise was seized by the government, which included the former Audi and Horch factories in Zwickau, with their parent Auto Union formally ...