Audi History

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After the war in Zwickau, DDR was the very famous TRABANT (two strokes, 2
cylinder) manufactured!

In Aisenach (former BMW plant) was Wartburg (two strokes, 3 cylinder)
manufactured.

 Now there is an Opel plant.

What happend to Zwickau plant, I don't know.

Dobby



----- Original Message -----

From: Zsolt <zsolt1 at telusplanet.net>

Date: Thursday, March 13, 2003 7:19 am

Subject: Audi History

> Just found a bit of interesting Audi history.
>
> History:
> 1899: August Horch began a car company carrying his own surname in
> 1899.1910: When he left that company to start afresh at Zwickau,
> Germany, he
> "translated his last name, which means ``hark!'' or ``listen!'' into
> Latin, ``Audi''."
> 1932: Audi became part of Auto-Union, with DKW, Horch and Wanderer.
> 1933: Audi built front-wheel drive cars.
> 1949: The Soviet Union took Auto Union AG after WWII, so Auto
> Union GmbH
> was established at Ingolstadt, later becoming Audi AG.
> 1965: New model called `Audi' appears, and Volswagen AG acquire
> the company.
>
> From the following web site:
> http://www.ecars.com.au/Audi/Audi.html
>
> Cheers,
> Zsolt
>
>