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Re: NSU Not Part of Auto Union -Reply
Douglas, the first postwar Audi was a restyled (and repowered) DKW,
not NSU. Both DKW and Audi were part of the pre-WWII Auto Union
conglomerate (along with Wanderer and Horch). When VW bought
Auto Union in 1965, it chose to stop production of the traditional DKW
two-stroke and revive the Audi name for a new line developed from
DKW's F102 and powered by a four-stroke 1.7 liter four cylinder engine
engineered by Mercedes-Benz. The name change made historic
sense, since Audi was Auto Union's front-wheel-drive four-stroke
pre-WWII product. VW subsequently bought NSU and had to deal with
Ro80 Wankel engine reliability issues. Somewhere along the line, VW
decided to market an NSU-derived product under the VW K70 brand
name.
If you have access to additional or differing information, please share it
with me.
Pete
>>> Douglas Mancini - Order Manager - OFC Netherlands
<Douglas.Mancini@Holland.Sun.COM> 05/14/97 05:28am >>>
Audi is the metamorphosis of NSU, as the first postwar Audi, 1967 I
believe,
was nothing but a slightly restyled NSU. So indeed NSU has everything
to do
with Audi. Come to Europe and youll see lots of late NSUs and early
Auds.
- Douglas
Audi is the metamorphosis of NSU, as the first postwar Audi, 1967 I believe,
was nothing but a slightly restyled NSU. So indeed NSU has everything to do
with Audi. Come to Europe and youll see lots of late NSUs and early Auds.
- Douglas