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Douglas Mancini said:
>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.
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 introduce an NSU-designed product under K70 model name.
This was the first water-cooled product marketed as a VW.
Pete
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