AUDI. AUDI in GERMANY
Audi AG, Auto-Union-Strasse, D-85057 Ingolstadt, Germany tel. + 49841/89-0, fax + 49841/8932524,
http://www.audi.com
Models produced in Germany: A2, A3, A3 Sport-back, A4 / S4 / RS4, A4 / S4 Avant, A4 / S4
Cabriolet, A6, A6 Avant,
A8, All road Quattro; models produced in Hungary: TT, TT Roadster; models
produced in Belgium: A3.
Production volume in Germany in 2003 - 657,780 vehicles (excluding
the CKD sets). In November 1899, the designer August Horch founded the Horch & Cie company which,
in the years 1901 - 40, produced Horch cars. In 1909, Horch left the company and in July 1909 founded another - the August
Horch
Automobilwerke GmbH. In April 1910, he changed the company’s
name to Audi Automobilwerke GmbH which, from July 1910 to 1941, manufactured Audi cars. In 1932, Audi, DKW (1928 - 42),
Wanderer (1905 - 1942) and Horch founded
the Auto Union AG concern, which after the war produced cars under two makes:
DKW (1946-66)
and
Auto Union (1954-68). In 1958,
the company was taken over by Daimler-Benz,
which in turn resold it gradually from 1964 (50.3% as of 1 January 1965) to 1966 (100%) to Volkswagen. In
September 1965, production of Audi cars was resumed. In 1969, within the Volkswagen concern,
the Auto Union Audi merged with the NSU (NSU cars were produced in the years 1905-33 and 1957-77). In 1985, the Audi NSU Auto
Union AG was renamed Audi AG. In 1998, Audi AG took over Lamborghini and the British engine
manufacturer Cosworth. Audi are produced in Germany, Belgium (since 2004), Hungary (since 1998), China (since 1988), Brazil
(since 1999), and assembled in
Malaysia (1985
- 2002), Thailand
(2000 -
2002), Ukraine
(since 2004),
and
Bosnia and Herzegovina (since 2004).
Latest premieres: Paris 2002 - S4, second generation S4 Avant
and A8; Los Angeles 2003 - A8 L; Detroit 2003 - Pikes Peak prototype; Geneva 2003 - second genera-
tion A3 and Nuvolari Quattro coupe concept car; Frankfurt/Main
2003 - S4 Cabriolet, A2
restyling and Le Mans Quattro coupe concept car; Detroit 2004 - A8 W12; Geneva 2004 - second generation A6
sedan; New York
2004 - RSQ Sports Coupe concept car; June 2004 - A3 Sportback; Paris 2004 - A4 / S4 restyling, A4
Avant /
S4
Avant restyling; November 2004 - second generation A6 Avant; Detroit 2005 - prototype of A6
Allroad Quattro; Geneva 2005 - new RS4 sedan, A8 restyling; Barcelona
2005 - Audi A3 restyling. At the end of 2004, production of the
S6, S6 Avant, RS6 and RS6 Avant models was terminated. Plans for the future: 2005 - Q7 Pikes Peak SUV
(production in Slovakia), new RS4 Avant; 2006 - A6 Allroad Quattro, second
generation TT, A3 SUV, S3, S6 II, new S8, A6 Coupe, A8 Avant; 2007 - TT Coupe, third generation A4,
A6 Cabrio, new RS6; 2008 - Le Mans coupe, Q5. In 2003, in 5 countries, 763,154
Audi
cars were produced.
NEW! AUDI TT QUATTRO SPORT
NEW! AUDI RS4
NEW! AUDI RS4
AUDI A2
AUDI A2
AUDI A3
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