Sold: Audi UR Quattro \u002639;Turbo\u002639; Coupe Auctions Lot 13 Shannons

$Sold: Audi UR Quattro \u002639;Turbo\u002639; Coupe Auctions Lot 13 Shannons$

Audi AG (German: [ˈʔaʊ̯diː ˈʔaːˈgeː] ) is really a German automobile manufacturer that will designs, engineers, produces, marketplaces and distributes luxury automobiles. Audi is a associate of the Volkswagen Team and has its root base at Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Philippines. Audi-branded vehicles are produced in nine production facilities worldwide.

The origins of the company are complex, heading back to the early 20th century as well as the initial businesses (Horch and the Audiwerke) founded by engineer August Horch; and two other manufacturers (DKW and Wanderer), leading to the foundation associated with Auto Union in 1932. The modern era associated with Audi essentially began in the 1960s when Car Union was acquired simply by Volkswagen from Daimler-Benz. After relaunching the Audi brand with the 1965 introduction of the Audi F103 series, Volkswagen merged Auto Union with NSU Motorenwerke in 1969, thus generating the present day kind of the company.

The business name is based on the particular Latin translation of the surname of the founder, August Horch. "Horch", meaning "listen" in German, becomes "audi" in Latin. The four rings of the Audi logo design each represent one associated with four car companies that banded together to produce Audi's predecessor company, Auto Union. Audi's slogan is Vorsprung durch Technik, meaning "Being Ahead through Technology". Nevertheless, Audi USA had utilized the slogan "Truth in Engineering" from 2007 in order to 2016, and have not really used slogan since 2016. Audi, along with fellow German marques BMW plus Mercedes-Benz, is probably the best-selling luxurious automobile brands in the world.