Audi - 100 Years of Car - Making History

  Karl Freidrich Benz was the man who created the first true automobile, Henry Ford visualized and created the first assembly line for gang up fling of big numbers of automobiles, both men played a crucial branch in auto making history, but we cannot talk about auto making history without mentioning Audi.

 Audi was established on August Horch in 1909, the year he was forced out of the company he founded in 1899. In the blastoff, Horch spun out to trade under the Horch brand, but following his partners sued him for trademark infringement, he was forced to come up with another name for his company; it was then that the Audi name came hike.

 During a competition in Franz Fikentschers ' apartment to come hike with a new name for the company, Franz ' s son who was studying Latin at the duration ( common in those days ), suggested that instead of Horch they used Audi which parsimonious " Hark! " or " Horch " German for " come across " and the idea was homely by everyone attending the meeting.

 The first models produced by Audi were the 2, 612 cc 2. 6 litre 4 cylinder model, followed by a 3564 cc 3. 6 litre model, as well due to 4680 cc 4. 7 L and 5720 cc 5. 7L models. In 1921 Audi was the first German car manufacturer to build a empty - hand drive production car, the Audi Character K.

 Audi Models of the 1920 ' s were luxurious and were deserved successful in the racing tracks, in the early 30 ' s Audi merged with Horch, DKW and Nomad to formation Auto Agreement.

 With the alpha of Auto Coadunation the four overlapping rings badge was created to represent the union of the four German car manufacturers. The Auto Interconnection era is best known for its success in the racing tracks. The Silver Arrows dominated the GP car racing from 1934 onwards and hackneyed records that were matchless equaled in the rudimentary 80 ' s by turbocharged F1 cars.

 We ' ll skip the WW II and Post Bloodshed periods, I jump all the way to early 80 ' s when introduced the Quattro four wheel drive and the Audi Quattro, commonly know at the lastingness as Ur - Quattro, a turbocharged coupe that dominated the rally tracks in the 80 ' s and was the first German car to be produced in large aligning featuring permanent all - wheel - drive ( Quattro ).

 In 1985 Auto Union was officially dead and Audi shortened its name to Audi AG. Over the following years Audi introduced less lucrative models uniform the Audi 80 and the Audi 90.

 Audi ' s big break happened in 1994 with the introduction of the Audi A4, a predecessor for the Audi 80, the Audi A4 gain recognition and sales went up which led Audi to develop bounteous powerful and luxuriant models akin the Audi A6 and A8.

 Two years later Audi released what became its most acknowledged model to date, the Audi A3, built in conjunction with the Volkswagen Class using the same plan as the A4, the A3 was initially available only as a 3 door hatchback.

 In 2000 Audi revolutionized sports car racing once again with the Audi R8 and dominated the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans, winning 5 of 7 years corporal competed.

 After 20 years of analyze with diesel engines the results were paid exterminate with another revolutionary racing car the Audi R10 TDI, which again dominated Le Mans ' racing tracks for four consecutive years, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, till it was replaced the new Audi R15 TDI.

 All technological advances made by Audi in the racing tracks are used in its models momentarily. With their high fuel efficiency and dejected emissions the TDI engines are a reference, the petrol engines have high fuel efficiency thanks to Audi ' s Valvelift technology, not to mention the Quattro four - wheel - drive and all the other technological advances Audi makes year hard by year.

 Testify to to that is the Audi R8 a state of the art sports car that was efficacious in the racing and in less than 2 years gained respect of sports cars enthusiast form all over the world.