Audi is currently enjoying the longest period of profitability and stability in the company’s history. With outstanding cars like the R8 and beastly RS7, that’s good news for all of us.  Everyone dream of having an Audi in their lives. Audies are famous because of its strong design identity, an impeccable racing capability and use of cutting edge technology and these points set these cars apart in the automobile industry. In fact, you might say it was a road ridden with bomb craters, rocks, snow, and gravel. From the car makers to car takers, these people take their cars damn seriously. Below mentioned facts are the ones about which you hardly know, but if you are a big freak for an audi then you should know these things about your dream car.
The name AUDI is the latin for “HEAR”August Horch founded his first car company, A. Horch & Cie. in 1899. But just 10 years later, Horch wasn’t seeing eye-to-eye with his Chief Financial officer and left his own company to start August Horch Automobilwerke GmbH. Unfortunately, Horch soon learned the Horch name belonged to his former company when he was notified of a copyright infringement. In response, Horch changed the new company’s name to the latin translation of his last name. In German “horch” means “hear,” which in Latin is “audi”.

The four rings in the logo represent the four companies of Auto Union
By 1932, the name fiasco between Horch the man, and Horch the company was water under the bridge. Horch (the company) and Audi entered an agreement along with two other German car manufacturers, DKW and Wanderer, to form Auto Union. The four rings, which Audi still uses today, originally represented the four companies of Auto Union. After the merger, Auto Union became the second biggest car company in Germany after Mercedes-Benz. Each of the companies were allocated a market segment: Horch would build high-end luxury cars, Audi focused on deluxe mid-size cars, Wanderer was put in charge of standard mid-size cars, and DKW was tasked with small cars and motorcycles.

Audi has been conducting crash tests for over 75 years now
Before you start thinking about the technology available during those times, let us just explain the process to you. They didn’t have dummies, or slow-motion camera or advanced impact sensors. Instead, they’d roll down an Audi F7 from a hill in front of a group of people and demonstrate the safety of their cars.

Produced a race car that went over 268 mph in 1938
Before WW II, Mercedes and the Auto Union were entangled in an epic rivalry on track. The Auto Union with the help of Ferdinand Porsche designed a beast of a car, a V16, 560 horsepower monster, called the Auto Union Type C. They placed the engine at the back, which not only improved the weight distribution but also enhanced the handling of the car. The Type C clocked a mammoth 268.4 mph on the Autobahn.

There was no Audi after world war II
Like most German car companies, Auto Union pivoted to focus on the war effort. After WWII, most of Auto Union’s assets were located in Soviet controlled East Germany, and the main factory in the city of Chemnitz was dismantled in 1948. Company management fled to Ingolstadt a few years before, and in 1949 founded a new company called Auto Union GmbH. As Germany’s manufacturing sector and economy began to improve after the war, the new Auto Union started building motorcycles and light delivery vehicles under the DKW name. This would continue into the late 1950s when Daimler-Benz acquired Auto Union as a wholly-owned subsidiary.

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