Audi

The Audi AG , based in Ingolstadt in Bavaria is a German automobile manufacturer, theVolkswagen group belongs.

The brand name is a play on words to circumvent the naming rights of the former motor vehicle manufacturer Horch . Company founder August Horch , the A. Horch & Cie. Motor Car Works Zwickau with the CFO had left disagreements to and looked for a company name (company) for his new company and found him in a proposal by a Zwickau high school students, the listening to the Latin translated. ^[4] Audi is imperative singular ofaudire (in German, listen , listen ), meaning "Listen!" or just "listening". On 25 April 1910 was the Audi car factories in Zwickau GmbH in the commercial register of the city of Zwickau entered. 1928 took DKW , Audi works. Both companies were part of the 1932Auto Union .