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Tags: brief history of Audi In 1899 Hoch founded a company called gentleman named August Horch & Co. In 1901 I invented his first car with the help of 15 employees. By August 1909 left the company due to problems in the commercial side of things management. Mr. Hoch then founded a new company called Audi, whose name is derived from the Latin translation of the word Hoch. Augustus chose this name because I want to build cars under his name. In 1910 the Audi brand Automotive GmbH. Production of cars from Audi continued until the First World War. During the War Audi is forced to help make vehicles for the war effort, and then after the war there was a recession What almost saw the end of the brand itself. Horch left the administration in 1920, leaving the management company to fight through difficult times from 1927 through 1930. In 1931 management decided that the only way to keep the company at the surface must be combined with other automobile manufacturers. This saw the creation of what is called Auto Union. This union between manufacturers with great success until World War II. During the war in every factory in Germany was destroyed by American fire. After the war, there are many military vehicles is necessary spare parts and maintenance, is the main reason for manufacturers to have a new start in Ingolstadt, Germany.Daimler-Benz took a 87% holding in 1958 the Auto Union company increased to 100% in 1959. They then decided to repair the brand Auto Union Company based on the lack of earnings in 1960. Coincidentally the closure of these companies allow the brand name Audi rediscovered by opening new factories closed which has drawn near production ready engine.Volkswagen modern four stroke acquired 50% holding The new Audi company in 1964, 18 months after he bought the rest of the stock control and 1966 the use of Volkswagen Audi to save the extra 60,000′pjanti Beetles per year. From 1970 Volkswagen introduced the Audi brand in the U.S.. At this time the image is Audi conservative. With models like the Audi 50, Audi 100 and Audi 80. 1986 Audi 80 was considered to have an image of the grandfather of a car person. Then in 1987 Audi has a new and elegant for its time, Audi 90. The Audi 90 was a set of standard features, surpassing even what Audi previously released. During the early 1990 Audi began selling its target demographic and base of smaller customers. Body style is reworked to be more beautiful and aerodynamic while new machine is designed to offer more on-road performance with changing the suspension Which made the car more responsive and fun to drive. From 2000 onwards Audi rooms continue to grow. Audi now has six manufacturing plants throughout the world differently to cope with demand for its vehicles. That basically disappeared for a partner in its early years should be mentioned as one of the brand more successful in recovering the history of the automobile business.