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1899 - August Horch started an automobile company using the brand as Horch in Zwickau, Germany.
1909 - The members of the force in August Horch August Horch resign starts a new company, again using as Horch brand name former partners sue for trademark infringement in August Horch and is forced to find a new name of his son, studying Latin at the time, suggests Audi, the Latin term for the hearing and the meaning of the name Horch.
1921 - Audi introduces a left player, the first German car manufacturer to create a car with the left hand, making it easier to judge passage and providing a superior view of oncoming traffic.
1928 - Jorgen Rasmussen buys a majority share of Audi and integrates eight-cylinder engines in cars Rickenbacker.
1929 - the first eight engines from Audi cylinders are introduced into cars Audi Zwickau and Audi Dresden.
1932 - Audi merged with Horch himself, DKW and Wanderer The conglomerate is then called Auto Union Auto Union uses four chain doubled to symbolize the joining of Audi firms continued to use this symbol on his cars years later.
1940 - Audi is forced to make vehicles for the German army and civilian production is stopped.
1945 - At the end of World War II, Auto Union factories were dismantled and expropriated without compensation.
1949 - Auto Union is restored in Bavaria and began producing motorcycles and delivery vans.
1950 - Auto Union DKW Meisterklasse the present, a saloon car in the public and also available as a convertible.
1964 - Volkswagen acquires brands in the Union Auo.
1965 - Volkswagen Audi brand relaunches, more than one model distinction rather than a real production.
1970 - Volkswagen introduced the Audi brand to the United States beginning with the Audi 100.
1980 - Volkswagen starts to create racing models for the US market, starting with the Audi Quattro, to build the Audi brand as a reliable, fast and luxurious.
1985 - The company name was officially changed to Audi AG.
1996 - The Audi sales improve in America after a brief decline resulting from the proximity of the gas and the brake pedal The Audi A4 is introduced in the US market.
2008 - Audi celebrated its 13th consecutive year of sales of more than one million cars.
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