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Audi traces its history back to 1899 when August Horch established a brand, Horch, to compete with Mercedes Benz and Horch had a dispute with his business partners and he left the company since he no longer had the right to his own name, he started a new company, naming Audi, Horch Latin or hark.
In 1932, Audi has joined forces with three other companies to form Auto Union the first four Auto Union companies are represented by the rings that overlap the Audi logo.
Just 120 of the best employees from the Audi factory qualify to work on prestigious assembly line R8 Over half of R8 workers are over 40 It is said that the best way to identify is to look for gray hair the plant called silverliners.
On an average day, the Audi plant in Neckarsulm, Germany, is revealed only 20 R8s.
It takes eight days or 70 hours of time on the assembly line to turn the R8 raw aluminum to one of the fastest cars on the road.
R8 has a body all-aluminum, reducing the weight of the frame of only 209 kg to less than half of a steel frame weight.
Each R8 requires more than 5,000 different parts, equipped mostly by hand.
The R8 V-10 rocket engine at 96 km / h in just 3 8 seconds making it one of the fastest cars on the road.
The R8 race won Lemans five of six starts.
Producers for the movie, Ironman, cast the R8 as the ideal sports car for its protagonist, the high-tech billionaire Tony Stark The R8 spatial framework was so well built, it changed the end of film directors stunt originally scheduled to collide the R8 with Ironman opponent, and return it but it wouldn t return the filmmakers tried another shot, but the Audi R8 still prevailed.
Lamborghinis are few sites worldwide, except near the village of Sant'Agata Bolognese about 32 kilometers north of Bologna This rural community is home to Automobili Lamborghini, S p A plant that designed these legendary sports cars since 1963.
Lamborghini produced a record 2,430 vehicles in 2008, nearly 1800 have been the best selling car of the company, the Gallardo, and a little more than 630 of them were the flagship model of the company, the Murcielago.
The Murcielago blasts from 0 to 100 kph in 3rd 4 seconds and can reach a maximum speed of 340 km per hour.
Lamborghini Murcielago topped with a new version, the Murcielago SV SV stands for Super Veloce, which means super fast The Murcielago SV sells for 300,000 euros.
The Murcielago SV is hand made by about 130 people Except for the steel roof and doors, the whole Mucielago OAS body is made of carbon fiber.
In the mid 1950s, Ferruccio Lamborghini built an industrial empire by manufacturing farm tractors With his wealth, Lamborghini bought a Ferrari but felt it had too many repairs, he had his tractor mechanic look at the problem and discovered his Ferrari used the same clutch his tractor Lamborghini decided to design a sports car off to Ferrari.
Ferruccio Lamborghini chose the bull logo for Lamborghini because his astrological sign was Taurus The plant also has many names its cars after fighting bulls, including the Miura, Diablo, Gallardo and Murcielago.
Lamborghini test drivers have a saying, Every Lamborghini comes with two problems, the speed limit and the police The factory actually provides two Lamborghini Gallardos to the Italian State Police using tiny car luggage compartment sports to provide organ transplants to patients in need.
IKEA began Småland, Sweden in 1943 at the age of 17, Ingvar Kamprad sold matchboxes, pens and small furniture He named the company IKEA acronym for his first and last name and the farm the village where he spent his childhood, he made deliveries on his bicycle and later joined with the strength of its local milk lorry effective approach kept prices affordable.
More than 500 million customers visit IKEA each year, making it the largest furniture supplier in the world.
IKEA has around 300 stores in 36 countries and 42 distribution centers in 18 countries and more than 1,000 suppliers.
We need to make 10 000 article of the range of IKEA products at five plants across Europe.
IKEA has more than 250 million cubic meters of products each year.
Zbaszynek, Poland has the largest wood production plant Associates the company to create 30 million tables, desks and cabinets each year.
In the nearby town, Nowe Skalmierzyce, COM 40, an IKEA supplier, built 3000 pieces of upholstered furniture daily, including 900 Ektorp sofas.
IKEA has sold over 40 million Billy bookcases in the last three decades Weekly, automated production line creates 130,000 IKEA shelving Billy Robots produce 10,000 libraries daily.
The metro was a part of the New York landscape for over 100 years on October 27, 1904, the first train left the City Hall underground station.
Today, more than five million people use the New York subway every day, which is nearly 2 billion passengers per year.
Current route of the subway extends over 1300 km, has 468 stations and more than 6,000 cars.
Each car can carry about 250 passengers at a speed of nearly 90 kilometers per hour.
Trains can weigh up to 400 tons run along the tracks 24 hours a day.
Each car starts in Brazil, where workers welded body, a process 23 steps made almost entirely by hand The only roof requires 3,500 welds.
Then workers in Hornell, New York gather the subway car as mostly by hand.
Each car takes nearly 90 days to build the plant in New York working on two subway cars a day with nearly 800 employees working two shifts.
Each car has more than 11 000 pieces and 4000 parts usually come in one day.
An ingenious African-American inventor Granville Woods, launched a power distribution system that is still used by the New York subway and the world most people know that the third rail, where electricity is transmitted to train through a pad which maintains contact with an electrified rail.
The New York subway tracks are made from 12 meters of carbon steel long, only six centimeters wide.
Geometry trains ride the rails not stop taking measures laser-guided trails a beach more than two centimeters on alignment, requires repair.
In 1906, Rolls-Royce introduced its first car, the Silver Ghost After a record of 24,000 kilometers non-stop endurance race, it gained a reputation as the best car in the world Just over 7000 Ghosts of money were built.
About 65 percent of all cars Rolls-Royce ever built are still on the road today.
Rolls-Royce was acquired by the British conglomerate Vickers in 1980 and purchased by BMW in 1998. BMW built a new factory dedicated Rolls-Royce in Goodwood, England The plant itself was designed to be energy efficient, eco environmental benefit and to manufacture the same time.
The Phantom was introduced in 2003 and is the first incarnation of the new generation of cars Rolls-Royce It comes in 44,000 colors.
Every Rolls-Royce Phantom starts Unterhallerau, Germany over 200 sections of extruded aluminum and 300 alloy parts that are welded together by hand Phantom has the largest aluminum chassis while the spaceframe car ever made To avoid welding heat to deform the roof, a team of two metal workers must weld the two sides of the roof to complete unison This solder is 40 cm the one of the longest continuous welds in aluminum in the automotive industry.
It takes at least two months to build each Phantom.
Every Rolls-Royce Phantom comes with Teflon, concealable umbrellas that are integrated into the doors and pop with the touch of a button.
The Phantom has a mammoth V-12 can carry two and a half tons of 0 to 100 km / h in just 5 9 seconds Low torque Phantom range enables it to take a stop in 2nd gear, adding to a feeling of effortless acceleration, or floating as Rolls-Royce calls it.
The iconic hood ornament is called the Spirit of Ecstasy, and was commissioned in 1911 and carved by the famous artist, Charles Sykes He embellishes each Rolls-Royce since today's Spirit Ecstasy is mounted on a mechanism which retracts the ornament in the grid by remote control or automatically in the event of collision.
A ghost inside requires an average of 75 square meters or 18 natural grain leather hides He takes the leather shop 17 days for a full padded interior.
The coaching line is a contrasting pinstripe on the shoulder of the car There are not robots or machines used to paint the coach line on a Rolls-Royce Each line of the coach is painted Freehand Painter , Court Mark He needs three hours to paint each line coach.
Ferdinand Porsche was a self-taught automotive designer and engineer in 1900 at the age of 25, he developed the first gasoline-electric hybrid car for an Austrian company Then in the 30s, he sold the German government on his dream a small, simple car that would be affordable for the masses this car has become the Volkswagen Beetle.
The postwar shortages have forced Porsche to use components from the Volkswagen Beetle of the rear-mounted, four-cylinder engine air cooled, gearbox and suspension to make his next car The car that emerged in 1948 was the Porsche 356 over 75,000 were made during 15 years.
Since 1964, every 911 ever built was made at the Porsche factory in Stuttgart, Germany.
The plant produces about 40 Boxters, about 110 Porsche 911s and 500 engines per day.
Porsche built 16 versions of the 911, the 911 GT3 that provides 435 horsepower.
Over four decades, the design of the 911 has been updated five times given six generations.
The most popular colors for a Porsche are black, white and red, but Porsche can paint a custom car any color for a fee.
The plant makes more than 20 different versions of its 6-cylinder engine ranging from 255 to 535 horsepower.
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