100 years of Audi

Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of Audi; August Horch had founded the August Horch Automobilwerke GmbH company 100 years ago in Zwickau, Germany. Horch had left his company Horch & Cie. Motorwagen Werke after a dispute with the supervisory board.

Horch did not spend too long waiting around; he renamed his company with a variation of his last name, which translates to Audi in Latin, coming up with Audi Automobilwerke. Audi certainly had some great cars on the roads all those years ago; one of the most memorable has to be the 1919 Type C.

Back in 1921, Audi showed that they could be a trendsetter, coming up with its first left-hand drive car, the Audi 14/50 hp Type K. Then in 1928, Audiwerke AG became part of the DKW family and in 1931 developed the small front-wheel drive DKW car.

100 years ago, Audi were showing their innovations of to the autoworld, things have not changed in 2009. The German automaker is now laying the groundwork for an entirely new line and a new way of developing them.

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