Standard question - what's the car?
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Triumph Man said:
It’s an Auto Union something or other - that’s as much as I’ve got 
I want to say 1000 but that seems too obvious
ETA it is a 1000
Yep, what he said.. I want to say 1000 but that seems too obvious ETA it is a 1000
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-YsvGMvWO34
biggbn said:
It's absolutely marvelous that's what it is. Auto Union. Or as it became known, Audi...
Sort of.Audi was the only one of the 4 Auto Union brands to survive, and actually got paused for a few decades.
Audi, Horch, Wanderer and DKW made up Auto Union.
After the war DKW was the only one still going because they made cheap 2 strokes, and Horch and Wanderer were mothballed.
Wanderer went back to the original owner at some point.
When Daimler Benz sold it to VW in the 60s they kept Horch, so only DKW and Audi remained. VW killed DKW because it was associated with 2 strokes and launched the Audi as an Auto Union model.
Auto Union merged with NSU and in the 80s became Audi AG.
At least that is my understanding of the twisted web of mergers and takeovers
Riley Blue said:
boxy but good said:
DKW 36 F93
Rear window shape doesn't look right to me.
Jader1973 said:
Audi was the only one of the 4 Auto Union brands to survive, and actually got paused for a few decades.
Audi, Horch, Wanderer and DKW made up Auto Union.
Nevertheless Audi still uses the A-U logo which confuses the young and easily confused. For example, they think those 1930s GP racing cars were Audis!Audi, Horch, Wanderer and DKW made up Auto Union.
Jader1973 said:
biggbn said:
It's absolutely marvelous that's what it is. Auto Union. Or as it became known, Audi...
Sort of.Audi was the only one of the 4 Auto Union brands to survive, and actually got paused for a few decades.
Audi, Horch, Wanderer and DKW made up Auto Union.
After the war DKW was the only one still going because they made cheap 2 strokes, and Horch and Wanderer were mothballed.
Wanderer went back to the original owner at some point.
When Daimler Benz sold it to VW in the 60s they kept Horch, so only DKW and Audi remained. VW killed DKW because it was associated with 2 strokes and launched the Audi as an Auto Union model.
Auto Union merged with NSU and in the 80s became Audi AG.
At least that is my understanding of the twisted web of mergers and takeovers
Fascinating that the name "Audi" is the Latin translation of "Horch", as in August Horch, the founder of the eponymous brand. Both words roughly translate as "listen" (hence the origin of the word "audio").
So the car that rocked the world of rallying in the 1980s wasn't the Audi quattro, but the Listen 4.
So the car that rocked the world of rallying in the 1980s wasn't the Audi quattro, but the Listen 4.
Turbobanana said:
Fascinating that the name "Audi" is the Latin translation of "Horch", as in August Horch, the founder of the eponymous brand. Both words roughly translate as "listen" (hence the origin of the word "audio").
When August Horch set up a new company he chose to call it Audi, which is the Latin for Horch, to show its origins. It also had its own emblem:
https://fabrikbrands.com/wp-content/uploads/Audi-L...
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