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produces cars under the Audi brand, (pronounced /a??di/). It Auto Insurance Companies is part of the Volkswagen Group. The name Audi is Auto Insurance Companies based on a Latin translation of the last name of Auto Insurance Companies the founder August "Horch", itself the German word for �hear. Auto Insurance Companies Audi is headquartered in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany and has been Auto Insurance Companies an almost wholly-owned (99.55%) subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group (Volkswagen Auto Insurance Companies AG) since 1964. Volkswagen Group relaunched the Audi name when Auto Insurance Companies it was acquired as part of Volkswagen's purchase of the Auto Insurance Companies Auto Union and NSU Motorenwerke AG (NSU) assets Audi's corporate Auto Insurance Companies tagline is Vorsprung durch Technik, meaning "Advantage through Technology". The Auto Insurance Companies German-language tagline is used in many European countries, including the Auto Insurance Companies United Kingdom, and in other markets, such as Latin America, Auto Insurance Companies Oceania and parts of Asia including Japan. A few years Auto Insurance Companies ago, the North American tagline was "Innovation through technology", but Auto Insurance Companies in Canada the German tagline Vorsprung durch Technik was used Auto Insurance Companies in advertising. More recently, however, Audi has updated the tagline Auto Insurance Companies to "Truth in Engineering" in the U.S Histor [edit] Birth Auto Insurance Companies of the company and its nam Audi Type EThe company Auto Insurance Companies traces its origins back to 1899 and August Horch. The Auto Insurance Companies first Horch automobile was produced in 1901 in Zwickau.[3] In Auto Insurance Companies 1909, Horch was forced out of the company he had Auto Insurance Companies founded.[3] He then started a new company in Zwickau and Auto Insurance Companies continued using the Horch brand His former partners sued him Auto Insurance Companies for trademark infringement and a German court determined that the Auto Insurance Companies Horch brand belonged to his former company.[3] August Horch was Auto Insurance Companies barred from using his own family name in his new Auto Insurance Companies car business, so he called a meeting at the apartment Auto Insurance Companies of Franz Fikentscher to come up with a new name Auto Insurance Companies for his company. During this meeting Franz's son was quietly Auto Insurance Companies studying Latin in a corner of the room. Several times Auto Insurance Companies he looked like he was on the verge of saying Auto Insurance Companies something but would just swallow his words and continue working, Auto Insurance Companies until he finally blurted out, "Father � audiatur et altera Auto Insurance Companies pars... wouldn't it be a good idea to call it Auto Insurance Companies audi instead of horch?". "Horch!" in German means "Hark!" or Auto Insurance Companies "hear", which is "Audi" in Latin (compare audible). The idea Auto Insurance Companies was enthusiastically accepted by everyone attending the meeting.[4] It is Auto Insurance Companies sometimes (incorrectly) believed that AUDI is a backronym which stands Auto Insurance Companies for "Auto Union Deutschland Ingolstadt" Audi started with a 2,612 Auto Insurance Companies cc (2.6 litre) four cylinder model[clarification needed] followed by a Auto Insurance Companies 3564 cc (3.6 L) model, as well as 4680 cc Auto Insurance Companies (4.7 L) and 5720 cc (5.7L) models. These cars were Auto Insurance Companies successful even in sporting events. The first six cylinder model,[clarification Auto Insurance Companies needed] 4655 cc (4.7 L) appeared in 1924 August Horch Auto Insurance Companies left the Audi company in 1920. In September 1921, Audi Auto Insurance Companies became the first German car manufacturer to present a production Auto Insurance Companies car with left-hand drive, the Audi Type K.[5] Left-hand drive Auto Insurance Companies spread and established dominance during the 1920s because it provided Auto Insurance Companies a better view of oncoming traffic, making overtaking maneuvers safer.[5 Auto Insurance Companies [edit] The Auto Union er Cover of the 1937 English Auto Insurance Companies motor sport magazine with an Auto Union racing car on Auto Insurance Companies a banked trackIn August 1928 Jorgen Rasmussen, the owner of Auto Insurance Companies DKW, acquired the majority of shares in Audiwerke AG.[6] In Auto Insurance Companies the same year, Rasmussen bought the remains of the US Auto Insurance Companies automobile manufacturer Rickenbacker, including the manufacturing equipment for eight cylinder Auto Insurance Companies engines. These engines were used in Audi Zwickau and Audi Auto Insurance Companies Dresden models that were launched in 1929. At the same Auto Insurance Companies time, six cylinder and four cylinder (licensed from Peugeot) models Auto Insurance Companies were manufactured. Audi cars of that era were luxurious cars Auto Insurance Companies equipped with special bodywork In 1932, Audi merged with Horch, Auto Insurance Companies DKW and Wanderer, to form Auto Union Before World War Auto Insurance Companies II, Auto Union used the four interlinked rings that make Auto Insurance Companies up the Audi badge today, representing these four brands. This Auto Insurance Companies badge was used, however, only on Auto Union racing cars Auto Insurance Companies in that period while the member companies used their own Auto Insurance Companies names and emblems. The technological development became more and more Auto Insurance Companies concentrated and some Audi models were propelled by Horch or Auto Insurance Companies Wanderer built engines [edit] The four-ring log The Audi emblem Auto Insurance Companies is four overlapping rings that represent the four marques of Auto Insurance Companies Auto Union. The Audi emblem symbolizes the amalgamation of Audi Auto Insurance Companies with DKW, Horch and Wanderer: the first ring represents Audi, Auto Insurance Companies the second represents DKW, third is Horch, and the fourth Auto Insurance Companies and last ring Wanderer.[7] [8 [edit] Second World War perio Auto Insurance Companies The build up and onset of World War II encouraged Auto Insurance Companies the development and production of special vehicles for military purposes Auto Insurance Companies in the 1930s. The Auto Union became an important supplier Auto Insurance Companies of vehicles to Germany's armed forces.[6] Following the outbreak of Auto Insurance Companies war, civilian production was interrupted in May 1940. After this, Auto Insurance Companies the company produced exclusively for military purposes.[6 During World War Auto Insurance Companies II, the Auto Union produced the Sd-Kfz 222 armored car, Auto Insurance Companies which was used in the German army during the war. Auto Insurance Companies It was powered by an 81 hp (60 kW) Horch/Auto Auto Insurance Companies Union V8 engine and reached a top speed of 50 Auto Insurance Companies miles per hour on the road Another vehicle which was Auto Insurance Companies used in World War II to shuttle German military officials Auto Insurance Companies safely was known as the Kraftfahrzeug (KFZ 11) or the Auto Insurance Companies Horch Type 80. The military used it as a light Auto Insurance Companies transport vehicle The Auto Union plants were heavily bombed and Auto Insurance Companies severely damaged within the last two years of the war Auto Insurance Companies [edit] Post-War perio The Saxonian plants of Auto Union was Auto Insurance Companies located in what was the Soviet occupied zone of Germany. Auto Insurance Companies In 1945 on the orders of the Soviet military administration Auto Insurance Companies in Germany, they were dismantled as part of war reparations.[9] Auto Insurance Companies Following this, the company�s entire assets were expropriated without compensation.[9] Auto Insurance Companies On 17 August 1948 Auto Union AG of Chemnitz was Auto Insurance Companies deleted from the commercial register.[9] These actions had the effect Auto Insurance Companies of liquidating Germany's Auto Union AG. The remains of the Auto Insurance Companies Audi plant of Zwickau became the VEB (for "People Owned Auto Insurance Companies Enterprise") Automobilwerk Zwickau, AWZ for short (which translates into English Auto Insurance Companies as Automobile factory Zwickau).[10 A new Auto Union was launched Auto Insurance Companies in Auto Loan Companies Ingolstadt, Bavaria with loans from the Bavarian state government Auto Insurance Companies and Marshall Plan aid.[11] The reformed company was launched 3 Auto Insurance Companies September, 1949 and continued DKW's tradition of producing front-wheel drive Auto Insurance Companies vehicles with two-stroke engines.[11] This included production of a small Auto Insurance Companies but sturdy 125 cc motorcycle and a DKW delivery van, Auto Insurance Companies the DKW F 89 L, also known as DKW-Schnelllaster. Many Auto Insurance Companies employees of the destroyed factories in Zwickau came to Ingolstadt Auto Insurance Companies and restarted the production In 1950, after a former Rheinmetall Auto Insurance Companies gun factory in Dusseldorf was established as a second assembly Auto Insurance Companies facility the company's first post-war car went into production: the Auto Insurance Companies DKW Meisterklasse F 89 P, available as a saloon and Auto Insurance Companies a four-seater Karmann convertible.[9][12] The van and sedan were based Auto Insurance Companies on the DKW F8 and the DKW F9 pre-war constructions Auto Insurance Companies The former Audi factory in Zwickau, now under Soviet control, Auto Insurance Companies restarted assembly of the pre-war-models in 1949. Those models were Auto Insurance Companies renamed to IFA F8 and IFA F9 and were similar Auto Insurance Companies to the West German versions. West German and East German Auto Insurance Companies models were equipped with the traditional and renowned DKW two-stroke Auto Insurance Companies engines In 1958, Daimler-Benz acquired 87% of Auto Union and Auto Insurance Companies in the next year 100% Audi 75In 1964, Volkswagen acquired Auto Insurance Companies the factory in Ingolstadt and the trademark rights of the Auto Insurance Companies Auto Union. Two-stroke engines became less popular towards the middle Auto Insurance Companies of the 1960s as customers were more attracted to the Auto Insurance Companies comfortable four-stroke engines. In September 1965, the last DKW model, Auto Insurance Companies the DKW F102, got a four-stroke engine implanted and some Auto Insurance Companies front and rear styling changes. Volkswagen dumped the brand DKW Auto Insurance Companies because of its two-stroke smell, relaunching the Audi brand. The Auto Insurance Companies new model was classified internally as the F103 and sold Auto Insurance Companies as simply the "Audi" (the name being a model designation Auto Insurance Companies rather than the manufacturer, which was still officially Auto Union) Auto Insurance Companies but later came to be known as the Audi 72. Auto Insurance Companies Developments of the model were named for their horsepower ratings Auto Insurance Companies and sold as the Audi 60, 75, 80, and Super Auto Insurance Companies 90. These models sold until 1972 Audi 80 assembly line Auto Insurance Companies in Wolfsburg as of 1973In 1969, Auto Union merged with Auto Insurance Companies NSU, based in Neckarsulm, near Stuttgart. In the 1950s, NSU Auto Insurance Companies had been the world's largest manufacturer of motorcycles, but had Auto Insurance Companies moved on to produce small cars like the NSU Prinz, Auto Insurance Companies the TT and TTS versions of which are still popular Auto Insurance Companies as vintage race cars. NSU then focused on new rotary Auto Insurance Companies engines based on the ideas of Felix Wankel. In 1967, Auto Insurance Companies the new NSU Ro 80 was a space-age car, well Auto Insurance Companies ahead of its time in technical details such as aerodynamics, Auto Insurance Companies light weight, and safety but teething problems with the rotary Auto Insurance Companies engines put an end to the independence of NSU. Today Auto Insurance Companies the Neckarsulm plant is used to produce the larger Audi Auto Insurance Companies models A6 and A8. The Neckarsulm factory is also home Auto Insurance Companies of the quattro GmbH, this subsidiary is responsible for development Auto Insurance Companies and production of the Audi high performance cars: the R8 Auto Insurance Companies and the "RS" model range The mid-sized car that NSU Auto Insurance Companies had been working on, the K70, was intended to slot Auto Insurance Companies between the rear-engined Prinz models and the futuristic NSU Ro Auto Insurance Companies 80. However, Volkswagen took the K70 for its own range, Auto Insurance Companies spelling the end of NSU as a separate brand [edit] Auto Insurance Companies The modern era of Aud The new merged company was Auto Insurance Companies known as Audi NSU Auto Union AG, and saw the Auto Insurance Companies emergence of Audi as a separate brand for the first Auto Insurance Companies time since the pre-war era. Volkswagen introduced the Audi brand Auto Insurance Companies to the United States for the 1970 model year The Auto Insurance Companies first new car of this regime was the Audi 100 Auto Insurance Companies of 1968. This was soon joined by the Audi 80/Fox Auto Insurance Companies (which formed the basis for the 1973 Volkswagen Passat) in Auto Insurance Companies 1972 and the Audi 50 (later rebadged as the Volkswagen Auto Insurance Companies Polo) in 1974. The Audi 50 was a seminal design Auto Insurance Companies in many ways, because it was the first incarnation of Auto Insurance Companies the Golf/Polo concept, one that led to a hugely successful Auto Insurance Companies world car Audi QuattroThe Audi image at this time was Auto Insurance Companies a conservative one, and so, a proposal from chassis engineer Auto Insurance Companies Jorg Bensinger[13] was accepted to develop the four-wheel drive technology Auto Insurance Companies in Volkswagen's Iltis military vehicle for an Audi performance

car Auto Insurance Companies and rally racing car. The performance car, introduced in 1980, Auto Insurance Companies was named the "Audi Quattro," a turbocharged coupe which was Auto Insurance Companies also the first German large-scale production vehicle to feature permanent Auto Insurance Companies all-wheel drive through a center differential. Commonly referred to as Auto Insurance Companies the "Ur-Quattro" (the "Ur-" prefix is a German augmentative used, Auto Insurance Companies in this case, to mean "original" and is also applied Auto Insurance Companies to the first generation of Audi's S4 and S6 sport Auto Insurance Companies sedans, as in "UrS4" and "UrS6"), few of these vehicles Auto Insurance Companies were produced (all hand-built by a single team), but the Auto Insurance Companies model was a great success in rallying. Prominent wins proved Auto Insurance Companies the viability of all-wheel drive racecars, and the Audi name Auto Insurance Companies became associated with advances in automotive technology In 1985, with Auto Insurance Companies the Auto Union and NSU brands effectively dead, the company's Auto Insurance Companies official name was now shortened to simply Audi AG In Auto Insurance Companies 1986, as the Passat-based Audi 80 was beginning to develop Auto Insurance Companies a kind of "grandfather's car" image, the type 89 was Auto Insurance Companies introduced. This completely new development sold extremely well. However, its Auto Insurance Companies modern and dynamic exterior belied the low performance of its Auto Insurance Companies base engine, and its base package was quite spartan (even Auto Insurance Companies the passenger-side mirror was an option.) In 1987, Audi put Auto Insurance Companies forward a new and very elegant Audi 90, which had Auto Insurance Companies a much superior set of standard features. In the early Auto Insurance Companies 1990s, sales began to slump for the Audi 80 series, Auto Insurance Companies and some basic construction problems started to surface This decline Auto Insurance Companies in sales was not helped in the United States by Auto Insurance Companies a 60 Minutes report which purported to show that Audi Auto Insurance Companies automobiles suffered from "unintended acceleration". The 60 Minutes report was Auto Insurance Companies based on customer reports of acceleration when the brake pedal Auto Insurance Companies was pushed. Independent investigators concluded that this was most likely Auto Insurance Companies due to a close placement of the accelerator and brake Auto Insurance Companies pedals (unlike American cars), and the inability, when not paying Auto Insurance Companies attention, to distinguish between the two. (In race cars, when Auto Insurance Companies manually downshifting under heavy braking, the accelerator has to be Auto Insurance Companies used in order to match revs properly, so both pedals Auto Insurance Companies have to be close to each other to be operated Auto Insurance Companies by the right foot at once, toes on the brake, Auto Insurance Companies heel on the accelerator; a driving technique called heel-and-toe). This Auto Insurance Companies did not become an issue in Europe, possibly due to Auto Insurance Companies more widespread experience among European drivers with manual transmissions The Auto Insurance Companies report immediately crushed Audi sales, and Audi renamed the affected Auto Insurance Companies model (The 5000 became the 100/200 in 1989, as it Auto Insurance Companies was elsewhere). Audi had contemplated withdrawing from the American market Auto Insurance Companies until sales began to recover in the mid-1990s. The turning Auto Insurance Companies point for Audi was the sale of the new A4 Auto Insurance Companies in 1996, and with the release of the A4/A6/A8 series, Auto Insurance Companies which was developed together with VW and other sister brands Auto Insurance Companies (so called "platforms") Audi R8In the early part of the Auto Insurance Companies 21st century, Audi set forth on a German racetrack to Auto Insurance Companies claim and maintain several World Records, such as Top Speed Auto Insurance Companies Endurance. This effort was in-line with the company's heritage from Auto Insurance Companies the 1930s racing era "Silver Arrows" Currently, Audi's sales are Auto Insurance Companies growing strongly in Europe. 2004 marked the 11th straight increase Auto Insurance Companies in sales, selling 779,441 vehicles worldwide. Record figures were recorded Auto Insurance Companies from 21 out of about 50 major sales markets. The Auto Insurance Companies largest sales increases came from Eastern Europe (+19.3%), Africa (+17.2%) Auto Insurance Companies and the Middle East (+58.5%)[citation needed]. In March 2005, Audi Auto Insurance Companies built its first two dealerships in India following its high Auto Insurance Companies increase in sales in the region Their 2007 worldwide sales Auto Insurance Companies have been released as 964,151 vehicles sold, yet another record Auto Insurance Companies for the brand. In 2008, Audi has achieved the 13th Auto Insurance Companies record year in a row passing the 1 million unit Auto Insurance Companies mark with 1,003,400 sold units.[14 Audi Q7 Audi Q5 Audi Auto Insurance Companies R8 Audi TT Audi A4 Audi A3 Audi A5 Audi Auto Insurance Companies A6 Audi A8 2007-Present 2009- Present 2006-Present 1999-Present 1996- Present Auto Insurance Companies 1996- Present 2007- Present 1995-Present 1994- Present xcludes the S Auto Insurance Companies Models, and the Hybrid [edit] Technolog This section does Auto Insurance Companies not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this Auto Insurance Companies article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may Auto Insurance Companies be challenged and removed. (June 2008) [edit] Bodyshell Audi produces Auto Insurance Companies 100% galvanized cars to prevent corrosion,[15] and was the first Auto Insurance Companies mass-market vehicle to do so, following introduction of the process Auto Insurance Companies by Porsche, c.1975. Along with other precautionary measures,the full-body zinc Auto Insurance Companies coating has proved to be very effective in preventing rust. Auto Insurance Companies The body's resulting durability even surpassed Audi's own expectations, causing Auto Insurance Companies the manufacturer to extend its original 10-year warranty against corrosion Auto Insurance Companies perforation to currently 12 years (except for Aluminium bodies which Auto Insurance Companies don't rust).[16 An all-aluminium car was brought forward by Audi, Auto Insurance Companies and in 1994 the Audi A8 was launched, which introduced Auto Insurance Companies aluminum space frame technology (called Audi Space Frame). Audi introduced Auto Insurance Companies a new series of vehicles in the mid-nineties and continues Auto Insurance Companies to pursue leading-edge technology and high performance. Prior to that Auto Insurance Companies effort, Audi used examples of the Type 44 chassis fabricated Auto Insurance Companies out of aluminum as test-beds for the technique [edit] Drive Auto Insurance Companies layou In all its post Volkswagen-era models, Audi has firmly Auto Insurance Companies refused to adopt the traditional rear-wheel drive layout favoured by Auto Insurance Companies its two arch rivals Mercedes-Benz and BMW, favouring either front-wheel Auto Insurance Companies drive or four-wheel drive. To achieve this, Audi has usually Auto Insurance Companies engineered its cars with a longitudinally front mounted engine, in Auto Insurance Companies an "overhung" position, over the front wheels � in front Auto Insurance Companies of the axle line. While this allows for equal length Auto Insurance Companies driveshafts (therefore combatting torque steer), and the easy adoption of Auto Insurance Companies four-wheel drive, it goes against the ideal 50:50 weight distribution Auto Insurance Companies (as do all front wheel drive cars) Audi has recently Auto Insurance Companies applied the quattro badge to models such as the A3 Auto Insurance Companies and TT which do not actually use the Torsen-based system Auto Insurance Companies as in prior years, with a mechanical centre differential, but Auto Insurance Companies with the Swedish Haldex Traction electro-mechanical clutch 4WD system [edit] Auto Insurance Companies Engine In the 1980s, Audi, along with Volvo, was the Auto Insurance Companies champion of the inline 5 cylinder, 2.1/2.2 L engine as Auto Insurance Companies a longer lasting alternative to more traditional 6 cylinder engines. Auto Insurance Companies This engine was used not only in production cars but Auto Insurance Companies also in their race cars. The 2.1 L inline 5 Auto Insurance Companies cylinder engine was used as a base for the rally Auto Insurance Companies cars in the 1980s, providing well over 400 horsepower (298 Auto Insurance Companies kW) after modification. Before 1990, there were engines produced with Auto Insurance Companies a displacement between 2.0 L and 2.3 L. This range Auto Insurance Companies of engine capacity was a good combination of good fuel Auto Insurance Companies economy (which was on the mind of every motorist in Auto Insurance Companies the 1980s) and, of course, a good amount of power Auto Insurance Companies [edit] Luxury competitor Through the early 1990s, Audi began to Auto Insurance Companies move more towards the position of being a real competitor Auto Insurance Companies in its target market against global luxury leaders Mercedes-Benz and Auto Insurance Companies BMW. This began with the release of the Audi V8 Auto Insurance Companies in 1990. It was essentially a new engine fitted to Auto Insurance Companies the Audi 100/200, but with noticeable bodywork differences. Most obvious Auto Insurance Companies was the new grille that was now incorporated in the Auto Insurance Companies bonnet By 1991, Audi had the 4 cylinder Audi 80, Auto Insurance Companies the 5 cylinder Audi 90 and Audi 100, the turbocharged Auto Insurance Companies Audi 200 and the Audi V8. There was also a Auto Insurance Companies coupe version of the 80/90 with both 4 and 5 Auto Insurance Companies cylinder engines Although the five cylinder engine was a successful Auto Insurance Companies and very robust powerplant, it was still a little too Auto Insurance Companies different for the target market. With the introduction of an Auto Insurance Companies all-new Audi 100 in 1992, Audi introduced a 2.8L V6 Auto Insurance Companies engine. This engine was also fitted to a face-lifted Audi Auto Insurance Companies 80 (all 80 and 90 models were now badged 80 Auto Insurance Companies except for the USA), giving this model a choice of Auto Insurance Companies 4, 5 and 6 cylinder engines, in saloon/sedan, coupe and Auto Insurance Companies Cabriolet body styles The 5 cylinder was soon dropped as Auto Insurance Companies a major engine choice; however, a turbocharged 230 hp (169 Auto Insurance Companies kW) version remained. The engine, initially fitted to the 200 Auto Insurance Companies quattro 20V of 1991, was a derivative of the engine Auto Insurance Companies fitted to the Sport Quattro. It was fitted to the Auto Insurance Companies Audi Coupe, and named the S2 and also to the Auto Insurance Companies Audi 100 body, and named the S4. These two models Auto Insurance Companies were the beginning of the mass-produced S series of performance Auto Insurance Companies cars [edit] Audi Space Fram The Audi A8 replaced the Auto Insurance Companies V8 in 1994, with a aluminium space frame, known as Auto Insurance Companies the "Audi Space Frame" (ASF), to save weight. The weight Auto Insurance Companies reduction was offset by the quattro four-wheel drive system. It Auto Insurance Companies meant the car had similar performance to its rivals, but Auto Insurance Companies superior roadholding. The Audi A2 and Audi R8 also use Auto Insurance Companies Audi Space Frame designs [edit] A The next major model Auto Insurance Companies change was in 1995 when the Audi A4 replaced the Auto Insurance Companies Audi 80. The new nomenclature scheme was applied to the Auto Insurance Companies Audi 100 to become the Audi A6 (with a minor Auto Insurance Companies facelift). This also meant the S4 became the S6 and Auto Insurance Companies a new S4 was introduced in the A4 body. The Auto Insurance Companies S2 was discontinued. The Audi Cabriolet continued on (based on Auto Insurance Companies the Audi 80 platform) until 1999, gaining the engine upgrades Auto Insurance Companies along the way. A new A3 hatchback model (sharing the Auto Insurance Companies Volkswagen Golf Mk4's platform) was introduced to the range in Auto Insurance Companies 1996, and the radical Audi TT coupe and roadster were Auto Insurance Companies debuted in 1998 based on the same underpinnings. Another interesting Auto Insurance Companies model introduced was the Mercedes-Benz A-Class competitor, the Audi A2. Auto Insurance Companies The model sold relatively well in Europe, however, the A2 Auto Insurance Companies was discontinued in 2005 and Audi decided not to develop Auto Insurance Companies an immediate replacement The engines available throughout the range were Auto Insurance Companies now a 1.4L, 1.6L and 1.8L 4 cylinder, 1.8L 4-cylinder Auto Insurance Companies turbo, 2.6L and 2.8L V6, Of Audi 2.2L turbo-charged 5 cylinder and Auto Insurance Companies the 4.2L V8 engine. The V6s were replaced by new Auto Insurance Companies 2.4L and 2.8L 30V V6s in 1998, with marked improvement Auto Insurance Companies in power, torque and smoothness. Further engines were added along Auto Insurance Companies the way, including a 3.7L V8 and 6.0L W12 engine Auto Insurance Companies for the A8 [edit] DS At the turn of the Auto Insurance Companies century, Volkswagen introduced the Direct-Shift Gearbox, or DSG, an automated Auto Insurance Companies manual transmission, drivable like a conventional automatic transmission. Based on Auto Insurance Companies the gearbox found in the Group B S1, the system Auto Insurance Companies includes dual electrohydraulically controlled clutches instead of a torque converter. Auto Insurance Companies This is implemented in some VW Golfs, Audi A3 and Auto Insurance Companies TT models where DSG is called S-tronic [edit] FS New Auto Insurance Companies models of the A3, A4, A6 and A8 have been Auto Insurance Companies introduced, with the aging 1.8 litre engine now having been Auto Insurance Companies replaced by new Fuel Stratified Injection (FSI) engines. Nearly every Auto Insurance Companies petrol engined model in the range now incorporates this fuel-saving Auto Insurance Companies technology, including the following FSI engine.Petrol engines 1.6 litre Auto Insurance Companies 4 cylinder 115 bhp (86 kW; 117 PS) 2.0 litre Auto Insurance Companies 4 cylinder 150 bhp (112 kW; 152 PS) (Slowly being Auto Insurance Companies phased out in order to make way for TSI engines Auto Insurance Companies � see section below) 2.0 litre turbocharged 4 cylinder 200 Auto Insurance Companies bhp (149 kW; 203 PS) 3.0 litre supercharged v6 300 Auto Insurance Companies bhp (224 kW; 304 PS) - 333 bhp (248 kW; Auto Insurance Companies 338 PS) 3.1 litre V6 265 bhp (198 kW; 269 Auto Insurance Companies PS) 4.2 litre V8 350 bhp (261 kW; 355 PS) Auto Insurance Companies 4.2 litre V8 414 bhp (309 kW; 420 PS) 5.2 Auto Insurance Companies litre V10 435 bhp (324 kW; 441 PS) - 450 Auto Insurance Companies bhp (336 kW; 456 PS) 5.2 litre biturbo V10 573 Auto Insurance Companies bhp (427 kW; 581 PS) 6.0 litre W12 331 kW Auto Insurance Companies (450 PS) Other engines on sale and featuring in products Auto Insurance Companies of the Audi brand include 1.6 litre 4 cylinder 102 Auto Insurance Companies bhp (76 kW; 103 PS) 1.9 litre TDI 4 cylinder Auto Insurance Companies 105 bhp (78 kW; 106 PS) 2.0 litre TDI 4 Auto Insurance Companies cylinder 141 bhp (105 kW; 143 PS) 2.0 litre TDI Auto Insurance Companies 4 cylinder 170 bhp (127 kW; 172 PS) 2.7 litre Auto Insurance Companies TDI V6 180 bhp (134 kW; 182 PS) 3.0 litre Auto Insurance Companies TDI V6 233 bhp (174 kW; 236 PS) 4.2 litre Auto Insurance Companies TDI V8 326 bhp (243 kW; 331 PS) 6.0 litre Auto Insurance Companies TDI V12 500 bhp (373 kW; 507 PS) 1,000 N�m Auto Insurance Companies (740 ft�lbf)/1750 rpm (All TDI models are turbodiesels. [edit] Electric Auto Insurance Companies technolog Audi is planning an alliance with the Japanese electronic Auto Insurance Companies giant Sanyo to develop a pilot hybrid electric project for Auto Insurance Companies the Volkswagen Group. The alliance could result in Sanyo batteries Auto Insurance Companies and other electronic components being used in future models of Auto Insurance Companies the Volkswagen group. [17 Hybrid electric vehicles includes Audi A1 Auto Insurance Companies Sportback Concept.[18] Audi A4 TDI Concept E.[19] This section Auto Insurance Companies requires expansion. [edit] LED Daytime Running Light Since the end Auto Insurance Companies of 2006 Audi has started using the latest white LED Auto Insurance Companies daytime running light (DRL) technology as their new trademark for Auto Insurance Companies their new models. The style was first introduced in the Auto Insurance Companies R8, and is now being orientated to suit the whole Auto Insurance Companies Audi model range. As of 2009, LED DRLs are available Auto Insurance Companies throughout the current Audi model range [edit] Multi Media Interface Auto Insurance Companies (MMI Audi has recently started offering a computerised control system Auto Insurance Companies for its cars called Multi Media Interface (MMI). This comes Auto Insurance Companies amid criticism of BMW's iDrive control, essentially a rotating control Auto Insurance Companies knob designed to control radio, satellite navigation, TV, heating and Auto Insurance Companies car controls with a screen. MMI was widely reported to Auto Insurance Companies be a considerable improvement on BMW's iDrive, although BMW has Auto Insurance Companies since made their iDrive more user-friendly MMI has been generally Auto Insurance Companies well-received, as it requires less menu-surfing with its mass of Auto Insurance Companies buttons around a central knob, with shortcuts to the radio Auto Insurance Companies or phone functions. The screen, either colour or monochrome, is Auto Insurance Companies mounted on the upright dashboard, and on the A4 (new), Auto Insurance Companies A5, A6, A8, and Q7, the controls are mounted horizontally. Auto Insurance Companies However, an "MMI-like" system is also available on the Audi Auto Insurance Companies A3 and A4 models when equipped with the optional Audi Auto Insurance Companies Navigation System Plus (RNS-E) [edit] Motorsport This section does Auto Insurance Companies not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this Auto Insurance Companies article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may Auto Insurance Companies be challenged and removed. (June 2008) Audi has competed in Auto Insurance Companies numerous forms of motorsports. Audi's rich tradition in motorsport began Auto Insurance Companies with their former company Auto Union in the 1930s. In Auto Insurance Companies the 1990s, Audi dominated the Touring and Super Touring categories Auto Insurance Companies of motor racing after success in circuit racing in North Auto Insurance Companies America [edit] Rallyin Walter Rohrl with his Quattro A2 Auto Insurance Companies during the 1984 Rally Portugal.In 1980, Audi released the Quattro, Auto Insurance Companies a four-wheel drive turbocharged car that went on to win Auto Insurance Companies rallies and races worldwide. It is considered one of the Auto Insurance Companies most significant rally cars of all time because it was Auto Insurance Companies one of the first to take advantage of the then-recently Auto Insurance Companies changed rules which allowed the use of four-wheel drive in Auto Insurance Companies competition racing. Many critics doubted the viability of four-wheel drive Auto Insurance Companies racers, thinking them to be too heavy and complex, yet Auto Insurance Companies the Quattro was to become a successful car. Leading its Auto Insurance Companies first rally it went off the road, however the rally Auto Insurance Companies world had been served notice 4WD was the future. The Auto Insurance Companies Quattro went on to achieve much success in the World Auto Insurance Companies Rally Championship. It won the 1983 (Hannu Mikkola) and the Auto Insurance Companies 1984 (Stig Blomqvist) drivers' titles,[20] and brought Audi the manufacturers' Auto Insurance Companies title in 1982 and 1984.[21 Audi Quattro S1 driven Auto Insurance Companies at the 2007 Rallye Deutschland.In 1984, Audi launched the short-wheelbase Auto Insurance Companies Sport Quattro which dominated races in Monte Carlo and Sweden, Auto Insurance Companies with Audi taking all podium places, but succumbed to problems Auto Insurance Companies further into WRC contention. In 1985, after another season mired Auto Insurance Companies in mediocre finishes, Walter Rohrl finished the season in his Auto Insurance Companies Sport Quattro S1, and helped place Audi second in the Auto Insurance Companies manufacturers' points. Audi also received rally honors in the Hong Auto Insurance Companies Kong to Beijing rally in that same year. Michele Mouton, Auto Insurance Companies the first and only female driver to win a round Auto Insurance Companies of the World Rally Championship and a driver for Audi, Auto Insurance Companies took the Sport Quattro S1, now simply called the "S1", Auto Insurance Companies and raced in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. The Auto Insurance Companies climb race pits a driver and car to drive up Auto Insurance Companies a 4,302 meter high mountain in Colorado and in 1985, Auto Insurance Companies Michele Mouton set a new record of 11:25.39, and being Auto Insurance Companies the first woman to set a Pikes Peak record. In Auto Insurance Companies 1986, Audi formally left international rally racing following an accident Auto Insurance Companies in Portugal involving driver Joaquim Santos in his Ford RS200. Auto Insurance Companies Santos swerved to avoid hitting spectators in the road, and Auto Insurance Companies left the track into the crowd of spectators on the Auto Insurance Companies side, killing three and injuring 30. Bobby Unser used an Auto Insurance Companies Audi in that same year to claim a new record Auto Insurance Companies for the Pikes Peak Hill Climb at 11:09.22 Audi In 1987, Auto Insurance Companies Walter Rohrl claimed the title for Audi setting a new Auto Insurance Companies Pikes Peak International Hill Climb record of 10:47.85 in his Auto Insurance Companies Audi S1 which he retired from the WRC two years Auto Insurance Companies earlier. The Audi S1 employed Audi's time-tested 5-cylinder turbo charged Auto Insurance Companies engine, with the final version generating 441 kW (600 PS; Auto Insurance Companies 591 bhp).[22] The engine was mated to a 6-speed gearbox Auto Insurance Companies and ran on Audi's famous all-wheel drive system. All of Auto Insurance Companies Audi's top drivers drove this car; Hannu Mikkola, Stig Blomqvist, Auto Insurance Companies Walter Rohrl and Michele Mouton. This Audi S1 started the Auto Insurance Companies S-series of cars for Audi which now represents an increased Auto Insurance Companies level of sports options and quality in the Audi line-up Auto Insurance Companies [edit] Motorsports in the US As Audi moved away from Auto Insurance Companies rallying and into circuit racing, they chose to move first Auto Insurance Companies into America with the Trans-Am in 1988 In 1989, Audi Auto Insurance Companies moved to IMSA GTO with the Audi 90, however as Auto Insurance Companies they avoided the two major endurance events (Daytona and Sebring) Auto Insurance Companies despite winning on a regular basis, they would lose out Auto Insurance Companies on the title [edit] Touring car In 1990, having completed Auto Insurance Companies their objective to market cars in the United States, Audi Auto Insurance Companies returned to Europe, turning first to the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft Auto Insurance Companies (DTM) series with the Audi V8, then in 1993, being Auto Insurance Companies unwilling to build cars for the new formula, they turned Auto Insurance Companies their attention to the fast growing Supertouring series, which took Auto Insurance Companies place nationally, first in the French Supertourisme and Italian Superturismo. Auto Insurance Companies In the following year, Audi would switch to the German Auto Insurance Companies Super Tourenwagen (known as STW) and then to British Touring Auto Insurance Companies Car Championship (BTCC) the year after that The Federation Internationale Auto Insurance Companies de l'Automobile (FIA), having difficulty regulating the quattro four wheel Auto Insurance Companies drive system, and the impact it had on the competitors, Auto Insurance Companies would eventually ban all four wheel drive cars from competing Auto Insurance Companies in 1998, by then Audi switched all their works efforts Auto Insurance Companies to sports car racing By 2000, Audi would still compete Auto Insurance Companies in the US with their RS4 for the SCCA Speed Auto Insurance Companies World GT Challenge, through dealer/team Champion Racing competing against Corvettes, Auto Insurance Companies Vipers, and smaller BMWs (where it is one of the Auto Insurance Companies few series to permit 4WD cars). In 2003, Champion Racing Auto Insurance Companies entered an RS6. Once again, the quattro four wheel drive Auto Insurance Companies was superior and Champion Audi won the championship. They returned Auto Insurance Companies in 2004 to defend their title but a newcomer, Cadillac Auto Insurance Companies with the new Omega Chassis CTS-V, gave them a run Auto Insurance Companies for their money. After four victories in a row, the Auto Insurance Companies Audis were sanctioned with several negative changes that deeply affected Auto Insurance Companies the car's performance. Namely, added ballasts and Champion Audi deciding Auto Insurance Companies to go with different tires and backing off the turbos Auto Insurance Companies boost pressure In 2004, after years of competing with the Auto Insurance Companies TT-R in the revitalized DTM series, with privateer team Abt Auto Insurance Companies Racing/Christian Abt taking the 2002 title with Laurent Aiello, Audi Auto Insurance Companies returned as a full factory effort to touring car racing Auto Insurance Companies by entering two factory supported Joest Racing Audi A4s [edit] Auto Insurance Companies Sports Car racin Audi R10 TDIBeginning in 1999, Audi Auto Insurance Companies built the Audi R8R (open-top prototype) and the Audi R8C Auto Insurance Companies (GT-Prototype) to compete in sports car racing, including the Le Auto Insurance Companies Mans Prototype LMP900 class at the 24 Hours of Le Auto Insurance Companies Mans. For the 2000 season, Audi focussed mainly on the Auto Insurance Companies new Audi R8, due to favorable rules for open-top prototypes. Auto Insurance Companies The factory-supported Joest Racing team won at Le Mans three Auto Insurance Companies times in a row with the Audi R8 (2000 � Auto Insurance Companies 2002), as well as winning every race in the American Auto Insurance Companies Le Mans Series in its first year. Audi also sold Auto Insurance Companies the car to customer teams such as Champion Racing In Auto Insurance Companies 2003, two Bentley Speed 8s, with engines designed by Audi, Auto Insurance Companies and driven by Joest drivers loaned to the fellow Volkswagen Auto Insurance Companies Group company, competed in the GTP class, and finished the Auto Insurance Companies race in the top two positions, while the Champion Racing Auto Insurance Companies R8 finished third overall and first in the LMP900 class. Auto Insurance Companies Audi returned to the winner's circle at the 2004 race, Auto Insurance Companies with the top three finishers all driving R8s: Audi Sport Auto Insurance Companies Japan Team Goh finished first, Audi Sport UK Veloqx second, Auto Insurance Companies and Champion Racing third At the 2005 24 Hours of Auto Insurance Companies Le Mans, Champion Racing entered two R8s along with an Auto Insurance Companies R8 from the Audi PlayStation Team Oreca. The R8s (which Auto Insurance Companies were built to old LMP900 regulations) received a narrower air Auto Insurance Companies inlet restrictor, reducing power, and an additional 50 kg (110 Auto Insurance Companies lb) of weight compared to the newer LMP1 chassis. On Auto Insurance Companies average, the R8s were about 2�3 seconds off pace compared Auto Insurance Companies to the Pescarolo-Judd. But with a team of excellent drivers Auto Insurance Companies and experience, both Champion R8s were able to take first Auto Insurance Companies and third while the ORECA team took fourth. The Champion Auto Insurance Companies team was also the first American team to win Le Auto Insurance Companies Mans since the Gulf Ford GT's in 1967. This also Auto Insurance Companies ends the long era of the R8; however, its replacement Auto Insurance Companies for 2006, called the Audi R10 TDI, was unveiled on Auto Insurance Companies 13 December 2005 The R10 TDI employs many new features, Auto Insurance Companies including a twin-turbocharged diesel engine. Its first race was the Auto Insurance Companies 2006 12 Hours of Sebring as a race-test for the Auto Insurance Companies 2006 24 Hours of Le Mans, which it later went Auto Insurance Companies on to win. Audi has been on the forefront of Auto Insurance Companies sports car racing, claiming a historic win in the first Auto Insurance Companies ever diesel sports car at 12 Hours of Sebring. As Auto Insurance Companies well as winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in Auto Insurance Companies 2006 making history, the R10 TDI has also shown its Auto Insurance Companies capabilities by beating the Peugeot 908 HDi FAP in 2007, Auto Insurance Companies and beating Peugeot again in 2008 [edit] Sponsorship Audi Medcup: Auto Insurance Companies sailing regatta located in Spain, France, Italy, and Portugal. Audi Auto Insurance Companies Sydney Harbour Regatta. Audi Hamilton Island Race. [edit] See als Auto Insurance Companies Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Audi Wikimedia Auto Insurance Companies Commons has media related to: Audi Audi Driving Experience Auto Insurance Companies Audi Centre of Excellence quattro GmbH Audi Channel Volkswagen list Auto Insurance Companies of German cars [edit] Cultural reference In the 1998 Ronin Auto Insurance Companies (film) The professional driver requests an Audi S8 as the Auto Insurance Companies Getaway car. In in the 2004 Layer Cake (film) a Auto Insurance Companies 2003 Audi RS6 Avant (wagon) is used by the primary Auto Insurance Companies characters throughout the film. On August 22 2004 a Black Auto Insurance Companies Audi A6/S6 wagon was used as the getaway car for Auto Insurance Companies the Munch Museum heist where both the Scream and the Auto Insurance Companies Madonna paintings were stolen. 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