2007-12-18 07:43:49 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Makes ➔ Audi
Auto Union Deutschland Ingolstadt
2007-12-18 07:46:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
The origins of Audi
The company traces its origins back to 1899 and August Horch. The first Horch automobile was produced in 1901 in Zwickau. In 1909, Horch was forced out of the company he had founded. He then started a new company in Zwickau and continued using the Horch brand. His former partners sued him for trademark infringement and a German court determined that the Horch brand belonged to his former company. August Horch was forced to refrain from using his own family name in his new car business. Horch immediately called a meeting at the apartment of Franz Fikentscher to come up with a new name for his company. During this meeting Franz's son was quietly studying Latin in a corner of the room. Several times he looked like he was on the verge of saying something but would just swallow his words and continue working, until he finally blurted out, "Father - audiatur et altera pars... wouldn't it be a good idea to call it AUDI instead of HORCH?". "Horch!" in German means "Hark!" or "listen", which is "Audi" in Latin. The idea was enthusiastically accepted by everyone attending the meeting. [1] It is also popularly (but incorrectly) believed that Audi is an acronym which stands for "Auto Union Deutschland Ingolstadt".
2007-12-19 15:20:57 · answer #2 · answered by spammer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In 1909 August Horch had a dispute with the supervisory board of A. Horch & Cie. Motorwagen-Werke AG and as a result, left the company he had begun. Shortly after, on July 16, 1909, he established a second company, Horch Automobil-Werke GmbH, in the same city. Horch lost the ensuing legal dispute over the company name. His solution was to use the Latin translation of his name (which means "hark!"). The new company name, Audiwerke GmbH, became effective on April 25, 1910.
2007-12-21 11:49:22 · answer #3 · answered by TreeLimb 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Auto Union Deutschland Ingolstadt
2007-12-18 07:46:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Audi is a latin translation of the German name "Horch".
The Audi name preceeds Auto-Union by over a decade - indeed Audi was one of the four companies that merged to form Auto-Union.
The modern Audi badge is actually the Auto-Union badge, with the four rings representing the four companies that merged to form Auto-Union in the 1930s.
2007-12-18 22:45:31 · answer #5 · answered by Neil 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I believe August Horch parted from the company he had founded in 1909 and being barred from using the name Horch he called his new company Audi which is a latinised form of the same name.
2007-12-18 09:20:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
August Horch took the literal translation of his last name Horch which in German means "hark" or "listen" and used the Latin form of this word "Audi" to name his automobile company.
Audi is quite literally the latin word for listen.
2007-12-18 15:14:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
the above answer is crap about horch. the four rings in the audi symbol, is to mark the four rings each company gave each oher when audi was established "the four engagment rings" thats why theyre interlocked, cant mmber the companys completely but vw and bugatti were two of them
2007-12-18 12:12:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
All Unknown Damages Incur?.
2007-12-19 12:29:27 · answer #9 · answered by harry-balsacs 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Eds got it right !!!
But Lisa T deserves the points cause thats so Freaking funny !!!
2007-12-18 07:52:38 · answer #10 · answered by Crusha03 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋