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Anniversary dates 2018 Audi Tradition Audi Tradition 2 Anniversary dates 2018 Content Anniversaries in our corporate history January 1938 May 1963 80 years – In memory of Bernd Rosemeyer ..............5 55 years – End of NSU bicycle production ..............14 February 1928 July 1958 90 years – NSU 6/30 hp .........................................6 45 years – End of production of the Prinz 4 ...........15 February 1968 July 1958 50 years – Italdesign .............................................7 60 years – Groundbreaking for a new plant in Ingolstadt .....................................16 February 1993 25 years – Establishment of Audi Hungaria August 1928 Motor Kft. ............................................................8 90 years – NSU 7/34 ............................................17 March 1928 August 1938 90 years – First DKW car ........................................9 80 years – Crash tests at the Central Testing Unit of the Auto Union .........................................18 March 1958 60 years – NSU Prinz ............................................10 August 1978 40 years – Audi 80 B2 ..........................................19 March 1983 35 years – Audi 100 Avant (C3) .............................11 August 1998 20 years – Audi TT Coupé .....................................20 April 1958 60 years – Takeover of Auto Union GmbH September 1953 by Daimler Benz AG .............................................12 65 years – Three-cylinder DKW F 91 ......................21 May 1933 September 1963 85 years – Audi Front ...........................................13 55 years – End of production of Auto Union 1000 ...22 Audi Tradition 3 Anniversary dates 2018 Content New models at the IAA in Frankfurt September 1963 September 1963 55 years – NSU/ Wankel Spider .............................23 55 years – DKW F 12 and DKW F 12 Roadster ........25 September 1963 September 1963 55 years – NSU Prinz 1000 ...................................24 55 years – DKW F 102 ..........................................27 Continuation Anniversaries in our corporate history September 1983 October 1953 35 years – Audi 200 C3 ........................................28 65 years – NSU Quickly ........................................34 September 1983 October 1958 35 years – Audi Sport quattro ...............................29 60 years – End of motorcycle production in Ingolstadt .......................................................35 September 1988 30 years – Audi Coupé B3 .....................................31 October 1978 40 years – Audi five-cylinder diesel engine ............36 September 1993 25 years – Audi ASF .............................................32 October 1988 30 years – Audi V8 ...............................................37 October 1868 150 years – August Horch – born on October 1933 October 12, 1868 ................................................33 85 years – First Horch V8 .....................................38 Audi Tradition 4 Anniversary dates 2018 November 1968 Dezember 1968 50 years – Audi 100 .............................................39 50 years – Final DKW built ...................................42 November 1978 40 years – VW Iltis – an off-road vehicle from Ingolstadt ..................................................41 Content Motorsports 1938 1983 80 years – The successes of Ewald Kluge 35 years – Hannu Mikkola: with DKW ...........................................................43 Rally world champion driver .................................47 1938 1988 80 years – DKW racing victories ............................44 30 years – Audi 200 TransAm ...............................48 1938 1993 80 years – Auto Union Grand Prix type D racing car ...45 25 years – Audi 80 quattro 2.5 DTM prototype ......49 1978 1993 40 years – Audi Sport ...........................................46 25 years – Entrance of the 2-liter STW ..................50 Audi Tradition 5 Anniversary dates 2018 In memory of 80 Bernd Rosemeyer On January 28, 1938, record drives took place along vehicle was 456 km/h (283.3 mph). the Frankfurt-Darmstadt Reichsautobahn, with Daimler- years Benz and the Auto Union participating. By October During the record attempt, the Bernd Rosemeyer's 1937, Bernd Rosemeyer (1909-1938), star driver from car was caught by a gust of wind while traveling at a the Auto Union, had already set several world records speed of nearly 440 km/h (273.4 mph) near Langen- along this route and for the first time had broken the Mörfelden. The car swerved off the road and rolled 400 km/h limit (248.5 mph). The theoretical maxi- over several times. Rosemeyer was thrown from the mum speed of the 545 hp, fully paneled 1938 record vehicle and died on the spot. Audi Tradition 6 Anniversary dates 2018 NSU 6/30 hp 90 February 1928 – The automotive expositions in Amster- four-seat convertible, were available at prices ranging dam and Copenhagen of winter 1928 witnessed the from 5,500 to 7,000 Reichsmarks. Despite the advance premiere of the latest NSU model, the 6/30 hp. praise, sales of the small 6-cylinder engined car were sluggish, due to growing pains with the engine. Not years The smallest German six-cylinder car drew 30 hp of even 1,000 6/30 models were manufactured before power from its nearly 1,600 ccm displacement. A lar- production was discontinued in favor of the successor ge variety of body designs, from the chassis to the model, the 7/34. Audi Tradition 7 Anniversary dates 2018 Italdesign 50 On February 13, 1968, the Giugiaro and Mantovani Italdesign began as a consultancy firm with innovative families together founded “Studi Italiani Realizza- ideas for the automotive industry. Its guiding principles zione Prototipi S.p.A.,” later known as Italdesign. have hardly changed over the last 50 years: Italdesign is a company offering other companies throughout years On May 25, 2010, Volkswagen took over 90.1% the world creative services, developing prototypes of the shares in Italdesign via the Audi subsidiary in support of production and providing all necessary Lamborghini; in June 2015 Audi also acquired the services for the industrialization of new products. remaining shares owned by the Giugiaro family. Audi Tradition 8 Anniversary dates 2018 Establishment of 25 Audi Hungaria Motor Kft. February 1993 – Audi Hungaria was established in 1993 For years, Audi Hungaria has been one of Hungary's as a 100%-owned Audi subsidiary and has developed companies with the largest volume of sales and lar- years into the world's largest engine plant as well as one gest number of exports. Around 12,000 people are of the most attractive employers in Hungary. The employed at the Győr site. company develops and produces engines for AUDI AG and for other members of the Volkswagen Group in the Hungarian town of Győr. To date the plant has turned out over 30 million engines. In 2018 the plant will start production of electric motors. In 1998 Audi Hungaria began its automotive produc- tion. Since 2013, Győr has been turning out the Audi A3 Sedan and the A3 Convertible at full production capacity. Just one year later, volume production of the third generations of the Audi TT Coupé and TT Roadster began at the Hungarian site. Production of the premium compact SUV Audi Q3 will commence in Győr in 2018. To date Győr has turned out over a million cars. Audi Tradition 9 Anniversary dates 2018 First DKW car 90 March 1928 – Jörgen Skafte Rasmussen, founder of water-cooled version (500 ccm, 15 hp) drove the first the Zschopauer Motorenwerke, had been toying with DKW car. Rudolf Slaby, head of the DKW plant in Berlin, the idea of manufacturing cars since the First World developed this conventional rear-wheel drive model. War. But first Zschopau concentrated on motorcycle The overall body was unitary in wood and covered by years construction – with great success. colored artificial leather. The DKW car made its debut under the designation “P 15” at the spring trade fair The first DKW two-cylinder motorcycle made a com- in Leipzig in March 1928, and quickly found an enthu- paratively powerful two-stroke engine available whose siastic clientèle. Audi Tradition 10 Anniversary dates 2018 NSU Prinz 60 March 1958 – In the mid-1950s, NSU was the world’s largest two-wheel vehicle factory. In 1958, the com- pany once more began turning out cars in the form of the Prinz, following an interruption of nearly thirty years years. While not a luxury model of impressive beauty, the NSU Prinz cut a bold and sporty figure in the com- pact car market that in those years was populating the roads. Volume production began on March 11, 1958. The compact NSU came in two vehicle types: Prinz I as the “standard” version and Prinz II as the “luxury” version. Audi Tradition 11 Anniversary dates 2018 Audi 100 Avant (C3) 35 In March 1983, Audi presented the station wagon and universal applicability. With a drag coefficient variant of the Audi 100 (C3). While dispensing with of 0.34, the Audi 100 Avant followed close on the the predecessor model's hatchback, the designers heels of the Cd world champion sedan, and in its day could not bring themselves to introduce a fastback. was the most aerodynamic station wagon worldwide. years By 1991, 110,375 Audi 100 C3 Avant units of all The 100 C3 Avant designated by Audi as a “sedan engine versions with front or four-wheel drive had station wagon” fell stylistically between these two been built. variants and boasted a giant luggage compartment Audi Tradition 12 Anniversary dates 2018 Takeover of Auto Union GmbH 60 by Daimler Benz AG April 1958 – At