Audi is one of the oldest automobile manufacturers in Germany. Starting from 1932, Audi began to adopt the four-ring logo, symbolizing the automobile alliance company that Audi merged with DKW, Hodge and Rover. In 1930s, automobile alliance companies covered all the passenger car fields provided by German automobile industry, from motorcycles to luxury cars.

The predecessor of Audi: august horch of Horsey Company, an automobile alliance.

Horch) is one of the pioneers of German automobile industry and the founder of Audi. Hoshi graduated from a technical college in Mitveda, Saxony. He first worked in the karl benz engine manufacturing department in Mannheim, and later became the general manager of the automobile manufacturing department. 1899, Horsey decided to set up his own company, and set up Holsey Company in Cologne (horch

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Cie). In Germany, Hoshi was the first person to apply the cast aluminum technology to the manufacture of automobile engines and gearbox housings, as well as the manufacture of cardan shafts and high-strength steel gears for power transmission parts. 1902, Holsey moved the company to Reichenbach, Saxony.

1903, the company began to produce two-cylinder engine cars. Then move to Zwickau at 1904. After moving to Zwickau, the company began to produce four-cylinder engine cars. This kind of car has good performance,

1906, won the championship in the world's most difficult and longest distance Heckmer race. Two years later, the annual sales of Horsey Company exceeded 65,438+000 vehicles for the first time.