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Audi AG is often a German automobile manufacturer that designs, engineers, produces, markets and distributes luxury vehicles. Audi is usually a member with the Volkswagen Group and contains its roots at Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany. Audi-branded vehicles are made in nine production facilities worldwide.The origins on the company are complex, finding comfort the early last century and the initial enterprises (Horch along with the Audiwerke) founded by engineer August Horch; as well as other manufacturers (DKW and Wanderer), producing the foundation of Auto Union in 1932. The modern era of Audi essentially began within the 1960s when Auto Union was acquired by Volkswagen from Daimler-Benz. After relaunching the Audi brand together with the 1965 introduction with the Audi F103 series, Volkswagen merged Auto Union with NSU Motorenwerke in 1969, thus creating today form on the company.The company name is dependant on the Latin translation on the surname from the founder, August Horch. "Horch", meaning "listen" in German, becomes "audi" in Latin. The four rings from the Audi logo each represent certainly one of four car businesses that banded together to build Audi's predecessor company, Auto Union. Audi's slogan is Vorsprung durch Technik, meaning "Being Ahead through Technology". However, Audi USA had used the slogan "Truth in Engineering" from 2007 to 2016, and also have not used the slogan since 2016. Audi, as well as BMW and Mercedes-Benz, is one of the best-selling luxury automobile brands from the world.Audi introduced a fresh series of vehicles inside the mid-1990s and is constantly pursue new technology and high performance. An all-aluminium car was brought forward by Audi, plus in 1994 the Audi A8 was released, which introduced aluminium space frame technology (called Audi Space Frame or ASF) which saves weight and improves torsion rigidity over a conventional steel frame. Prior to that effort, Audi used examples in the Type 44 chassis fabricated beyond aluminium as test-beds with the technique. The disadvantage with the aluminium frame is that it can be quite expensive to repair and requirements a specialized aluminium bodyshop. The weight reduction is nearly offset through the quattro four-wheel drive system that's standard generally in most markets. Nonetheless, the A8 is truly the lightest all-wheel drive car inside full-size luxury segment, also having best-in-class fuel economy. The Audi A2, Audi TT and Audi R8 also employ Audi Space Frame designs.