Audi Q8: the tech secrets of Audi\u002639;s new SUV by CAR Magazine

$Audi Q8: the tech secrets of Audi\u002639;s new SUV by CAR Magazine$

Audi AG is really a German automobile manufacturer that designs, engineers, produces, markets and distributes luxury vehicles. Audi can be a member from 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 and also the Audiwerke) founded by engineer August Horch; and a couple of other manufacturers (DKW and Wanderer), bringing about the foundation of Auto Union in 1932. The modern era of Audi essentially began inside 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 from the company.The company name will be based upon the Latin translation from the surname in the founder, August Horch. "Horch", meaning "listen" in German, becomes "audi" in Latin. The four rings with the Audi logo each represent certainly one of four car businesses that banded together to produce 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, together with BMW and Mercedes-Benz, is amongst the best-selling luxury automobile brands within the world.Audi introduced a brand new series of vehicles inside mid-1990s and will continue to pursue new technology and high performance. An all-aluminium car was brought forward by Audi, as well as in 1994 the Audi A8 was already released, which introduced aluminium space frame technology (called Audi Space Frame or ASF) which saves weight and improves torsion rigidity rather than a conventional steel frame. Prior to that effort, Audi used examples on the Type 44 chassis fabricated from aluminium as test-beds for your technique. The disadvantage with the aluminium frame is that it is quite expensive to repair and needs a specialized aluminium bodyshop. The weight reduction is nearly offset from the quattro four-wheel drive system and that is standard in many markets. Nonetheless, the A8 is truly the lightest all-wheel drive car from the 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.