Horch may not have the same reputation enjoyed by the likes of Rolls-Royce, Bentley or Maybach in America, but its pedigree is undeniable. The name adorned luxurious sedans and roadsters prior to the ...

Auto Union saw the potential of the Brazilian car market long before many of its competitors and started building cars locally with local company VEMAG under the DKW brand in 1956. At the time, DKW ...

There's a reason why Audi has a badge with four rings and that's because back in the days when it was called Auto Union, there were four different brands forming this conglomerate: Audi, DKW, Horch ...

DKW was one of the four original brands that eventually formed Audi. In 1956, it made a vehicle called the Schnellaster Kastenwagen, which roughly translates to Rapid Transit Panel Van, a vehicle ...

Audi’s history is a labyrinthine web of acquisitions and mergers. The brands Horch, Audi, DKW, and Wanderer came together to form Auto Union in 1932, which explains the company’s four-ring logo.

The DKW 3=6 used a two-stroke engine to approximate the feel of a four-stroke motor. LOTHAR SPURZEM VIA WIKIPEDIA Current sleek, high-tech Audis have some interesting ancestors, among them the almost ...

The new, third-generation 2016 Audi TT follows in the footsteps of the groundbreaking J Mays-designed concept from 1995. But the genetic chain actually goes back much farther, to the DKW Monza 3=6 ...

The site GermanCarFans.com does the arduous legwork for you and presents Audi’s complicated history in bite-sized chunks. The four rings symbolize four formerly independent auto manufacturers: Audi, ...

Two-stroke engines could become the powerplants of the future. However, Germany’s DKW made the two-stroke a success the first time around. The East German Trabants and Wartburgs as well as the ...

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