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30 unusual facts about Audi


Alpine Rockfest

The race format is a Sprint Giant Slalom complete with a jump over an Audi; competitors race through elimination rounds in pursuit of the largest single cash prize in Ski Racing—€70,000.

Auburn Hills, Michigan

Auburn Hills is home to the North American headquarters of Faurecia, Volkswagen/Audi North American Headquarters, Oakland University, BorgWarner, Guardian Industries, RGIS, Great Lakes Crossing shopping mall, as well as The Palace of Auburn Hills, home of the National Basketball Association's Detroit Pistons and the former home of Women's National Basketball Association's Detroit Shock.

Audi Tunnel

It lies just outside Ingolstadt Nord station and passes under part of the Audi car factory site (hence the name) as well as other industrial and residential areas.

Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin

The BHT maintains a co-operative programme featuring national companies such as the Deutsche Bahn, Burger King, the Berlin promotion agency and Audi.

Carcannon

Carcannon sells its services to Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Audi, Nissan, Infiniti, Acura, Honda, and the Council of Better Business Bureaus.

Cribbs Causeway

The Cribbs Causeway area has become the home to many car dealerships in recent years these include, Audi, BMW, Ford, Honda, Mercedes-Benz/Smart, Mini, Peugeot and Porsche.

Death of Azelle Rodney

An unmarked police Audi swerved in front of the VW Golf, a Vauxhall Omega halted alongside, and a third vehicle impacted the rear of the VW.

Electronics City

The highway or Hosur Road, also has some buildings of some major IT players like BOSCH, Sasken, Convergys etc., along with showrooms of major auto manufacturers like Volvo, Audi, BMW, Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen etc.

Flying Lizard Motorsports

After competing with Porsches since its inception, the Flying Lizard Motorsports team announced on November 11th, 2013 that it would partner with Audi Sport Customer Racing to campaign a two car Audi R8 LMS effort in the newly formed Tudor United SportsCar Championship GT Daytona Class.

Fulvio Bonavia

Though he has shot ad campaigns for a wide range of international clients, such as Adidas, Heineken, Swatch, Amnesty International, and Alitalia, he is best known for his campaigns for automotive companies including Jaguar, BMW, Saab, Alfa Romeo, Daimler-Chrysler, and Audi.

H.R. Owen

The Group also operates aftersales-only franchises for Audi, BMW, Lotus and MINI.

Hanni El Khatib

Most recently, his song "Can't Win 'Em All" was used for the 2013 Superbowl ad for Audi (Prom: Tradition).

Hochschule Mittweida

August Horch (1868–1951), the father of the German automotive giant Audi, studied at the „Technicum“ from 1888-1891.

Ingolstadt Manching Airport

Ingolstadt Manching also receives frequent charter flights from Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport transferring personnel of the Volkswagen Group between their headquarters in Wolfsburg and their subsidiary Audi in Ingolstadt.

Irish Aluminium Company

It produces components from some of Europe's best-known car manufacturers, including Audi, BMW, Ford, Seat, Volkswagen, Volvo and Jaguar.

Little Stanney

The Blue Planet Aquarium, The Coliseum Retail Park, Vue Cinema, bowling alley, two nightclubs, Cheshire Oaks Business Park, a David Lloyd Leisure club and respectively Porsche, Audi and Lexus dealerships have all grown up around the outlet and are situated to the north and east of the village.

Markus Wormstorm

Markus’s works have provided the soundtrack for ad campaigns for the likes of MetroFM (South Africa's biggest urban music radio station), VR Brandy, Audi, Ford, B.O.E., South African Design Indaba, Nokia and local mobile network CellC.

Meadowhead School

The site where the "North Building" once stood – alongside Bochum Parkway – became a Gilders Volkswagen and Audi showroom and the area where the "South Building" was – further along Dyche Lane – became the new school's playing fields.

MIT Senseable City Lab

Among the Lab's partners are a group of corporations, including AT&T, General Electric, Audi, ENEL, SNCF as well as cities such as Copenhagen, London, Singapore, Seattle, and Florence.

Moon Dae-Sung

He has become the official Audi Automobile Company's spokesman and has made numerous television and public appearances.

Mutual Mobile

The company has built over 200 applications for clients such as Audi, Google, and Cisco.

New York Yankees Radio Network

One play is determined to be the best defensive play of the game, sponsored in 2012 by a local New York credit union, and the "Drive of the Game", a particular hit (usually a home run) that resulted in several runs being driven in sponsored in 2012 by New York-area Audi dealers.

Port of Houston

Most Volkswagen (and Audi) automobiles sold in North America pass through the port of Houston.

Progress and Perfection

It was not released on a label, and was distributed by Audi officials on special events.

Renntech

More recently, however, Renntech has begun to offer products for other marques as well - specifically product for Porsche, Volkswagen, and Audi vehicles.

São José dos Pinhais

It is the third pole of Brazil automotive, housing automakers Volkswagen, Audi, Nissan and Renault.

Tony Angelo

Tony Angelo also does stunt work, having driven in ads for Audi, Nissan and Chevrolet.

Tony Vaughan

Vaughan resided in Nottingham after his career came to an end, but now works for Audi in the company's sale room in Lincoln.

Truth in 24

Truth in 24 is a 2008 documentary film directed by Keith Cossrow and Bennett Visltear detailing Audi's preparation for the 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Ulrich Baretzky

Ulrich Baretzky is "?title=Audi">Audi Sports' Head of Engine Technology, and has been credited with developing the V12 TDI engine, used in the Audi R10 racecar.


Audi 100

The C3-platform Audi 100 was also produced in Changchun, China, by FAW (First Automobile Works, a Chinese automotive manufacturer), for many years during the 1990s.

Audi A4

The Audi A4 offers many standard safety features, including Bosch ESP 8.0 Electronic Stability Programme (ESP) with Anti-lock Braking System (ABS), side airbags in the seats, 'sideguard' curtain airbags, and its optional quattro four-wheel drive system.

Audi Q5

The new vehicle was expected to be built in Audi's home town of Ingolstadt.

Audi RS 2 Avant

Although much of the car's underpinnings were manufactured by Audi, assembly was handled by Porsche at their Rossle-Bau plant in Zuffenhausen, Germany, which had become available after discontinuation of the Mercedes-Benz 500E, which Porsche had manufactured there under contract.

Audi Tunnel

The Audi Tunnel is a twin-tracked railway tunnel on the Nuremberg–Ingolstadt–Munich high-speed railway just north of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Germany.

Audi Type SS

He installed it in a factory he owned just outside Zschopau, near to Audi's own Zwickau plant.

C-segment

Luxury brands such as BMW (1 Series), Audi (A3) and Mercedes (brand-new A-class) are getting more and more popularity in the segment since years, differently from what is happening in other minor segments like A-segment and B-segment.

VW Group dominates the segment with a 35% share, covering the market with its brands VW, Audi, Skoda and Seat.

European Network Exchange

The 15 members of the association, which are all also represented on the so-called ENX board, are Audi, BMW, Bosch, Continental, Daimler, DGA, Ford, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Renault, Volkswagen as well as the automotive associations ANFAC (Spain), GALIA (France), SMMT (UK), OSD (Turkey) and VDA (Germany).

FAW-Volkswagen

With the celebration, a sculpture named 'Ode to Audi' from Gerry Judah was set at the entry of the company.

Głuchołazy

Roland Gumpert (born 1944), former Director of Audi Sport and founder of the Gumpert sports car company

Horch

After Auto Union was purchased in 1964 by the Volkswagenwerk AG, the old brand Audi was introduced again together with the new four stroke vehicle Audi F103.

Hornavanskolan

The school cooperates with various car manufacturers such as BMW, Daimler, Knorr-Bremse, Volkswagen AG (Audi), Bosch, GM, Aston Martin, Lotus Cars, Caterham Cars and MIRA Ltd and can offer students of the BilTeknikSystem (car technology system) program temporary internships at national and international automotive companies.

Jürgen Alzen

Uwe Alzen holds the lap record there at 8:09, about 10 seconds faster than the factory cars of Opel and Audi from the DTM, as well as the BMW M3 V8 GTR of Schnitzer Motorsport.

North Yorkshire Police

The force has a new livery from March 2009, consisting of a single line of battenberg on all vehicles, new vehicles include Ford Focus estates and Ford Transit Connect vans, as well as BMW and Audi road policing units.

Paul Jaray

Jaray designed his own cars starting with the 1923 Ley and followed on with designs for Chrysler, Mercedes-Benz, Maybach, Apollo, Dixi, Audi, Adler, Jawa, Ford, Steyer and others.

Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle

Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle, also known by its sponsorship name of Audi Dome, is an indoor arena in Sendling-Westpark, Munich, Germany.

Truth in 24

Numerous Audi officials and drivers are interviewed through the film, including the eventual winning team of Allan McNish, Dindo Capello, and Tom Kristensen.

Volkswagen Iltis

VW consolidated the former Auto Union marques into a single company, re-using the Audi name to designate vehicles manufactured by the company rather than continuing to manufacture vehicles under the names of the various brands that had made up the original Auto Union.

Volkswagenwerk Braunschweig

Until today, only components for vehicles of VW Group (Audi, Škoda, SEAT und Bugatti) are produced, such as running gears, axles, shock absorbers, brake parts and all pedals.

World Touring Car Championship

The race was run for two more years, (won by Paul Radisich again in 1994 at Donington Park in a Ford Mondeo, manufacturer title went to BMW, and Frank Biela in 1995 at Paul Ricard in an Audi A4 Quattro, and manufacturer title went to Audi).

Wörthersee

The largest Volkswagen and Audi car show in Europe is held in the lakeside town of Reifnitz (usually May) every year since 1981.