Audi is a brand owned by Volkswagen.

Audi is a luxury car brand owned by Audi Motor Company, a subsidiary of the German Volkswagen Group. As a representative of high technology, quality standards, innovation capabilities, and classic car styles, Audi is the world's most successful brand. One of the car brands. The company is headquartered in Ingolstadt, Germany, and has branches in many countries including China.

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Brand introduction

Audi is a famous automobile developer and manufacturer, and its logo is four interlocking rings. It is now a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG, headquartered in Ingolstadt, Germany. Its main models include A1, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, Q1, Q2,?[2]?Q3, Q5, Q7, Q8?[3-4]?, TT, R8 and S, RS performance series, etc.

The Audi Group includes the parent company and its subsidiaries Audi Hungary, quattro GmbH, as well as Automobili Lamborghini and Cosworth Technologies, Audi Brasil and Audi Senalita. In addition, Audi also has production plants in China, Malaysia and South Africa.

Audi is one of Germany's oldest car manufacturers. From 1932, Audi began to use the four-ring logo, which symbolizes the Auto Union company formed by the merger of Audi, DKW, Horch and Wanderer. In the 1930s, Auto Union covered all passenger car segments the German automotive industry had to offer, from motorcycles to luxury cars.

Audi was selected into the "China's No. 1 Brand in Buyer Satisfaction" compiled by the World Brand Value Laboratory in 2008, ranking seventh.

The logo of Audi cars is four rings, representing the four companies before the merger. These companies were once manufacturers of bicycles, motorcycles and passenger cars. Since the company was originally formed by the merger of four companies, each ring is a symbol of one of the companies.

The German Audi company's history of manufacturing cars and motorcycles can be traced back to the 19th century. The four car companies originally located in Saxony - Audi and Horch in Zwickau, Wanderer in Chemnitz-siegmar (wanderer) and the dkw automobile company in zschopau made outstanding contributions to the progress of the German automobile industry at that time.

These four automobile companies merged into Auto Union AG (hereinafter referred to as Auto Union) in 1933. In terms of automobile production, Auto Union was the second largest automobile manufacturing company in Germany at the time. The product logo was four connected rings, representing the four automobile companies participating in the merger. The four-ring symbol appeared for the first time in the world.

After World War II, Auto Union's automobile manufacturing plant in Saxony was confiscated and demolished by the former Soviet occupation forces. After that, many of the company's senior staff went to Bavaria and established Auto Union GmbH in Ingolstadt in 1949. It inherited the tradition of the old Auto Union and still has four A chain as a symbol.

Auto Union AG and NSU GmbH merged in 1969 to form Audi NSU Auto Union AG; in 1985, the company was renamed Audi Joint Stock Company (Audi AG), its headquarters moved to Ingolstadt, and the four-ring logo is still in use today.

It can be seen that the history of Audi was divided into two parts by World War II. The first part is about Auto Union before World War II, and the second part is about the development of Audi after World War II.

Reference: Audi (a luxury car brand under the German Volkswagen Group)_Baidu Encyclopedia