Audi's history of manufacturing cars and motorcycles in Germany can be traced back to19th century. The four automobile companies originally located in Saxony-Audi in Zwickau and Horc, Rover in chemnitz-Siegmar and dkw in zschopau made outstanding contributions to the progress of German automobile industry at that time. The four car companies merged into auto union ag on 1932. In terms of automobile output, the automobile alliance was the second largest automobile manufacturing company in Germany at that time, and its product logo was four connected rings, representing the four automobile companies involved in the merger. The four-ring symbol appeared for the first time in the world.