Audi Car Manufacturers

The Audi car company was established in eighteen ninety nine by a man named August Horch in Cologne, Germany. Two years was spent in the development of his company’s first vehicle which was finally completed in nineteen zero one. In March nineteen zero two the company had quite a change, moving location and changing into a company which issued shares. Changing again in nineteen zero four with a more firm intent for motoring manufacture, the company name modified to reflect this, now being named A. Horch & Cie. Motorwagen-Werke AG.

In nineteen twenty one, after years of producing motor vehicles had its primary first in the industry, putting it ahead of competitors and gradually beginning to build a name for itself. Audi was the first German car manufacturer to produce a left hand drive model- called the ‘Type K’. Up until this point the cars had always been right hand drive, an evolution from the horse and carriage. The new positioning of the driver gave a much better view of traffic for overtaking etc and was celebrated for being an innovative and useful modification.

In more recent times the company received plaudits during the nineteen eighties for its highly distinctive Audi Quattro range. It was first demonstrated in nineteen eighty at the Geneva Motor show and caused quite a stir. It was the first high performance car to feature four-wheel-drive, something which had only ever been used up until then for off-road vehicles. The system produced an excellent drive and subsequently was exported into the whole of the Audi range.

New Audi cars currently range from a cost of just over thirteen thousand pounds to top range models at over seventy thousand pounds. Audi model ranges are generally quite distinctive and follow a similar naming convention including: A2, A3, A4, A6, TT Coupe, TT Roadster. Car insurance groups range from around five up to twenty.