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top, a 1925 horch 10 50<br />
and below a 1939 horCh<br />
930 V and a 1930 horch 375.<br />
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at the beginning of the 1980s of Ferdinand piech,<br />
grandson of the great Ferdinand porsche, who is<br />
still the Volkswagen group’s number one. the rest<br />
is recent history with the extraordinary commercial<br />
and sporting success of the legendary audi<br />
Quattro - much desired by piech himself - which<br />
proved itself capable of winning a great many victories<br />
in the most prestigious international rallies<br />
of the 1980s and, more recently, the equally winning<br />
r8 which, from its debut in 1999 has been<br />
capable of gaining as many as 61 victories out of<br />
77 international races and even won as many as 5<br />
years running of the celebrated le Mans 24 hours.<br />
this is “the history it takes to make history” and it is<br />
this that is faithfully preserved in the audi tradition<br />
department and at the audi Museum in ingolstadt<br />
and in all the historic forms in which the ‘mobile<br />
museum’ has been involved. a few examples of<br />
what you can see inside? From the first 1929 eight<br />
cylinder audis to the elegant 1932 horch 670 via<br />
the very rare wanderer w 25 k (which regularly<br />
takes part in the Mille Miglia historical re-enactment)<br />
to say nothing of the beautiful dkw Monza<br />
or the auto Union type C which has taken part in<br />
the traditional goodwood festival of speed. and<br />
this because all the vehicles mentioned are totally<br />
driveable and are kept up by the audi tradition<br />
department which, in the recent past, has also<br />
boasted the honour of certain extraordinary restoration<br />
jobs for private clients such as, for example,<br />
those of the unforgettable auto Unions, the stars<br />
of the most prestigious international grand prix<br />
of the 1930s driven by their legendary and highly<br />
sophisticated 12 and 16 cylinder engines. all this is<br />
to tell you that, if you haven’t already been, a trip<br />
to ingolstadt is an absolute must for all car lovers<br />
and not only them and even more so if you have<br />
already found out if there is an exhibition in the<br />
museum when you visit.<br />
www.audi.com<br />
top a 1936 horch 853<br />
and below a 1914<br />
auDi type c.<br />
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