[W126 Coupe] Mercedes On-the Road with problems

[Gerry Van Zandt]

Audi ("Auto Union") was the combination of four different marques:

DKW, Horch, Wanderer, and Audi.  The four rings of the Audi logo  
represent each marque.

Here are just a couple of the photos I have from my visit last year  
to the brand-new Audi Museum in Zwickau, Germany. This was the  
traditional home of Audi until the Communists took over East Germany  
at the end of the war, and Audi was moved to Ingolstadt in Bavaria.  
The Communists produced the Trabant there until 1991.  Since then, VW  
has done some Passat manufacturing on the site.  It's quite an  
extensive old complex of brick factory buildings, straight out of the  
early 20th Century.

This is one of the best car museums I've ever been to.  I heartily  
recommend this museum.  A friendly, elderly east German curator  
befriended me when I was there, and let me get in a couple of the  
cars and took my photograph with them.  He didn't speak a single word  
of English, so all communication was in German (I'm fairly fluent).   
The local accent there in the area was amusing.

Enjoy!

Cheers,
Gerry

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7757/103/1600/IMG_5322.jpg
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7757/103/1600/IMG_5320.jpg
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7757/103/1600/IMG_5319.jpg
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7757/103/1600/IMG_5306.jpg




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> If I am right, the Audi was the child from the married couple DKW  

> and NSU.

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