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9ff

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Audi

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What we compare	9ff	Audi
Country in archive	Germany	Germany
Founded	2001	July 16, 1909
Founder	Jan Fatthauer	August Horch
Headquarters	Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany	Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany
Name origin	Wikipedia does not explain where the name 9ff comes from. It does record that the company was founded by Jan Fatthauer and that it specializes in Porsche conversions. The 9 may allude to the Porsche 911 line, but that is an assumption and not a documented fact.	The name is the Latin translation of founder August Horch's surname. Horch means "listen" in German and audi is the singular imperative of the Latin audire. After a court ruled that August Horch could no longer use his own name for his second company, the name was proposed by the son of a business friend in 1909, and the firm was entered in the register as Audi in 1910.
Selected models	GT9, Speed9, GTurbo	Audi Front, Auto Union Type C, Quattro, A4, TT, R8
Earliest archived brand logo	2001	1909
Latest archived logo	2021	2016
Archived logo assets	2	12

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