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Latest archived mark · 2016

Audi

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9ff

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What we compare	Audi	9ff
Country in archive	Germany	Germany
Founded	July 16, 1909	2001
Founder	August Horch	Jan Fatthauer
Headquarters	Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany	Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Name origin	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.	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.
Selected models	Audi Front, Auto Union Type C, Quattro, A4, TT, R8	GT9, Speed9, GTurbo
Earliest archived brand logo	1909	2001
Latest archived logo	2016	2021
Archived logo assets	12	2

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