AW: [Leica] Bah to Jim Brick and His BMW Fetish! audi and auto un ion

[Michael Dienert <MDienert@foq.de>]

hi marc,

did you know that 'audi' is the latin word for the german imperative
'horch' (in english: listen!) ?
audi was founded by mr. horch who founded the car maker horch  but left
later on. then he founded a new car company but couldn't use the name
'horch' so he choose the latin translation: audi.

and auto union is a merger of Audi, Horch, DKW and Wanderer. so only a
small part of it is audi.
i have several classic cars and motorcycles and i know that there are
bmw flat twins which have reached 400 000 km. ok, with lots of spare
parts of course (the gear box for example needs new bearings every 100
000km).

michael

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:	Marc James Small [SMTP:msmall@roanoke.infi.net]
> Gesendet am:	Mittwoch, 11. August 1999 22:24
> An:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Betreff:	[Leica] Bah to Jim Brick and His BMW Fetish!
> 
> At 05:48 PM 8/11/1999 -0400, Ray Rubey wrote:
> >(Auto Union is now Audi)
> 
> With dread at restarting the Great Rover Thread (and I learned to
> drive on
> a REAL Rover, a 2000TC, back in the Red Dog Saloon era), I am a
> content
> partner with an '84 Audi 4000S yclept Clytemnestra and desire no finer
> car,
> as My Lady answers all my needs and desires.
> 
> Auto Union has ALWAYS been "Audi", and vice-versa.  "Audi" is simply
> the
> German manner of saying the name, and, yes, in the same tone, "Nazi"
> was
> the German manner of saying "National Social Democratic Worker's
> Party"!  
> 
> The Camera Connexion is a simple one:  in 1926, the German gummit
> determined to save ailing industries by compelling them to merge.
> Four car
> companies were thus merged into Auto-Union, as reflected in the
> four-circle
> logo carried by Audi's to this day.  And, that same year, four camera
> companies were forced to merge into a Zeiss-dominated entity, Zeiss
> Ikon.
> The four were ICA, already Zeiss-owned, and three in which the Zeiss
> Foundation held minority interests:  CP Goerz, Ernemann, and
> Contessa-Nettel.  (The majority stockholder in the last went on to
> make the
> first camera known to be carried to the summit of Mount Everest, but
> that
> is a tale for another day!)
> 
> The early '80's Audi 4000S may well be the closest thing to automotive
> perfection yet built.  Mine has 200,000 miles (325,000 km, give or
> take) on
> the clock, and is chomping for another roll-over on the odometer.
> 
> Marc
> 
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!