{"id":85357,"date":"2021-11-29T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=85357"},"modified":"2021-12-01T17:16:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T17:16:11","slug":"audi-a8l-horch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/audi-a8l-horch\/","title":{"rendered":"Audi A8L Horch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Audi is reviving the historic Horch brand name after more than 64 years. August Horch founded his own car brand in Cologne in 1899 and moved production to Reichenbach in the Vogtland region in 1901. After the local city council refused to allow an expansion of the factory site, the company moved to Zwickau in 1903. In the period that followed, the young brand developed well and was able to build up a good reputation through numerous victories in motorsports. However, it proved to be a mistake for August Horch to have reorganized his company as a stock corporation. In the opinion of many shareholders and the CFO, he wasn’t leading the brand in the right direction. As a result, the founder was pressured to leave his factory in 1909. Horch then founded August Horch Automobilwerke GmbH in the immediate vicinity. In court, however, he was forbidden to use his own name again for a car brand. Shortly afterwards, he changed the name to the Latin imperative “Audi”, which translates as Horch! into German.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First Horch model in 64 years<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In 1932, Horch, Audi, Wanderer and DKW merged to form Auto Union AG. All four brands continued to produce independent automobiles. After World War 2, Horch production was located in the Russian eastern sector. Production of tractors and trucks resumed there in 1948 under the name “VEB Horch Kraftfahrzeug- und Motorenwerke Zwickau”. In 1954, the Sachsenring P 240<\/a><\/strong> was the last automobile on which the Horch brand name could be found, at least temporarily. Now this slumber is over. The Audi A8L Horch made its debut at the Auto Show in Guangzhou, China. The base vehicle is the long-wheelbase version of the fifth-generation A8. This has 130 millimeters more wheelbase, which fully benefits the rear passengers. Overall, the car has a length of 5.45 meters.<\/p>\n\n\n

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