Audi Tradition - Anniversary Dates 2025
With the Anniversary Dates 2025 booklet, Audi Tradition is showcasing the most important moments in the product and company history of Audi, which is as eventful as it is diverse. Audi historians have selected a total of 27 dates to commemorate in 2025.
25 Years of the Audi A2
Twenty-five years ago, the Audi A2 hit the market. With its aluminum body, it made a name for itself as a progressive compact car: light, aerodynamic, and economical. The Audi A2 polarized opinion with its design and unusual proportions; the concept was ahead of its time. However, sales remained below expectations, and Audi ended production after roughly five years and 176,377 units built. Since then, the Audi A2 became a fan favorite and is now a sought-after collector’s item.
60 Years Since the First Post-War Audi
Sixty years ago, the first post–World War II Audi rolled off the production line. With the Auto Union Audi vehicle, Auto Union GmbH revived the tradition-steeped Audi brand name in 1965. The new name was meant to show that this car represented a fresh start for Auto Union in terms of technology. The Audi was the first car from the brand with four rings to feature a four-cylinder four-stroke engine, marking the beginning of a new era in Ingolstadt.
Twenty years later, on January 1, 1985, Audi NSU Auto Union AG was renamed AUDI AG, and since that time, the company and its products have shared the same short, memorable name.
90 Years of Record-Breaking Speed
Ninety years ago, in February 1935, a spectacular attempt to break speed records took place in Italy. After test drives in October 1934 with the Grand Prix racing car on the AVUS in Berlin, the Auto Union racing department started developing the vehicle that would later be known as the Lucca car. Just a few weeks later, in December 1934, it was presented during initial test drives on the AVUS.
The record attempts were planned in Hungary but were moved to Italy at the last minute due to bad weather. The one-kilometer and one-mile records were targeted to be broken with a flying start on a five-kilometer stretch between Pescia and Altopascio. Test drives took place on February 14, 1935, and the next day, on February 15, the car piloted by Hans Stuck performed as planned and was heralded the world’s fastest road-going car. With a speed of 326.975 km/h reached near Lucca, the vehicle broke 26 world records and 13 international class records.
Additional Milestone Anniversaries
The Anniversary Dates 2025 booklet contains several additional anniversaries to discover, including:
25 years of the first Audi victory at Le Mans
25 years of Audi allroad quattro
35 years of Audi duo hybrid vehicles
40 years of fully galvanized bodies in large-scale automotive engineering
50 years of the Audi 80 GTE
55 years of the Audi 100 Coupé S
60 years of the NSU Prinz 1000 TT and NSU Type 110
75 years of the first post-war DKW passenger car
90 years of the Horch 850 series
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