Posted on 01/07/2007 5:46:58 PM PST by bruinbirdman
Fascinating story, thanks.
>>>Aktiengesellschaft
Thank you!
In Germany, the terms Gmbh and AG are much the same as Incorporated, Corporation in the US.
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I said Audi AG because I think it is the current corporate entity name. In history the best known German car maker which fed into today's Audi was Auto Union. Note the symbol on the race car, too.
Auto Union has a long history--almost the same as Mercedes.
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AG is a German abbreviation for corporation ( like we would use Inc.).
Learning it meant Publicly Traded was helpful for a book I'm in the middle of reading. Thanks!
Yes. It's a super-secret German code, short for "aktiengesellschaft," which means "publicly traded corporation." Think Inc.
Ping!
If you don't have to worry about cooling a two-stroke engine, the amount of horsepower you can get out of it is almost limitless. At one point as I've heard it Auto Union was working on a pancake 8-cylinder 2-stroke which was producing something like 700 - 800 hp at about 1500 cc but they never found a complete solution to cooling it.
Means the same as Inc.
A spokesman for Christie's in Paris, said: "The 1939 Auto Union could well break the record. It is more important that the Bugatti Royale, which is a fantastic car, but the Auto Union has everything.Insipid salesmanship alone could lead any serious commentator to dare suggest that there exists a greater automobile than the original "Bug," the Bugatti Royale.
Our Christie's spokesman should just go away and forever for it. Sorry, Dorothy, but there's no comparison. The AU was a state-sponsored project; the Royale was a defiantly individualistic project born of individual genius. In technique, design, manufacture, and history there is none other than the Royal Bug.
For God's sake, it was not only the largest car ever built from ground-up, it's cylinders, making some 800+ cu. in., were bored out of a solid cast. The machine was unreal, unimaginable, and entirely unrepeatable.
Every modern racer is another '39 AU. No one could ever recreate a Royale:
I'm pretty sure that Porsche now has the biggest individual stake in VW AG, which owns Volkswagen, Audi, Seat, Skoda, Lambo, and a couple of others. It's not like they bought just a bigger stake in Audi.
Dang... 485 HP out of 3 liters in 1937? Is that correct? That's 160 HP per liter. A Rolls Royce Merlin V-12 supercharged 27 liter aircraft engine only made 50-60 HP per liter.
jw
An Audi racer wouldn't fall out of the sky, if an engine failed. And only had to go several score kilometers between rebuilds.
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