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August Horch, the founder of Audi was a young German engineer who started working as a blacksmith. After receiving his degree in engineering, he worked in shipbuilding before working under Karl Benz, founder of Mercedes-Benz car manufacturing company. Horch worked under Benz for 3 years before starting his own venture. 

No, Audi was not the first car manufacturing company that August Horch started. In fact, Horch founded a car manufacturing company called A Horch and Cie in 1899. The Horch car company was pretty successful and even won many accolades in Europe. But in 1909, after some difference with investors, Horch decided to start a new company and hence Audi was born.

After parting ways with A. Horch and Cie. in 1899, Horch decided to form another company and named it August Horch Automobilwerke GmbH. But dues to legal issues and copyright infringement issues, Horch was asked to drop 'Horch' from the company name. He ultimately used 'Audi' as the final name, which is Latinization of Horch and means 'listen' in Latin.

While the Horch automobile company and Horch himself, started on a wrong note, they decided to mend ways sometime in 1932. Audi decided to form the Auto Union with Horch company, DKW and Wandered. Each company got their own market segment, Horch for high-end luxury cars, Audi for deluxe cars, Wanderer stuck with standard mid-size cars and DKW decided to go with small cars and motorcycles. And hence four rings depicts the Auto Union of 4 companies.Add an answer to this item.

You might be thinking that crash testing is a relatively new development with all the dummies, cameras and sensors in place. But that's not true! Audi has been doing crash testing for ages now, precisely 75 years and used to demonstrate the safety by rolling down an Audi F7 from a hill.