Audi: Book about Audi's design

There is a new publication in the AUDI Tradition covering the Audi Design "Automobile Organization from 1965 to the Present".

In the past decades, AUDI set many trends in automobive design. In the new publication "AUDI Design - Automobile Organization from 1965 to the Present", published by AUDI Tradition, analyzes and comments upon the entire model range of the 40-year contemporary history of Audi design. Audi’s impressive post-war design is explained in detail. The author Othmar Wickenheiser includes sketches and images of models, views of the secrets of the fascinating jobs of Audi’s automobive designers. He carries the reader forward on an exciting journey of the recent past into the near future of AUDI Design.

The book carefully thoroughly investigates the process with photographs and Illustrated designs. An extensive glossary describes the most important technical terms from automobive design in an understandable way. The author Othmar Wickenheiser, born 1962, has been a professor for Transportation Design in Munich since 1996. His work "AUDI Design - Automobile Organization from 1965 to the Present" covers 367 pages and pas published by Nicolai publishing. The book is available now at a price of 64.00 Euros in bookstores and in the museum shop at the Audi Forum in Ingolstadt. It can also be ordered online at www.Audi.de/museumshop.

The four rings of the Audi brand symbolzes the marques Audi, DKW, Horch and Wanderer, which were all part of the Auto Union. Auto Union and NSU, which merged in 1969, shaped the development of the automobile considerably. In1985 AUDI NSU Auto Union AG was created and later Audi AG. Audi Tradition maintains maintains and presents the history of Auto Union GmbH and NSU GmbH as part of the broad Audi history.