Audi Takes Quadruple Win in Powercar Sportscar Magazine's Readers Poll


Bartek S.

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INGOLSTADT/DUSSELDORF – September 10, 2008: Readers of the German specialist sportscar magazine Powercar have spoken: Thanks to its victories in four classes in the Powercar readers poll – achieved by the S3, S5, RS 6 Avant and R8 – Audi has captured the mantle of most successful automobile manufacturer. At the Meilenwerk Düsseldorf forum today, Stephan Reil, Head of Development at quattro GmbH, represented Audi by accepting the awards from Volker Koerdt, editor-in-chief of Powercar and Holger Eckhardt, the magazine’s project manager.
Especially triumphant was the first-place finish of the Audi S5, which, like last year, left the competition trailing by capturing 36.6 percent of readers’ votes in the “sports coupé” category. By garnering 13.4 percent of votes in this same category, the Audi TTS also gave the brand with the four rings second place among twelve competing sports coupés.
Among ten entrants in the “sports car” category, the Audi R8 once again dominated by winning 31.9 percent of votes.
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Audi AG is a German automotive manufacturer of luxury vehicles headquartered in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany. A subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, the company’s origins date back to the early 20th century and the initial enterprises (Horch and the Audiwerke) founded by engineer August Horch (1868–1951). Two other manufacturers (DKW and Wanderer) also contributed to the foundation of Auto Union in 1932. The modern Audi era began in the 1960s, when Volkswagen acquired Auto Union from Daimler-Benz, and merged it with NSU Motorenwerke in 1969.
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