The big Audi 100:
Pleasant travelling with lots of comfort technology.
The safe continuous speed, the great comfort and the balanced
Long-distance chassis make the Audi 100 the perfect touring saloon
AUDI NSU lead through Tehnik.
1975 Advertising / Advertising for Audi 100 GL type 104
Imagine, they come directly from the competition, run a small designer department that was about to be dissolved, build & create there nevertheless with a small handpicked team mostly after work a ready-made production car, although it was expressly forbidden. Finally, you also have the courage to present this novel car to the Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG and at the same time Beetle King Heinz Nordhoff, with the ulterior motive that you are threatened with immediate expulsion or dismissal with all conceivable consequences, even though Auto Union was already on the verge of bankruptcy. It was not for nothing that Daimler, completely unnerved, sold the Ingolstadt plant to Volkswagen in 1966 and VW was pleased to have acquired a new location at a favourable price for the still very successful Beetle production.
I have been practicing vintage car photography for more than 35 years and here I mainly photograph normal everyday vehicles which were still on the road en masse over 30 years ago. But also cars with extraordinary, beautiful design. From time to time I take pictures of cars, .. Read more…