Audi do Brasil

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Audi do Brasil Indústria e Comércio de Veículos Ltda.

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legal form Sociedade limitada
founding 1997
Seat Sao José dos Pinhais , Brazil
management Johannes Roscheck (Managing Director)
Branch Automobile manufacturer
Website audi.com.br

Audi do Brasil Indústria e Comércio de Veículos Ltda. is an automobile manufacturer in São José dos Pinhais , Brazil .

history

Audi do Brasil was founded in 1997. At the same time, construction began on a plant in São José dos Pinhais near Curitiba , which was to be used by Volkswagen and Audi. The inauguration ceremony with the Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso took place on January 18, 1999.

The Audi A3 was the first vehicle model to be produced from 1999 to 2006 , at least initially from CKD kits. Production was stopped due to lack of profitability.

In 2000, Audi also went with Senna Import Participações Ltda. of the Formula 1 racing driver Ayrton Senna, who died in an accident in 1994 in Ingolstadt established the joint venture Audi Senna Ltda. a. Audi participated with 51 percent. Five years later, Audi founded Distribuidora de Veículos Ltda with Audi Brasil. established its own sales subsidiary in Brazil and took over the remaining 49% of the joint venture.

The production of Audi models resumed in 2015 in São José dos Pinhais. After the Audi A3, production of the Audi Q3 began in 2016. Both models are also manufactured here as an ethanol version.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Further expansion of the sales organization: Audi founds a Brazilian sales company. In: presseportal.de. January 1, 2000, accessed February 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Good start into an uncertain future ( memento of the original from August 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Automobil-Produktion 1999, pp. 112–118. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neue-verpackung.de
  3. ↑ Scherr + Klimke AG: Audi factory, Curitiba, Brazil. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011 ; Retrieved June 29, 2011 .
  4. ↑ VW and Audi are investing heavily in Brazil , in: Handelsblatt dated September 17, 2013.
  5. ↑ a b Audi AG: Audi Brasil Distribuidora de Veículos Ltda. .
  6. ↑ Audi founds Brazilian sales company , in Rheinische Post on March 17, 2005.
  7. ↑ a b Audi AG: Curitiba .