Audi Tradition

Audi Tradition 17

Anniversary Dates 2020

Start-Up of Technical Development

50 years

After the foundation stone was laid in 1969, the first buildings of the newly established Technical Develop­ ment division were ready to be occupied in Ingolstadt on the site of the former Max Emanuel Fort by late 1970.

of the former barracks building on the edge of Ingol- stadt city centre and set themselves up in the newly constructed buildings. Even though the developers and designers now no longer had to work in confined spaces, individual buildings close to the city from the Auto Union era were still used up until the 1980s.

In the period which followed, the design teams gradually moved out of their previous premises on the top floor