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1968-’77 NSU RO 80

Progress through Technology. This German-language slogan, since the 1980s associated with Audi, was first used by the recently formed Volkswagen subsidiary Audi NSU Auto Union AG in 1971 to promote NSU’s flagship Ro 80. The slogan suited that groundbreaking four-door, whose sleek form contained a Wankel twin-rotor

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