In the mid-1980s, Audi was one of the American auto ...

When in 1992–1993 both BMW and Mercedes-Benz announced they were going to open production lines in the United States, Gerd Klauss declared that Audi would follow suit. One of the Audi board members reasoned in the fall of 1995, after the German competitors had built their U.S. plants, that the company “needed to be involved in a dollar base ... ................
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