Audi's Logo Is a Graveyard: 18 German Car Brands That Vanished (Part 1)

18 German car brands that vanished, in the order they died. Part 1: Stoewer, Horch, Wanderer, Maybach, Adler, Hanomag, Heinkel and the Zündapp Janus. Part 2 continues with Borgward, Messerschmitt, DKW, Glas, NSU, Melkus, Wartburg and Trabant. Audi's four rings were once four separate car makers: Horch, Audi, DKW and Wanderer. Only one of those names is still a car brand. And the name Audi itself comes from August Horch: Horch means "listen" in German, and in Latin, listen is "audi". Germany once had dozens of car brands. Luxury makers wiped out by war, bubble cars built by grounded aircraft companies, and the people's cars of East Germany. This is how each of them died, and what they all had in common. ▶ Part 2:    • Audi's Logo Is a Graveyard: 18 German Car ...   Which of these cars would you bring back? Tell us in the comments. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:01 The Rise 2:07 Stoewer (1945) 3:16 Horch (1945) 4:40 Wanderer (1945) 5:49 Maybach (1940) 7:01 Adler (1949) 8:15 Hanomag (1941) 9:14 Heinkel (1958) 10:15 Zündapp Janus (1958) Archive footage and photos: public domain or openly licensed. Full list of all sources, authors and licenses: https://claude.ai/artifact/JNoCCWFukf... Video footage under CC BY: Philipp Kaess (   • Rundgang im Audi Museum, welche Klassiker ...  ); Classic-Car.TV (   • Goliath "Goli"  ); Classic-Car.TV (   • Lloyd 600 - Sparsam durch die Zeit des Wir...  ); Classic-Car.TV (   • Borgward Isabella  ); Classic-Car.TV (   • Messerschmitt Kabinenroller  ); Classic-Car.TV (   • DKW Monza  ); JAB Cars TV (   • Ist das Goggomobil T250 der PERFEKTE Klass...  ); Classic-Car.TV (   • NSU Prinz 2/30  ); VideoFolke (   • Wartburg - Ostauto-Treff in Dornburg an de...  ); Kolben Klemmer (   • 1989 Trabant 601 Test Drive  ) Text sources: Wikipedia (en/de) articles on each brand; Der Spiegel 51/1960. Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)