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From YourSITE.com Vintage News Fans of Audis and Le Mans racing now have the opportunity to get themselves one of the most detailed model Le Mans racers ever. They can also benefit a good cause thanks to Amalgam Fine Model Cars, Audi and Toy Collector. The company, which creates high-quality scale model cars and yachts for designers, manufacturers and high-end collectors worldwide, has donated one of their 1/8-scale Audi R10 TDI models to the online charity auction Toy Collector is running in conjunction with Audi to mark the brand’s centenary.
The Amalgam R10 is available in addition to over 20 other models provided by Audi themselves from the Audi Miniatures Collection, and other manufacturers including CMC, Neo and Schuco. All the models available are also featured in Toy Collector’s special Audi Centenary Blog, tracing the marque’s history in small-scale. They span the whole Audi timeline and include CMC’s 1936 225 Front Roadster and 1938 920 Cabriolet, Brumm and Revell 1930’s Auto Union Streamliner Grand Prix cars, 1960’s DKWs and Auto Unions from Minichamps and iconic modern Audis like the Quattro, TT and R8 in various scales. The blog entries are as follows: Week 1: Pre-1940 Audis; the 225 Front Roadster & 920 Cabriolet Week 2: Auto Union Takes on the Grand Prix: The Silver Arrows Week 3: Two Strokes to Postwar Recovery: The DKW F-Series & Auto Union 1000 Week 4: Audi's Return: The DKW Junior, Audi F103, 80 & 100 Week 5: The Audi 100 Avant: A Very Audi Invention Week 6: Defining 80's Performance: The Audi Quattro Week 7: Motorsport Dominance 80's Style: The Rally Quattros Week 8: Understated Luxury On and Off Road: The A5 & Q7 Week 9: Defining 00's Performance: The TT & R8 Week 10: Audi Motorsport Now: the R10 TDI & A4 DTM For further information, please see: • www.toycollector.com/AudiCentenaryBlog • www.toycollector.com/AudiCentenaryAuction
About the Helen & Douglas House Helen & Douglas House is a registered charity providing respite and end of life care for children and young adults with life-shortening conditions, as well as support and friendship for the whole family. The two hospice houses are bright, vibrant and positive places, where the emphasis is on living life to the full, even when that life may be short. There are many families in the UK caring for a child or young adult who has a life-shortening condition. Caring for someone, often for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, over many years, can put an immeasurable strain upon the family. While families willingly invest love, energy and care, life becomes governed by the relentless timetable of nursing and medical needs. Relationships can suffer, careers may have to be abandoned, healthy brothers and sisters can feel left out and regular family activities and holidays can be rare. Families can often feel alone and afraid in their grief. How Helen & Douglas House can help Children can stay at Helen House and young adults can stay at Douglas House, along with their families, for short periods of time for rest and recuperation, treatment of distressing symptoms, end of life care and support More information on http://www.helenanddouglas.org.uk About Audi Audi UK has enjoyed an exceptionally rapid rise to prominence in the premium sector. In 2000 just over 43,000 Audi models found homes in the UK, and from that point until 2008 the brand has continually broken annual sales records, successfully passing the milestone 100,000 sales mark in 2007 and 2008, when it ended the year with a record 4.7% market share from 100,845 sales. Globally, the brand exceeded 1 million deliveries for the first time in its history in 2008, marking the occasion with its best ever revenue figure and a record profit-before-tax total of 3.177 billion Euros (£2.94 billion) in the process. With its programmes for both road and race cars the brand continues to maintain its dramatic trajectory. On the road it is extending its reach into important new segments with strong offerings such as the A3 Cabriolet, A5 Cabriolet, Q5, RS 6 and R8, while at the same time bolstering its appeal to its existing customer base with core models like the all-new A4 and A4 Avant. On the race circuit Audi Sport will aspire to secure its ninth Le Mans victory in 2009 with the R15 TDI - a completely new sports prototype powered by a newly developed ten-cylinder diesel engine. In 2009, the Audi brand established by August Horch on July 16, 1909 celebrates its centenary. The four rings of the Audi badge symbolise the brands Audi, DKW, Horch and Wanderer, which were combined to form Auto Union in 1932. Auto Union and NSU, which merged in 1969, both made many significant contributions towards the development of the car. AUDI AG was formed from Audi NSU Auto Union AG in 1985. Together with the two traditional companies Auto Union GmbH and NSU GmbH, Audi Tradition has nurtured the extensive, diverse history of Audi for many years and presented it to the public. The Audi museum mobile at the Audi Forum Ingolstadt (Germany) is open daily from Monday to Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The August Horch Museum in Zwickau (Germany) is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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