Audi Sport GmbH

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Audi Sport GmbH

Company type	Subsidiary (GmbH)
Industry	Automotive
Founded	Neckarsulm, Germany (October 1983)[1][2]
Headquarters	Neckarsulm
Number of locations	one 3,500 m2 site at Neckarsulm
Area served	Worldwide
Products	High-performance luxury automobiles,[2] wheels and suspension components, specialist body styling parts, automotive consumer goods
Services	Automotive design, testing, production, research and development
Operating income	€220 million (2004)
Owner	Volkswagen Group
Number of employees	580 (plus 250 additional R8 employees) (2009)[1][2]
Parent	Audi
Subsidiaries	Volkswagen R GmbH Volkswagen Individual GmbH
Website	audi.com/audisport

Audi Sport GmbH, formerly known as quattro GmbH,^[3] is the high-performance car manufacturing subsidiary of Audi,^[1][4][5][6] itself a subsidiary of the greater Volkswagen Group.

Founded in October 1983 as quattro GmbH, it primarily specializes in producing high-performance Audi cars^[2] and components, along with purchaser specified customizations.^[1] The company's former name was a homage to Audi's original four-wheel drive rally-inspired road car—the Audi Quattro. In 2016, the company was renamed Audi Sport GmbH.^[7]

It is located in a 3,500 square metres (37,670 sq ft) site at Neckarsulm,^[4] near Stuttgart, in the German State of Baden-Württemberg. Development and manufacturing factories^[2] is based within a larger 10,700 square metres (115,170 sq ft) site of the now defunct German automotive maker (and Wankel pistonless rotary engine pioneer) NSU Motorenwerke AG ^{[clarification needed]}

Its core products include the Audi RS4, the Audi RS6 and the Audi R8. Furthermore, it is a 'closed company', in that it does not sell its automobiles directly to the public via franchised outlets under its own brand name; instead, they are sold under the Audi marque. However, it does now^[when?] sell 'quattro GmbH' branded lifestyle products and accessories via Audi franchised outlets and Audi Forum such as that located in the Allianz Arena on the northern outskirts of Munich, Germany.