Is Audi part of VW?

Volkswagen Group sells passenger cars under the Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, SEAT, Škoda and Volkswagen marques; motorcycles under the Ducati brand; and commercial vehicles under the marques MAN, Scania, Neoplan and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. read more

As part of the Industrial plans for Germany, large parts of German industry, including Volkswagen, were to be dismantled. Total German car production was set at a maximum of 10% of the 1936 car production numbers. read more

Volkswagen being the parent company owns Audi and Porsche. They share a lot of parts. The parts/ technology sharing always comes down from a premium car to the everyday passenger car. For example, If Porsche develops a new engine tomorrow, it will be further used in an Audi and the parts/technology will trickle down to Volkswagen, Skoda, Seat and so on. read more

The company became Audi AG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Volkswagen, with its own factories, engineering and design. Since then, a lot of development between the VW Car Group and Audi is done together to save costs, just like Mazda and Ford. read more