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Reading Material：Car Logo Have you ever wondered why the Audi has a logo of four interlocked rings? Did you know that the Cadillac emblem was inspired by a family crest of a nobleman who later turned out to be a fraud? Let’s take a look at the fascinating stories behind the logos of some of the most popular cars in the world: * Car Logo 1. Audi German engineer August Horch, who used to work for Karl Benz, founded his own automobile company A. Horch Cie in 1899. A decade later, he was forced out of his own company and set up a new company in another town and continued using the Horch brand. His former partners sued him, and August Horch was forced to look for a new name. * Vehicle Identification Number Digits four through eight might also be coded for information on the transmission used, the grade of the car, or other features such as safety belts and air bags. The next three digits are consistent among all manufacturers: * Vehicle Identification Number The ninth digit is always a check digit. The other digits in the VIN go through a series of calculations to obtain the correct check digit. This allows computers to tell immediately if there is an error in the VIN, which often happens when someone transcribes a VIN or enters it into a computer. * Vehicle Identification Number The model year digit is the tenth digit. Each year has a code character. 2001 was given code 1, 2002 is code 2, and so forth. The eleventh digit is the plant code, representing the factory where the car was assembled. * Vehicle Identification Number The last six digits, 12 through 17, are production sequence numbers, although small manufacturers that make fewer than 500 cars per year use the 12th, 13th and 14th digits as additional manufacturer identification codes. Production sequence numbers identify the vehicle itself, sort of like a serial number. * Vehicle Identification Number Since each manufacturer has a different code, and each car produced by the same factory has its own producti