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Posted by: fatlando Apr 18 2005, 04:59 PM

I ponder that every time I'm at a stop light.

Verbotten. Deadly. Outside?

Villianous dudley odometer?

i'm bored!

Posted by: VegasRacer Apr 18 2005, 05:02 PM

Vehicle Display Output

Posted by: SLITS Apr 18 2005, 05:06 PM

Vehicle Display Output

or

Träger-Bildschirmausgabe

Damnit John

Posted by: Andy Apr 18 2005, 05:10 PM

Having flashbacks of my high-school german teacher, responding with "Auf deutsch!" whenever english was uttered...

VDO (Vereinigte DEUTA (Duetsche Tachometerwerke GmbH) OTA (OTA Apparate GmbH)) was a manufacturer of information and cockpit systems, navigation, telematics, communication and audio systems and control and fuel systems.

The company was founded by Adolf Schindling at the end of the 1920s in Frankfurt, Germany by joining DEUTA and OTA. The company made tachometers and instrument clusters for passenger cars and commercial vehicles.

I'm not really that smart, wikipedia had it.

Posted by: fatlando Apr 18 2005, 05:21 PM

you guys think you're smart cuz you can read!!!!

thanx for the class brotha!

fat lando

Posted by: SLITS Apr 18 2005, 05:24 PM

Well, we just figured you were to close to the Canadians to really understand good english or german.

Posted by: SirAndy Apr 18 2005, 05:56 PM

QUOTE (VegasRacer @ Apr 18 2005, 03:02 PM)
Vehicle Display Output

well, that's the story for you history challanged amuricans ...

what it actually means is:
"Vereinigte Deuta OTA"

VDO was founded in 1929 when the two companies "OTA Apparate GmbH" and the automotive devision of "Deuta" (Deutsche Tachometerwerke GmbH) (both in Berlin) merged into "Vereinigte Deuta OTA", which simply means "Merged Deuta and OTA" ...

there you have it!
Andy

Posted by: SirAndy Apr 18 2005, 06:11 PM

oh, and it's pronounced something like: ffouh de oo

ff as in f**k
ou as in mouse
h is sort of silent, just a hint of it at the end

de as in demo

oo as in otto

Posted by: VegasRacer Apr 18 2005, 06:21 PM

It doesn't matter to me if I was correct or not.
The point is that I answered first.

Posted by: seanery Apr 18 2005, 06:24 PM

I thought it was Very Dim Output

Posted by: Dave_Darling Apr 18 2005, 07:45 PM

No, Sean. That's Lucas....

--DD

Posted by: TGM Apr 18 2005, 09:25 PM

Thanks for the history lesson. I do business with what is now SVDO (Siemens VDO) and never knew what the letters stood for.