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

Verbotten. Deadly. Outside?

Villianous dudley odometer?

i'm bored! alfred.gif
VegasRacer
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SLITS
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or

Träger-Bildschirmausgabe



Damnit John mad.gif
Andy
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.
fatlando
you guys think you're smart cuz you can read!!!!

thanx for the class brotha! biggrin.gif

fat lando
SLITS
Well, we just figured you were to close to the Canadians to really understand good english or german.
SirAndy
QUOTE (VegasRacer @ Apr 18 2005, 03:02 PM)
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well, that's the story for you history challanged amuricans ... biggrin.gif

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!
rolleyes.gif Andy
SirAndy
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

VegasRacer
It doesn't matter to me if I was correct or not.
The point is that I answered first. smilie_pokal.gif
seanery
I thought it was Very Dim Output confused24.gif wacko.gif
Dave_Darling
No, Sean. That's Lucas.... lol2.gif

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