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!
VegasRacer
Apr 18 2005, 05:02 PM
Vehicle Display Output
SLITS
Apr 18 2005, 05:06 PM
Vehicle Display Output
or
Träger-Bildschirmausgabe
Damnit John
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.
fatlando
Apr 18 2005, 05:21 PM
you guys think you're smart cuz you can read!!!!
thanx for the class brotha!
fat lando
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.
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
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
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.
seanery
Apr 18 2005, 06:24 PM
I thought it was Very Dim Output
Dave_Darling
Apr 18 2005, 07:45 PM
No, Sean. That's Lucas....
--DD
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.
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