Forster will be follower of Bob Lutz

[C20LET_50]

Just read in the German "WirtschaftsWoche" that Carl-Peter Forster (President GM Europe) will go to Detroit in spring 2008 as replacement of Bob Lutz, so Rick Wagoner told at Detroit Motor Show.
One of his jobs will be to merge the brands Saturn and Opel more and more.

Here is the article ( German only):

http://www.wiwo.de/pswiwo/fn/ww2/sfn...t/0/index.html

[KappaMan]

Systran translation of site. You get the gist...

GM European boss changes 2008 to DetroitCarl-Peter Forster.

(caption of picture: GM European boss Carl-Peter Forster changes 2008 to Detroit, photo: Bert Bostelmann for restaurant economics)

Carl-Peter Forster, Praesident von General of engine in Europe, moves up in the spring 2008 into the company executive committee. How the restaurant week reports, GM boss Rick Wagoner is to have communicated this to the 52-jaehrigen Forster at the edge Detroit engine Show.

Therefore Forster is to beerben in coming January that soon 75-jaehrigen autoveterans Robert A. Lutz and become new development boss of general of engine with world-wide responsibility. Wagoner and Forster are itself after information of the restaurant week already to a large extent united over the arrangement of the job.

With the appointment to Detroit the company steering wheel thanks you Forster also for the successful turn around in Europe. In the past year the enterprise sold in Europe also over two million cars as many vehicles as never before and brought a profit in in three-figure million height. The European business developed thereby under Forster's guidance from the Verlustbringer to one of the basic columns of the company.

From Detroit Forster is to advance now the unification of the marks OPELS and Saturn. Beside the compact car OPELS Astra are to be sold in the future also the Kompaktvan OPEL Zafira as well as the next OPEL Vectra combination in the USA under the American mark.

[ 13.01.2007 ] From the restaurant week 3/2007.

[JohnD]

Originally Posted by KappaMan

Systran translation of site. You get the gist...

I love it! "GM" becomes "general of engine." Way cool!

[Skip]

Whoa an yall thought I could not talk right. I dun red that thar translanguation an I actually understood it . Of course I almost lost it in the restaurant part. But hey who am I ta say tha wordin was a little bad...Skip...I be smart...

[marlboromike]

I Know Nutting!! Schultzie

[KappaMan]

If you've ever been around Germans, it actually helps to read the translation with a very heavy German accent.

To yourself, of course. Anyone listening to you might think you're mad

[JohnD]

Yeah, they lost me there. I got "general of engine" but what is "restaurant week?" What am I missing?

As a side note, one of the classic examples of why computers should not translate languages is the case of a phrase being translated from English to Russian, and then the Russian translated back to English:

Before: "The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak."

After: "The wine was agreeable but the meat has spoiled."

Kinda loses something in the translation there...

[KappaMan]

Originally Posted by JohnD

Yeah, they lost me there. I got "general of engine" but what is "restaurant week?" What am I missing?

As a side note, one of the classic examples of why computers should not translate languages is the case of a phrase being translated from English to Russian, and then the Russian translated back to English:

Before: "The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak."

After: "The wine was agreeable but the meat has spoiled."

Kinda loses something in the translation there...

Yeah.

WirtschaftsWoche somehow translates to "restaurant economics" But in some contexts, it translates to "restaurant week". Makes sense, because 'woche' is German for week.


but, Wirtschafts Woche means "Economics Week", which is what I THINK it's supposed to be.


I THINK it's supposed to be closer to

GM European boss changes 2008 to DetroitCarl-Peter Forster.

(caption of picture: GM European boss Carl-Peter Forster changes 2008 to Detroit, photo: Bert Bostelmann for Economics Week)

Carl-Peter Forster, President of General Motors in Europe, moves up in the spring 2008 into the company executive committee. Economics
Week reports, GM boss Rick Wagoner is to have communicated this to the 52-year old Forster at the edge Detroit Auto Show.

Therefore Forster is to beerben in coming January that soon 75-year old autoveterans Robert A. Lutz and become new development boss of General Motors with world-wide responsibility. Wagoner and Forster are, according to information from Economics Week, already to a large extent united over the arrangement of the job.

With the appointment to Detroit the company managment thanks and credits Forster also for the successful turn around in Europe. In the past year the enterprise sold in Europe also over two million cars, more vehicles than in the past, and brought a profit in in three-figure million height. The European business developed thereby under Forster's guidance from the Verlustbringer to one of the basic columns of the company.

From Detroit Forster is to advance now the unification of the brands OPELS and Saturn. Beside the compact car OPEL'S Astra are to be sold in the future also the Kompaktvan OPEL Zafira as well as the next OPEL Vectra combination in the USA under the American brand [Saturn].

[ 13.01.2007 ] From the Economics Week 3/2007.

[JohnD]

Originally Posted by KappaMan

I THINK it's supposed to be closer to...

Well there you go. I'd pick you over computer software any Tag of the Woche.

[Skip]

Well Kappaman iffen yall can be decifirin them German words an all I guess yall can be decifirin Skips words an all...Skip...Thank you for the clarification of the text...
.

[marlboromike]

Alabamian was the secret language against the Japanese in WW2...they could never decipher it...SKIP was our SECRET WEAPON....a national hero.

[C20LET_50]

Originally Posted by KappaMan

If you've ever been around Germans, it actually helps to read the translation with a very heavy German accent.

To yourself, of course. Anyone listening to you might think you're mad

That's the way I try to understand that Alabamian sometimes
BTW good correction of the computer translator

With the fusion of Saturn and Opel will Saturn become a European styled "sub brand" of Opel over the years

[KappaMan]

Originally Posted by Skip

Well Kappaman iffen yall can be decifirin them German words an all I guess yall can be decifirin Skips words an all...Skip...Thank you for the clarification of the text...
.

I've never had a problem deciphering you, Skee-yup.

I don't know if I should admit that or not...

[Mark in INdiana]

What becomes of Bob Lutz? Hopefully he will still be strongly involved/influential in the product somehow.