GS and what it means

[ILLIYA]

Hello All. I would like to know exactly what "GS" stands for. Is it specifically a German designation/origination, meaning both off and on road capabilities? And what is the actual German word? I saw a Utube video where the person says something like "Galondastrasen". Thank you for your replies.

 

[classicvw]

Someone will correct my attempt at this, but it is Gelande/Strabe meaning off road/on road.

 

[20774]

I think you're thinking of G/S. When it became GS for the '88 models, the S stood for Sport.

 

[pauls1150]

Gelande/Strasse; literal translation is Terrain/Road

(English keyboards don't have an equivalent for the German SS; maybe there's an ASCII equivalent)

 

[akbeemer]

Gelanda can mean ground or cross country. Strasse means road or street. Put them together and it is German for "Big Bucks".

 

[dennisdarrow]

If I remember right, there is an article about the umpteenth thousanth one being produced on the Motorcyle Owners of America websight homepage. It even spells it out.......God bless.......Dennis

 

[guenner]

All I remember is it stands for Gelaende/Strasse. Which is kind of ridiculous because any forrest road, unpaved farm road or, basically any public dirt road (this is what the word Gelaende includes) are off for motorcycles in Germany (Verboten!). Friends of mine back in the Vaterland to have fun with their GSes take the night train to Marseille in the south of France and then the ferry over to Marocco. Or, pay 50 Euros and enjoy a day in one of the few private "off-road parcs". There they can have fun with the "G" features of the GS.

And those Umlauts (and other strange letters) can be produced by "hold-ALT while keying in 0228 on numeric keypad". To find all the specific codes like 0228 lookup under start->All programms->Accessories->System Tools->Character Map.

Unforunately the forum's web application only supports the US English character set.

/Guenther

 

[Arte Johns son]

I think they still work (on my Mac, anyway):

Gel?nde/Stra?e

Cheers!

John

Oops! I was wrong! They work when you click preview post, but submitting killed them. Odd…

 

[20774]

I was experimenting with this the other day for some French words, and had to use the HTML character set (thanks Darryl!). For a-umlaut, the HTML code is "& a u m l ;" (without the quotes and spaces between letters). When I type the German word and substitute the HTML code in the middle, I get the proper display.

gelände

Notice at the bottom of the screen is says "HTML code is on" meaning that HTML entries should show properly.

 

[Arte Johns son]

Straße

Does it work?

Yes!

Thanks!

 

[lkraus]

°

Hey! I just earned a degree!

apparently need HTML names rather than numbers.
ampersand deg semi-colon

HTML names here.

 

[dukekaboom]

What Does G/S Stand For?

The correct German spelling using the proper "Umlaut" and "scharfes S" (the latter literally meaning sharp S but can be written as double S's) is "Gel?nde/Stra?e" and it means Terrain/Street. -- Gel?nde can also refer to open country. You may also remember that Mercedes-Benz produces a military vehicle called the Gel?ndewagen, a civilian version of which is sold in the United States as the G-Class. Like the BMW motorcycle, neither is particularly inexpensive!

Kent