36 AUTOMOTIVE NEWS EUROPE MAY 2, 2005 Suppliers to the new Seat Toledo The new Seat Toledo is the latest car on sale that is based on parent new generation of Seat cars. The first to market was the Altea five- high level of modular outsourcing, with axles, cockpits and door modules group’s PQ35 platform. In 2005, VW expects sales medium , which arrived in August 2004. Seat’s third new model being delivered as pre-assembled units. German supplier Benteler is totaling around 1.3 million PQ35 vehicles, which also include such is the Leon, which is scheduled to launch in September. VW’s chassis responsible for the axle assemblies on both models. SAS Autosysteme, a models as the VW Golf and Bora, , Seat Altea and Skoda Octavia. operation in Braunschweig, Germany, supplies rear subframes for the joint venture between Siemens VDO Automotive and Faurecia, supplies a European sales of the new Toledo, which started in October 2004, are Toledo as well as front and rear axles for the Altea. Both cars are built at fully-assembled cockpit for the new Toledo. projected to reach about 55,000 units annually. The Toledo is part of a the Spanish carmaker’s plant in Martorell, Spain.The Martorell plant has a – Alex Graham

FULL BEARING PACKAGE AIR CLEANER: AIR CONDITIONING WINDSHIELD: COCKPIT: RAIN, LIGHT AND INSTRUMENT AUTOMATIC SHIFTER SYSTEM: CENTRAL MODULES: SEAT INFLATABLE CURTAIN: (ON MOST ): MANN + HUMMEL LINES: PILKINGTON SAS AUTOSYSTEME TUNNEL SENSOR: CLUSTERS: FICOSA HELLA STRUCTURES: AUTOLIV FEDERAL-MOGUL MANULI VALEO SIEMENS VDO FAURECIA HIGH-MOUNTED STOP LIGHT: ROLLER FINGER INTIER FOLLOWER: INA RAYBOND ADHESIVE: HOODLINER: A RAYMOND RIETER

GAS & DIESEL FUEL TRUNK LIGHT: INJECTION SYSTEMS: CML INNOVATIVE BOSCH TECHNOLOGIES

HYDRAULIC PIVOT ELECTROCOAT: ELEMENT: BASF INA DOOR HANDLES, : TAILGATE LATCH: BORGWARNER HUF

TIMING BELTS: GATES REAR LIGHTS: AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING INTEGRATED COOLING FAN CONTROLLER: EXHAUST SYSTEM: ALCOA MAGNETI MARELLI

VALVES: FUEL FILTERS: MAHLE MAHLE

HEADLAMPS: AXLE BOOTS: VALEO CONTITECH

TIRES: MANUAL PIRELLI FLUID: CASTROL

ABS MAGNETIC IMPULSE RING: COOLING HOSES: HUTCHINSON/PAULSTRA CIKAUTXO

MTX SHIFT SYSTEM: Suppliers wanted UNDERBODY HEAT DURA If you are a supplier and have SHIELDS: LYDALL questions or want your information considered for our cutaway features, CLUTCH RELEASE SYSTEM, DOUBLE CLUTCH FRONT WHEEL ACCELERATOR MIRRORS: DOOR HINGE WITH contact Alex Graham at DOOR PANELS: BATTERIES: DUAL MASS FLYWHEEL MODULE: FRONT COIL SPRINGS: BEARINGS: PEDAL MODULE: FICOSA, GENTEX, DOOR CHECK: [email protected] VARTA LUK BORGWARNER ALLEVARD REJNA FAG HELLA MAGNA DONNELLY EDSCHA FAURECIA European group studies tires with traction sensors

DETROIT – A European industry ing the new technology. Vehicles already use chassis and vehicle’s existing supply. And The idea of intelligent tires has consortium has successfully com- A vehicle equipped with sensor- body sensors to detect when they it found a way to obtain data from been around since the mid-1990s, pleted tests of tires embedded with embedded tires is undergoing win- are losing traction or are in danger the sensors quickly enough to be a when German tire maker traction sensors. ter road tests in Finland, said one of of rolling over. useful part of a safety system. Continental proposed the idea of The study could pave the way for the project’s participants, Piero De The project may have solved two “Our desire was to see whether taking readings from tire sensors. automakers to rely on real-time read- La Pierre, strategic innovation critical problems that have pre- this was physically possible and it Also taking part in the current pro- ings of road and pavement conditions manager for Magneti Marelli vented the industry from pursuing was,” said De La Pierre. “The idea ject are the VTT Technical Research to guide a vehicle’s safety features. Electronic Systems. intelligent tires. was that it could be useful to get Center of Finland, the University of A consortium including De La Pierre presented a paper on It developed a way to transmit information related to exerted forces Helsinki in Finland and the DaimlerChrysler, Magneti Marelli the research during the SAE World steady power to isolated tire sen- on the vehicle directly at the point at University of Aachen in Germany. and tire maker Pirelli is research- Congress in Detroit held April 11-14. sors that cannot be connected to the which the force is generated.” – Lindsay Chappell

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