u JUNE 13, 2005 AUTOMOTIVE NEWS EUROPE 19 u Suppliers to the new Volkswagen Golf Plus Volkswagen’s Golf Plus – a high-roof version of Europe’s top-seller – is specialist Carcoustics International of Leverkusen, Germany, has a high Volkswagen group’s other vehicles built on the company’s PQ35 platform. one of 15 new vehicles available with optional adaptive front lighting from level of responsibility for soundproofing and insulating the Golf Plus’ These include the Skoda Octavia, Seat Altea and Audi A3. The Golf Plus German supplier Hella (the others include the BMW 5 series, Opel Astra engine bay. Carcoustics delivers engine encapsulation, heat shielding is assembled at VW’s German plants in Wolfsburg and Mosel. VW aims and Land Rover’s Range Rover Sport). Heat and sound management and dashboard insulation to the car. It supplies those same parts to the to sell about 150,000 units of the car a year. – Alex Graham ENGINE CONTROL ABS/ESC: A/C COMPRESSOR: AIR CONDITIONING CAR NAVIGATION, CAN-CAN WINDSHIELD: SUN STEERING REAR DOME LAMP: ELECTRONIC CENTER REAR WINDSHIELD: SYSTEM: CONTINENTAL SANDEN LINES: PARK ASSIST: GATEWAY: SAINT-GOBAIN VISOR: COLUMN: CML INNOVATIVE MULTIPURPOSE MODULE: HIGH-MOUNTED AGC AUTOMOTIVE MAGNETI MARELLI TEVES MANULI BOSCH CONTITEMIC SEKURIT INTIER THYSSENKRUPP TECHNOLOGIES APAG ELEKTRONIK BRAKE LIGHT: EUROPE PRESTA FER INTEGRAL ENGINE PACKAGE TRAY: ENCAPSULATION: FAURECIA CARCOUSTICS ALL BRAKE LINES: FUEL FILTER: TI AUTOMOTIVE UFI FILTERS STAMPINGS: CAMSHAFTS: FLEX-N-GATE THYSSENKRUPP ELECTROCOAT: CAM COVER MODULES: BASF ELRINGKLINGER BUMPERS: VALVE COVER MODULE: PEGUFORM CR ELASTOMERE EGR: MODINE ENGINE VALVE SPRINGS: MUBEA 15-, 16-INCH PARKING HEATER: ALLOY WHEELS: WEBASTO BORBET GROUP PISTONS AND RINGS MAGNETIC ENCODER FOR DIESEL ENGINES: FOR ABS: FEDERAL-MOGUL PAULSTRA INTAKE MANIFOLD FOR 1.6-LITER FSI ENGINE: TIRES: MANN + HUMMEL PIRELLI BALANCE SHAFT DAMPER: PASSENGER SEAT SENSOR LUK FOR SEAT BELT REMINDER: IEE DOUBLE CLUTCH MODULE: BORGWARNER CARPET MODULE: ENGINE MOUNT: HP PELZER VIBRACOUSTIC CLUTCH MASTER CYLINDER: POWER WINDOW UNDERBODY COVER FTE REGULATORS: FASTENING: HEAT SHIELDS: BROSE EMHART TEKNOLOGIES LYDALL GERHARDI FRONT SIDE OIL MODULE FILTER ON AIRBAG: Suppliers wanted 2.0-LITER TDI ENGINE: TRW AUTOMOTIVE If you are a supplier and have SOGEFI FILTER DIVISION questions or want your information considered for our cutaway features, OPTIONAL BI-XENON HEADLAMPS ELECTRIC POWER FRONT BRAKE PADS: UNDERBODY AIR INTERIOR contact Alex Graham at WITH DYNAMIC BEND LIGHTING MODULE: DOOR RELEASE CABLE: MIRROR COVERS: BATTERY: STEERING: HONEYWELL FRICTION DOOR HINGES: DEFLECTORS: [email protected] MOLL, VARTA HELLA ZF LENKSYSTEME MATERIALS EDSCHA DURA A RAYMOND BORSCHEID + WENIG D/C stresses its American-ness More than Rams, 300s DaimlerChrysler’s North American WASHINGTON, D.C. – To counter sium and celebration was held June Toyota features its US plants and makers are less aware of Daimler- employment level by business unit fears that the US government may 6 to 8 for public officials and the workers in its advertising in the US. Chrysler’s business units that make Chrysler group: 92,000 introduce measures to protect its media. It was “a demonstration of DaimlerChrysler is especially sen- and sell large commercial trucks, Commercial vehicles (mainly domestic auto industry, Daimler- the full scope of DaimlerChrysler sitive to that threat. The 1998 merger school buses, fire engines and other Freightliner): 22,000 Chrysler put on a big show here and its commitment to the United of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler Corp. emergency vehicles. Mercedes-Benz (US plant in called “Impact on America.” States,” said Dennis Fitzgibbons, often is described as a German DaimlerChrysler’s US revenues The German-American company the company’s executive director of takeover of a US company. of about $100 billion (about E80.2 bil- Alabama): 2,200 aimed to impress hundreds of pol- public policy. lion) a year amount to 1 percent of Services (mainly vehicle finance): 5,500 icy-makers and opinion shapers D/C joins other non-US automak- Broad portfolio US gross domestic product, Automotive sales organization: 2,600 with D/C’s importance to the US ers concerned about being placed at Fitzgibbons describes the com- Fitzgibbons said. The company Other: 2,300 economy and society, despite its a competitive disadvantage by sub- pany’s motives this way: Daimler- plans $40 billion in US investment Total: 126,600 (101,400 in US) mixed parentage. tle changes in laws, regulations and Chrysler’s auto brands are over the next five years, he said. Source: Company The three-day exhibition, sympo- attitudes that benefit US companies. well-known. But, he said, policy- – Harry Stoffer Federal Mogul.