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• Auto woes manufacture city's decline

  - 2006-01-11

  YPSILANTI, Mich. -- Look at a map of Ypsilanti and draw your finger along Ford Street and over to the Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum, home to obscure cars once built here. Or circle around to Factory Street and Ford Lake, a man-made invention created when Henry Ford brought the promise...

  Tags: car, Ford Motor Co., job, Strategy, tax, Visteon Corp.

• Car suppliers will be hit by falling sales

  - 2003-03-18

  DETROIT -- Gloomy earnings predictions for automakers are trickling down to their suppliers, who analysts say will be hurt by curtailed output amid sagging sales. Already this month, General Motors Corp. has said it will cut second-quarter production by 10.5 percent and Ford Motor Co. plans a 17...

  Tags: analyst, car, Ford Motor Co., MARKETING, sales, supplier, Visteon Corp.

• Telematics Balancing act; Suppliers struggle to advance telematics while minimizing driver distraction.(Technology)(Brief Article)

  - 2002-09-16

  Byline: Andrew Dietderich Remember when stepping in your car and getting there was enough? Well, it's not anymore. Today, because of the emergence of automotive telematics, driving is all about getting there while having your car tell you how to Byline:...

  Tags: Borland Delphi, car, supplier, technology, telematics, Visteon Corp.

• Future cars will make today's look like clunkers.

  - 2000-10-30

  In fewer than 120 years, automobiles have evolved from ungainly, unreliable and uncomfortable horseless carriages to fabulously clean, comfortable and efficient machines. Consider the typical car of 1915. Fuel stations were few and far between, so In fewer than 120 years, automobiles have...

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• WWW.Drivethefuture;Web access and other high-tech gadgetry may soon be available in your automobile. Making sure that happens will be suppliers like Delphi, Visteon and Siemens Automotive.(Brief Article)

  - 2000-03-06

  Coming soon to a car near you: the Internet. As soon as 2001, Ford Motor Co. and DaimlerChrysler AG plan to offer Web access as an option in their cars. At the Geneva Auto Show in early March, PSA Peugeot Citroen announced plans for a...

  Tags: Borland Delphi, car, Internet, Siemens AG, supplier, Visteon Corp.

• Automotive plastics

  - 1998-09-01

  Heightened awarenessDon Vesey, supervisor, Composites, Plastics, and Textiles, at Chrysler Corp., characterizes the company's position on plastics as an evolving awareness of expanding opportunities in material selection. "The important thing is to learn to use any material most effectively; and that is what we try to do as the choices...

  Tags: car, Chrysler LLC, Ford Motor Co., injection, nylon, plastics, polymer, technology, The Dow Chemical Co., Visteon Corp.

• Recycling revs automakers

  - 1998-05-25

  DETROIT - As global pressure mounts for plastics recycling, North American automakers plan to heed the call by switching to instrument panels made entirely from one material. Consider the array of current and upcoming products in an area once considered future fancy: Engineers at General...

  Tags: car, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., Manufacturing, recycling, substrate, Visteon Corp.

• Visteon: a new kind of auto supplier

  - 1998-03-02

  To prepare for the expanding invasion of electronics into automobiles, the Ford Motor Company reorganized its wholly-owned parts suppliers--and its joint venture partners--into a single new corporation called Visteon. First unveiled at the Frankfurt Auto Show last September, Visteon made its U.S. debut last week in Detroit at the 1998...

  Tags: car, Ford Motor Co., MARKETING, SALES, Visteon Corp.