This Week:

• Ford unveils an American beauty in Thunderbird Sports Roadster concept

• "Will" Finds Its Way To 2001 Los Angeles Auto Show In The Form of a New Concept Vehicle

• 2001 Detroit Auto Show - Three world premieres for Mercedes-Benz

• Renault consolidates its lead with 29.1% of the French automobile market in 2000

• Porsche - Horst Marchart hands over the Development Center in Weissach to Wolfgang Dürheimer

• BMW Group Looks Back On A Successful Year: Over 2,500 New Jobs In Germany

• Mercedes-Benz M-Class Production in 2000 Increases 17 Percent Over Last Year
  .
• Volvo Caps 2000 With Sales Records
  .

• New Five Year/60,000 Mile Service Plan Announced By Oldsmobile
  .

• Hyundai Motor Company Moves to New Headquarters In Korea
  .

• Delphi to Become Battery Supplier To International Truck and Engine Corporation  
  .
• Visteon Corporation Wins Mach(R) Satellite Digital Radio Contract With Ford Motor Company

© 1998 - 2000 Copyright & 
Disclaimer
Automotive Intelligence,
www.autointell.com
All Rights Reserved .
For questions please contact
editor@autointell.com  

News of  January 02, 2001

Visteon Corporation Wins Mach(R) Satellite Digital Radio Contract With Ford Motor Company

Dearborn, Mich. - Visteon's MACH(R) Satellite Digital Radio To Receive Sirius Satellite Radio Broadcasts. Visteon Corporation announced that it has secured a contract to develop and supply its  MACH(R) Satellite Digital Audio Radio System for an undisclosed future Ford Motor Company vehicle.

"This business underscores our long-standing and strong relationship with  the automaker, as well as our expertise with automotive audio applications," said John Slosar, director of Visteon's North American and Asian Strategic  Business Unit within the corporation's Telematics/Multimedia business system.

To bring this technology to the vehicle, Visteon has established a strategic partnership with Sirius Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) to provide motorists with the ability to receive satellite radio broadcasts, including up  to 100 channels of digital-quality radio coast-to-coast throughout the  continental United States. Sirius will broadcast from its three orbiting  satellites to Visteon's MACH(R) Satellite Digital Audio Radio System 50  channels of commercial-free music in virtually every genre, and up to 50  channels of news, sports, talk, comedy and children's programming.

(Dec. 19, 2000)

[Homepage] [ News] [ Companies] [ Management] [ Publications] [ Events] [ Careers]
[Services] [Discussion] [ Guestbook] [ Search]