Gentex SmartBeam for Audi Models
Gentex‘SmartBeam automatic headlamp beam selector will be offered this spring on the Audi A4, A5 and Q7 in the UK and Europe in conjunction with Bi-Xenon headlamps.
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3M/Visteon’s “X-Wave” interior concept
Visteon and 3M have unveiled a new showcase for “X-Wave,” the global advanced technology collaboration launched at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year.
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HBPO receives Group Award from VW
HBPO, a joint venture between Hella, Behr and Plastic Omnium which is specialized on the front-end business, started to produce and deliver just-in-time for VW in the early nineties.
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Walter De Silva: Main priority is to rebuild a design language for VW Group.
Main brands of VW Group, Audi, Seat, Skoda, and VW, are developing 100 projects (including redesign and restyling projects) at the same time.
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Mercedes: Substantial Enlargement of Design Studio in California
Some 60 designers work at Irvice (California), Sindelfingen (Germany) and Yokohama Japan) on concepts that will keep Mercedes-Benz at the cutting edge of automotive developments for the next 50 years or more.
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Audi R8-LED headlamp is finally available
Some of the real innovations are announced so early, that by the time you can actually buy them they seem like ‘old hat’. This is what has happened, it seems, to the full LED headlamp for the Audi R8.
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Interview : Hector Fratty head of Driving Vision News.
Hector Fratty had a long and distinguished career at Va…
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Donald Stebbins New Visteon CEO
Visteon, the European-based supplier of automotive lighting and techological solutions, will promote Donald Stebbins to CEO on June 1, 2008.
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Joint Venture Mitsubishi-PSA
Japan's Mitsubishi and France's PSA/Peugeot-Citroen said that they would set up a joint venture in Russia to produce cars for the three brands starting in 2011.
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Most R&D Costs Spent by Suppliers
€68bn was spent on R&D costs in 2005, of which 31% were spent by the OEMs, 8% by engineering services and 61% by suppliers.
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