Visteon Promotes Engineering Excellence Through FutureTruck Competition

Visteon Promotes Engineering Excellence Through FutureTruck
Competition 


DEARBORN, Mich., June 15  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Visteon Corporation
(NYSE:VC) is proud to be a major sponsor of FutureTruck 2004, a program that
challenges teams of engineering students from 15 top North American
universities to re-engineer 2002 Ford Explorers to reduce emissions and achieve
at least a 25 percent improvement in fuel economy.

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Managed by the Argonne National Laboratory's Center for Transportation Research
and led by Ford Motor Co. and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy, FutureTruck helps develop hundreds of highly
skilled engineers.  The competition builds the students' awareness of
fuel-saving technologies and prepares them to lead the auto industry in the
21st Century.

The teams must achieve the fuel-economy and emission goals without sacrificing
the performance, utility, safety and affordability of the sport- utility
vehicles they are modifying.  The competing students are employing a variety of
technologies, including advanced propulsion systems, lightweight materials,
hybrid-electric designs and such alternative fuels as hydrogen, ethanol and
biodiesel.

After months of work, teams will take their vehicles to Ford's Michigan Proving
Ground in Romeo, Michigan, on June 15 and 16 for a comprehensive safety
evaluation, and a battery of static and dynamic testing.

An overall winner will be selected based on those tests.  The overall winner
will be named at an awards dinner on the evening of June 16.  In addition,
Visteon will give its own award to the team whose vehicle represents the most
innovative use of electronics. 

  The participating universities are:
  -- California Polytechnic State University
  -- Cornell University
  -- Georgia Institute of Technology
  -- Michigan Technological University
  -- Ohio State University
  -- Penn State University
  -- Texas Tech University
  -- University of Alberta
  -- University of California - Davis
  -- University of Idaho
  -- University of Maryland
  -- University of Tennessee
  -- University of Wisconsin
  -- Virginia Tech
  -- West Virginia University


Visteon Corporation is a leading full-service supplier that delivers
consumer-driven technology solutions to automotive manufacturers worldwide and
through multiple channels within the global automotive aftermarket.  Visteon
has about 72,000 employees and a global delivery system of more than 200
technical, manufacturing, sales and service facilities located in 25 countries.


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DATASOURCE: Visteon Corporation



CONTACT:  Robin Pannecouk, [phone],  , or

Greg Gardner, [phone],  , both of Visteon

Corporation



Web site:  http://www.visteon.com/ 

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