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Visteon Engine Induction System Helps Give Customer Truck 'Tough' Sound.

The sound of a vehicle has become an increasingly important part of its brand image. Automakers spend a great deal of time and money to match each vehicle segment with the perfect sound. (Logo: httpwww.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20001201/DEF008LOGO ) After months of market research, the Ford F-150

Publication: PR Newswire

Plastics Replace Metal in Truck Sound System.(Brief Article)

The redesign of speaker grilles for its new Vision by Mack highway tractor line called for the use of newer, better, and lighter materials offering equal or enhanced aesthetics and functionality compared with previously used materials. It also required that the resulting parts be easily produced,

Publication: Plastics Engineering

Manufacturer of truck safety system gets $5 million equity line - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

Safe Transportation Systems Inc., which has developed a mechanical system designed to prevent large trucks from jackknifing, has secured a $5 million equity line of credit with which it will set up marketing and sales of its product. The Bellingham company said it is able to draw from the

Publication: Puget Sound Business Journal

Sound check: making a vehicle sound good takes more than a good ear and lots of prototypes.(heavy-duty truck)

In this business, you're not only judged by how much noise you make, but how it sounds to the customer, says W. Jay Poole, director, Product Engineering, Tenneco (Lake Forest, IL; www.tenneco.com). Getting to that special sound used to take lots of experience, and almost as much trial-and-error

Publication: Automotive Design & Production

Indianapolis Firm Takes Sound Approach toward Truck Driver Safety.

Byline: Vic Caleca Feb. 7--Jim Buennagel leans over a bench in his lab at Transportation Safety Technologies and explains the intricate maze of little black boxes and wires he has stretched carefully along its length. This, he says, is Eagle Eye -- an ultrasonic sensor system that the Near-Eastside

Publication: The Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, Indiana) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Want more power and throaty sound from GM or Chevy 1500-series trucks? (Great Stuff).

Want more power and throaty sound from GM or Chevy 1500-series trucks? Spin Tech Performance Mufflers' new 2 1/2-in. X-Pipe exhaust system delivers on both counts. The system comes with your choice of side oval tips, round tips or dual right rear tips. The X-Pipe system starts at $449 directly from

Publication: Popular Mechanics