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The future of steering: when you've been designing, engineering and producing steering systems for more than 100 years, and anticipate doing so for the next century, you get a sense of the future of the technology.

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There are a couple ways to look at the "future" of the title. For one thing, there is the issue of the source of this information, Delphi Steering, an organization with sales on the order of $2.5-billion (2007) and a global footprint that includes 18 manufacturing plants and six regional engineering centers. It is a company with a rich heritage in steering, having invented hydraulic power steering more than 50 years ago, and having been in steering for another 50 years before that.

But here's where the "" comes in for Delphi Steering: On February 21, 2008, the the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved Delphi Corporation's request to sell its global steering and halfshaft business [i.e., Delphi Steering) to Platinum Equity. When I spoke with Bob Remenar, he was president of Delphi Steering and Ron Voigt was the director of its Steering Business Unit, and Ted Seeger the chief engineer of Electronic Steering Systems. At some point in the near--perhaps before you have read these words--the...

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