McLaren Performance Technologies Names Rick Gorski Vice President, Sales

    LIVONIA, Mich., June 5 McLaren Performance Technologies
announced today that it has appointed Richard (Rick) F. Gorski
to the position of Vice President, Sales.
    
    Gorski joins McLaren Performance Technologies with more than 30 years
experience in the automotive Tier 1 supply chain and performance aftermarket.

    Most recently, he served as Vice President and General Manager/VP
Operations Improvement for the Troy-based Textron Automotive Group.  Before
that, he was Chief Executive Officer of Irausa American Company, an
international supplier of automotive interior trim systems to the
transportation industry.

    Gorski also held a wide variety of managerial and sales positions over a
25 year period with ASC, Incorporated in Southgate, MI, where he ultimately
rose to the position of Vice President, Original Equipment Sales.  He began
his career at Hurst Performance Research.

    At McLaren Performance Technologies Gorski will report directly to Steven
Rossi, president and chief executive officer, and joins McLaren's senior
management circle.

    "The addition of a top-flight sales executive with deep roots in both the
original equipment and automotive supply community is a critical building
block as we continue to create the foundation for the McLaren Performance
Technologies growth offensive," said Steven Rossi, president and CEO.  "Rick's
demonstrated sales success combined with 30+ years of McLaren Performance
equity in the industry engineering community is a combination that will truly
allow us to take our customers from prototype to production in the powertrain
domain," Rossi continued.

    Gorski attended both the University of Oklahoma and Eastern Michigan
University, majoring in Business Administration.  He has been active in the
Society of Automotive Engineers, the Engineering Society of Detroit and the
American Society of Body Engineers.