DENSO Achieves Worldwide Production Milestone

                       200 Million Instrument Clusters

    TOKYO, July 3 DENSO Corporation celebrated the production
of its 200 millionth instrument cluster on July 2.  DENSO President and CEO
Hiromu Okabe and Managing Director Shigehiko Ito, who heads the company's
Electronic Systems Group, attended the celebration ceremony held at DENSO's
Takatana Instrument Cluster Plant in Anjo, Aichi, Japan.
    "We are very proud of all associates involved who made 200 million
clusters a reality.  At DENSO, we will continue to use advanced electronic
control technologies to develop new features in instrument clusters," Ito
said.  "Fuel consumption, mileage and route guidance functions will be
essential data indication functions needed by our customers in the future."
    DENSO has held the number one world market share in instrument cluster
production since 1988.  Its current world market share is 15 percent.  In
2000, DENSO produced 8.6 million instrument clusters at facilities in Japan,
the United States, Mexico, Korea, Australia, the Philippines and Thailand.
    DENSO began instrument cluster production in 1951.  Since then, DENSO
instrument cluster innovations have included development of the world's first
digital cluster in 1981 and the black-face or self-luminescent instrument
cluster in 1989.
    DENSO Corporation, a global automotive supplier of advanced technology,
systems and components, employs 85,000 people in 27 countries and regions.
Consolidated global sales for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2001 totaled
US$16.2 billion.  In North America, DENSO employs 13,000 people at 21
companies.