Delphi's Most Prolific Inventors Inducted Into Innovation Hall of Fame

    TROY, Mich., Sept. 7 Delphi Automotive Systems
will induct 108 of its most talented inventors into the company's prestigious
"Innovation Hall of Fame" during a ceremony tonight at the Royal Oak (Mich.)
Music Theatre.
    
    Induction into the hall is Delphi Automotive Systems' highest technical
honor.  With the addition of its newest members, Delphi's prestigious
Innovation Hall of Fame will include 371 members, which represents only a
small fraction of Delphi's more than 16,000 engineers, scientists and
technicians, and less than one percent of Delphi's workforce.

    Delphi began its Innovation Hall of Fame in 1995 and inducts new members
every two years.  Tonight's black-tie event is the fourth induction ceremony,
called "Delphi Night of Dreams," and will feature performances by Neil
Goldberg's Cirque.

    "The Cirque performers demonstrate that only by taking risks can true
progress be accomplished," said J. T. Battenberg III, Delphi chairman, chief
executive officer and president.  "The distinguished group of innovators that
we honor in this ceremony take outstanding risks with invention and creation.
Every day, they help move Delphi continuously forward, ensuring our long-term
success."

    In addition to the honor of gaining a place in the Innovation Hall of
Fame, recipients will receive a marble obelisk, the Egyptian symbol of power.
Also, their names and pictures will be featured on a silver wall plaque that
is displayed year-round at Delphi's World Headquarters and Customer Center in
Troy, Mich.

    In addition to the 108 inventors inducted, former Innovation Hall of Fame
inductees will receive special advanced Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum
awards that commemorate their extraordinary achievements.

    Thanks to the efforts of these honorees, Delphi brings technologies in
dynamics, propulsion, safety, thermal, electrical architecture, electronics
and mobile communication, among many other important innovations, to
automotive and other markets, and will launch approximately 350 new products
and/or processes in the next three years.  In addition, Delphi received 597
patents worldwide in 2000, which equates to more than two patents each working
day.  Delphi engineers submitted 2,481 invention disclosures in 2000, which
equates to 10 inventions each working day.