Superior Industries Named General Motors Supplier of the Year for Third Straight Year

    VAN NUYS, Calif.--April 14, 2003--Superior Industries International, Inc. has been named a General Motors Supplier of the Year for the third consecutive year, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Louis Borick announced today. The award was presented during ceremonies in Miami on April 12th.
    "Superior is a role model for the type of supplier that GM expects to rely on as we work to increase market share," said Bo Andersson, vice president, GM Worldwide Purchasing Production Control & Logistics. "Superior's performance and contributions have been critical in helping GM to become the industry's low-cost producer of high-quality vehicles."
    "We won this prestigious award by consistently meeting GM's toughest design and engineering specifications, cost requirements, and delivery schedules. That's why Superior continues to win new and replacement aluminum wheel programs under our unprecedented long term supply agreement with GM. As this award demonstrates, Superior's relationship with this important customer continues to grow. It's a relationship that has contributed significantly to the success that both of our companies enjoy today, and the foundation for even greater success in the years to come," Borick said.

    GM Supplier of the Year Award

    The GM Supplier of the Year award began as a global program in 1992. Award winners are selected by a global team of executives from purchasing, engineering, manufacturing and logistics who base their decisions on supplier performance in quality, service, technology and price. This year, General Motors honored 70 suppliers for their excellence throughout 2002.

    About Superior Industries

    Superior supplies aluminum wheels and other aluminum automotive components to Ford, General Motors, DaimlerChrysler, Audi, BMW, Isuzu, Land Rover, Mazda, MG Rover, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Subaru, Toyota and Volkswagen. For additional information, visit Superior's Web site at www.supind.com.

    Forward-Looking Statements

    This press release contains statements that are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the company's business based, in part, on assumptions made by management. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements due to numerous factors and risks discussed from time to time in the company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports. In addition, such statements could be affected by general industry and market conditions and growth rates, and general domestic and international economic conditions. Such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and the company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release.