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Borg-Warner Automotive Names John Lauer to Strategy Post

30 September 1997

Borg-Warner Automotive Names John Lauer to Strategy Post

    CHICAGO, Sept. 30 -- Borg-Warner Automotive, Inc.
has named John C. Lauer to the newly created position of Vice President - BWA
Strategy, effective October 1, 1997.
    The position reports to John F. Fiedler, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, who commented:  "The top managers of Borg-Warner Automotive are
actively engaged in the development of strategic initiatives to drive growth
and leverage our leadership in powertrain products well into the next century.
John will have primary responsibility for managing the overall process that
will define the company's direction.  He will work closely with our executive
and strategy teams, and will develop an overall framework from their
collective output.  John's knowledge and understanding of the global
automotive industry, customers, competitors and markets will serve Borg-Warner
Automotive well in this new and important assignment."
    John Lauer was most recently Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the
company's Air/Fluid Systems operating group.  He has spent his career in the
automotive business working for Holley Automotive.  Borg-Warner Automotive
acquired that business along with other Coltec units in 1996.  John has held
various management positions with Holley, including ones in process
engineering, manufacturing planning, cost estimating and sales and marketing.
He has a BA degree in Business Administration from Defiance College, Ohio.
    Chicago-based Borg-Warner Automotive, Inc. is a product leader in highly
engineered components and systems primarily for automotive drivetrain
applications.  The company operates manufacturing facilities in 12 countries
serving the North American, European and Asian automotive markets.

SOURCE  Borg-Warner Automotive, Inc.