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Delphi Automotive Systems Elects Six New Directors

16 February 1999

Delphi Automotive Systems Elects Six New Directors

    TROY, Mich., Feb. 16 -- At the company's first board meeting
following the Initial Public Offering of 17.7 percent of its common stock,
Delphi Automotive Systems board of directors on February 10
elected six new directors.
    Each newly elected director was listed as a director nominee in the
February 4, 1998, prospectus relating to the Delphi stock offering.  Newly
elected board members include: Oscar De Paula Bernardes Neto, Virgis W.
Colbert, Shoichiro Irimajiri (effective April 1, 1999), Susan A. McLaughlin,
John D. Opie, and Roger S. Penske.  The new board members join previously
elected directors J.T. Battenberg III, J. Michael Losh, Harry J. Pearce, John
F. Smith, Jr. and Thomas H. Wyman.  Losh, Pearce, and Smith are currently
executive officers and/or directors of General Motors, and Wyman was a
director of General Motors until October, 1998.
    Members of the Delphi Board are divided into three classes.  After an
initial transition period, directors in each class will be selected to serve
for three-year terms and until their successors are elected and qualified.
Each year, the directors of one class will stand for elections as their terms
of office expire.
    At Wednesday's Board meeting, Battenberg, Colbert, Irimajiri, and
McLaughlin were designated Class I Directors, with their terms of office
expiring in 2000.  Bernardes Neto, Opie, and Penske were designated Class II
Directors, with their terms of office expiring in 2001.  Losh, Pearce, Smith,
and Wyman were designated Class III Directors, with their terms of office
expiring in 2002.  Wyman was designated Lead Independent Director.  In this
role, Wyman will serve as a liaison between the Board and members of
management and chairs and executive sessions of the board.
    Delphi Automotive Systems, with headquarters in Troy, Mich., USA, has more
than 200,000 employees and operates 169 wholly owned manufacturing sites, some
40 joint ventures and 27 technical centers in 36 countries.  Regional
headquarters are located in Paris, Tokyo and Sao Paulo.  Delphi can be found
on the Internet at http://www.delphiauto.com.