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Lear Corporation Inaugurates New Brazilian Plant

20 July 2000

Plant to Supply General Motors Corp.'s Gravatai Automotive Complex

    GRAVATAI, Brazil - Lear Corporation today announced the inauguration of a 
new facility in Gravatai, Rio Grande do Sul, which supplies automotive seats, 
and door and headliner modules for the Chevrolet Celta compact car produced by 
General Motors Corp. for the Brazilian market.

    Lear invested $15 million in the 63,000-square foot facility, which
employs 120 workers.  The Brazilian facility supports GM's Gravatai Automotive
Complex, which was designed to produce an affordable vehicle in the most
efficient way possible.

    The new Lear plant is located on a site adjacent to the GM facility and
shares a common infrastructure, security, common area utilities and employee
amenities such as banking services.  Lear supplies GM on a "just-in-time"
basis for immediate installation in the vehicle, and all of the material
handling for the GM assembly plant is coordinated by a logistics company, also
located on the Gravatai site.

    "Lear is proud to be among select suppliers chosen by GM to participate in
one of the world's most innovative assembly plants," said Kenneth L. Way, Lear
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.  "GM's decision to include Lear in the
Blue Macaw project, which is viewed as a model of efficiency, represents a
vote of confidence in our ability to design and produce quality interior
systems and support our customers anywhere in the world."

    Lear is one of 16 automotive suppliers selected by GM to provide sub-
assemblies for the Celta plant, which relies more heavily on outside suppliers
to do assembly work than traditional auto factories.  Key suppliers such as
Lear worked with GM from the conception of the vehicle to bring their best
ideas to the production process.  This differs from the typical development
procedure where the automaker designs the complete vehicle and its
specifications.

    Lear Corporation, a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Southfield,
Mich., USA, focuses on automotive interiors and electronics and is the world's
fifth-largest automotive supplier.  Sales in 1999 were $12.4 billion.  The
company's world-class products are designed, engineered and manufactured by
more than 120,000 employees in over 300 facilities located in 33 countries.