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General Motors COAST-Equipped Vehicle Returns to Proving Grounds for Further Development

26 July 2000

General Motors COAST-Equipped Vehicle Returns to Proving Grounds for Further Development

    SAN DIEGO - AimRite Holdings Corporation has announced that its COAST-equipped General Motors Tahoe vehicle will be shipped to the General Motors Proving Grounds in Milford, Michigan for Ride Metric Testing. This follows the visit of GM personnel to the AimRite facility in Solana Beach on July 25, 2000. Upon successful completion of the Ride Metric Testing, AimRite will work with an assigned GM team consisting of engineering, development and purchasing components to configure potential applications of the technology. AimRite was provided the Tahoe by General Motors for initial installation of a COAST system and preliminary ride work.

    Director of Sales and Marketing Lonnie Woods explained that the Ride Metric Testing is vital in the highly competitive Sport Utility Vehicle industry due to the fact that imported SUVs typically use passenger car chassis and domestic SUVs use truck chassis. The Ride Metric Testing consists of the instrumentation of the vehicle and measuring the amplitude of forces that come through the seat, the steering wheel, the back of the seat, the throttle, the pedals and the floor boards. Its value consists in the elimination of the subjective "feel" of the ride by providing objective data for comparison purposes and evaluation.

    "We look forward to working the General Motors team in Michigan," Mr. Woods stated. "General Motors has consistently sought to incorporate the latest technological applications in its products and we are pleased to be taking this next positive step toward this goal."

    Mary Kay Koldeway-Coleman, President of the Company, stated, "To have achieved this significant stage is a tribute to all the people who have worked on COAST through the years and the stockholders who have supported us."

    COAST (Computer Optimized Adaptive Suspension Technology) is a revolutionary suspension control system that uses Variable Constant Force (TM) to achieve unparalleled ride luxury, safety and performance for virtually all automotive, truck, bus and RV applications. COAST accomplishes all this by eliminating conventional shocks and anti-sway bars and replaces them with simple, but patented and powerful hydraulic suspension control units. The units incorporate extremely powerful and sophisticated patented software to make precision adjustments at each wheel 400 times per second. The result is an electronically controlled suspension system that can optimally control up to nine dynamic areas of suspension performance; including roll, pitch, body motions, wheel motions and bottoming/topping out. AimRite believes that COAST is the most powerful and flexible suspension control system ever developed. And with little or no direct competition, COAST will be sought after well into the next millennium.