Continental Wins Top Toyota Award

Toyota Motor Europe has presented its Supplier Award for Superior Performance in Project Management for 2005 to the Continental Automotive Systems Division. In doing so, Toyota paid tribute to the supplier’s performance in the development, production preparation and delivery of the brake system of the new Yaris subcompact car. This was the first time that Toyota transferred the system responsibility for a complete brake system to Continental Automotive Systems.

Dr. Karl-Thomas Neumann, President of Continental Automotive Systems and Member of the Executive Board of Continental AG accepted the highest level of award that Toyota presents to suppliers during the Annual Business Meeting of Toyota Motor Europe in Brussels.

Dr. Neumann said, “This award shows that we meet the standards of Toyota, a company whose name stands for top-notch quality all over the world.” He continued by saying that the fact
Continental Automotive Systems was so well able to meet the expectations of this demanding customer for the first time in the role of system supplier gave him great pride and pleasure.

The cooperation in Project Yaris started in 2002. The expanded responsibility of Continental Automotive Systems ultimately consisted of designing and integrating the complete brake system concurrent with the vehicle development process of the new
Yaris.

The development work itself was carried out on two continents. The hydraulic brake was developed in Frankfurt while the electronic brake was developed and tested in Japan utilising the Continental Automotive Systems testing grounds in Asahi and Mombetsu. Joint tests were also performed together with Toyota engineers in Europe.