In the global competitive environment, we use our increasing competence and performance to ensure that we can respond to future challenges with innovative solutions. In doing so, we think beyond the existing systems boundaries. Our strategic objective is to expand our position as technological leaders and, at the same time, to lead the way in terms of product and production costs on a global scale. We are systematically expanding our competence in our core business of the combustion engine and engine peripherals. The engine know-how of MAHLE Powertrain (formerly Cosworth Technology) is making a decisive contribution to these activities. As a global development partner, we offer our customers new, integrated, and cost-optimized solutions. Our product and process know-how is available globally through networked, inter-disciplinary knowledge management in all regions and locations. By expanding our research and development activities, we are strengthening the technological basis for dynamic development in the future. MAHLE now has seven research and development centers in Stuttgart, Northampton, Detroit (Farmington Hills and Novi), São Paulo, Tokyo and Shanghai. Approximately 2,300 development engineers and technicians worldwide are involved in fundamental research and ongoing development of the combustion engine. They work intensively on forward-looking new concepts, products, and systems, which lead to ecologically and economically sound solutions.

Doing better - benchmark for the future
Yesterday's progress is today's starting point for completely new developments, which we initiate and accelerate. With passion for engines. With fuel in our blood. And with technical know-how. Good is not enough; our aim is to do better: pioneering technological excellence with a high degree of efficiency and consistent quality worldwide, down to the last detail. Allowing our customers to fully exploit the potentials.

Nothing demonstrates our technological leadership in more impressive style than the successes achieved in international motorsports: Vehicles with MAHLE engine components reliably hit the top spots time and again - in Formula 1 (FIA), the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the World Rally Championship (WRC), the German Touring Masters (DTM), the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC), the Formula 3 Euroseries, the Formula 3 Cup, and in North America at the American Le Mans Series, (ALMS). At the Dakar Rally, the NASCAR Nextel Cup, NASCAR Craftsman Truck, NASCAR Busch, Grand American Rolex, World of Outlaw Sprint Car, and the USAR Pro Cup. Our know-how gained from motorsports is often subsequently used in the development of new series-produced automobiles.

The global objectives of today and tomorrow are what move us. With our entire systems competence, we help to make engines even more efficient: optimized for reduced fuel consumption and emissions, for more performance, for a longer service life. We are thus expanding our position as technological leaders by means of continual growth.