GM TO COLLABORATE IN LAUNCHING NEW UNIVERSITY AUTO CENTRE IN ITALY
October 1st, 2006
BY MARK ROWE
GENERAL Motors is to collaborate with a leading engineering university in Italy to establish a new auto research center. The project is expected to play a leading role in the way in which the automobile engines of the future are designed.
The center, which will be based in Turin, the heart of Italy's car manufacturing industry and home to Fiat and other manufacturers, is being part funded by GM. The cost of the center at the Polytechnic of Turin, which is a base for 26,000 students, is put at around Euro 100 million (US$125 million), with up to ...
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