This Current Form
on 8-K and the Exhibits filed hereby contain certain
forward-looking statements about the Companys financial results
and estimates and business prospects within the meaning of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking
statements may be identified by words such as expects, intends,
anticipates, plans, projects, believes, seeks, targets,
forecasts, estimates, will or other words of similar meaning and
include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the outlook
for the Companys

future business,
prospects and financial performance; the industry outlook, our
backlog and our 2016 financial guidance. Forward-looking
statements are based on managements current expectations and
assumptions, which are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks
and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict.
Actual outcomes and results may differ materially due to global
political, economic, business, competitive, market, regulatory,
and other factors and risks, among them being: volatility in the
global economy impacting demand for new vehicles and our
products; a decline in vehicle production levels, particularly
with respect to platforms for which we are a significant
supplier, or the financial distress of any of our major
customers; cyclicality and seasonality in the light vehicle,
industrial and commercial vehicle markets; our significant
competition; our dependence on large-volume customers for current
and future sales; a reduction in outsourcing by our customers,
the loss or discontinuation of material production or programs,
or a failure to secure sufficient alternative programs; our
failure to offset continuing pressure from our customers to
reduce our prices; our inability to realize all of the sales
expected from awarded business or fully recover pre-production
costs; our failure to increase production capacity or
over-expanding our production in times of overcapacity; our
reliance on key machinery and tooling to manufacture components
for powertrain and safety-critical systems that cannot be easily
replicated; program launch difficulties; a disruption in our
supply or delivery chain which causes one or more of our
customers to halt production; the damage to or termination of our
relationships with key third-party suppliers; work stoppages or
production limitations at one or more of our customers
facilities; a catastrophic loss of one of our key manufacturing
facilities; failure to protect our know-how and intellectual
property; the disruption or harm to our business as a result of
any acquisitions or joint ventures we make; a significant
increase in the prices of raw materials and commodities we use;
our failure to maintain our cost structure; the incurrence of
significant costs if we close any of our manufacturing
facilities; potential significant costs at our facility in
Sandusky, Ohio; the incurrence of significant costs, liabilities,
and obligations as a result of environmental requirements and
other regulatory risks; extensive and growing governmental
regulations; the incurrence of material costs related to legal
proceedings; our inability to recruit and retain key personnel;
any failure to maintain satisfactory labor relations; pension and
other postretirement benefit obligations; risks related to our
global operations; competitive threats posed by global operations
and entering new markets; foreign exchange rate fluctuations; our
substantial indebtedness; our inability, or the inability of our
customers or our suppliers, to obtain and maintain sufficient
debt financing, including working capital lines; our exposure to
a number of different tax uncertainties; and the mix of profits
and losses in various jurisdictions adversely affecting our tax
rate.

For the reasons
described above, we caution you against relying on any
forward-looking statements, which should also be read in
conjunction with the other cautionary statements that are
included elsewhere in this Current Form on 8-K or the Exhibits
filed hereby and in our other public filings, including under the
heading Risk Factors in our filings that we make from time to
time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. You should not
consider any list of such factors to be an exhaustive statement
of all the risks, uncertainties, or potentially inaccurate
assumptions that could cause our current expectations or beliefs
to change. Further, any forward-looking statement speaks only as
of the date on which it is made, and we undertake no obligation
to update or revise any forward-looking statement to reflect
events or circumstances after the date on which the statement is
made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except
as otherwise may be required by law.

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