USA - Detroit, 11-14 April 2005, Stand 853

Cobra Automotive Technologies is taking part in the SAE 2005 World Congress, the window that hosts the most important players on the world car market each year in Detroit. Cobra Automotive Technologies considers the Detroit Congress, together with the IAA event in Frankfurt, the Salon de l’Auto in Paris, Automechanika (Frankfurt), Equip’Auto (Paris) and the Tokyo Motor Show to be an essential occasion for international visibility, intended as an opportunity for confirming the leading role which the Italian company already enjoys in the car and motorcycle security sector outside of Italy too.

Cobra has been present on international markets with its solutions and services aimed at combating vehicle theft and driver attacks and offering parking aid systems for more than thirty years. Cobra Automotive Technologies works with vehicle manufacturers worldwide and has achieved an important position in the European automotive market, recently adding the South East Asian and Japanese markets to its successes too.

By taking part in the  SAE 2005 World Congress, Cobra intends:

· to verify vehicle security market evolution trends worldwide and observe the global automotive market security strategies, while also widening its contacts;

· to present itself on the American market as a company with long-term experience and specific skills in the vehicle security market, with its proven success rate in developing personalised solutions to meet the needs of the most important European and Japanese car manufacturers;

· to offer its services to American manufacturers as a tested, trustworthy partner that can create reliable security solutions in full observance of the ISO TS 16949 quality standards required by the world automotive market

Products and services. Various ranges of electronic anti-theft devices that can ensure volumetric and perimeter protection and theft, attack, damage and sabotage dissuasion. A full range of car tracking services based on satellite technology for locating and recovering stolen vehicles. Front-Rear parking systems to help drivers with low speed manoeuvres. These are all the elements of the offer created in full observance of the standards dictated by the most important vehicle manufacturers worldwide, with maximum safety levels acknowledged by certification bodies and the largest insurance companies.

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Cobra Automotive Technologies is an Italian company based in Varese. European leader in the creation of electronic security solutions and remote security and management systems for all mobile assets, the company is a partner of all the main vehicle manufacturers in Eastern / Western Europe, America and Japan, both in designing original equipment installations (OE) and in the aftermarket sector. With more than thirty years’ experience, Cobra has direct operations in France, Germany and Italy and service all other key markets through a network of 40 independent organisations

In addition to its electronic anti-theft protection systems for cars Cobra has also developed a remote security solution that localises vehicles in the event of theft or attack on the driver and activates police intervention.

The group’s turnover in 2004 totalled 65. 1 million euro

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Contacts for the press     Katia Piraccini Pianeta Comunicazioni Tel.  +39 02 67382160 Fax:  +39 02 67382064 e-mail: katia@pianetacomunicazione.it   Antonella Riva Spolini Cobra Automotive Technologies Tel.  +39 0332 825 111 Fax:  +39 0332 222 005 e-mail: a.riva@cobra.it