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For Immediate Release

Written by: Susan Alderman, 260-481-6166

Media contact: Jay Harris, 260-481-0190

Navistar Donates Test Vehicles to IPFW

(Fort Wayne, Feb. 13, 2008) -- What happens to test vehicles used by Navistar's design engineers when they're finished testing? Most are scrapped, some are sold through the company's used truck division, and some find new life in a different environment. Navistar Corporation (aka International Truck and Engine) today (Feb. 13) exercised the third option and presented two of its test trucks to Indiana University—Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW). IPFW Chancellor Michael Wartell and Navistar Vice President of Global Product Creation, Steve Bruford drove the donated trucks to a news conference in the Ginsburg Building on the northeast campus of IPFW.

The low-mileage medium duty trucks are a 2005 Ford F-750, which Navistar builds for Ford in Mexico, and a 2002 International Truck 4400, built in Springfield, Ohio. Both vehicles were designed and engineered in Fort Wayne. The trucks will be used by IPFW's grounds department for tasks such as plowing snow and spreading salt in the winter, spreading mulch, carrying construction and maintenance supplies, and other duties the rest of the year.

For more information, contact Jay Harris, physical plant director, at 260-481-6832 or harrishj@ipfw.edu.

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