Cars move people – also emotionally. Fascination not only comes from beautiful designs and high performance engines. Also attracting attention are intelligent concepts whereby mobility and driving pleasure are combined in the future with fuel savings, conservation of resources and greater safety. ZF does not see these as being contradictory. Within the driveline and chassis technology sector, ZF has been an innovative pacemaker and reliable partner for automobile manufacturers for decades where the aim is to make driving more agile, safer and more efficient at the same time.

Proof of this is the new double clutch transmission for the Porsche 911. The joint development between Porsche and ZF provides greater comfort, greater driving dynamics and improved consumption figures. ZF Friedrichshafen AG is a worldwide leading automotive supplier for driveline and chassis technology with 123 plants located in 27 countries. ZF has about 60,000 employees. In 2009, ZF achieved sales totalling 9.4 billion euro. ZF ranks among the 10 biggest automotive suppliers worldwide. In order to continue to be successful with innovative products, ZF annually invests approximately five per cent of its turnover in research and development and is therefore one of the ten biggest companies applying for patents in Germany.