SAE International (www.sae.org) has an excellent tool for searching for automotive suppliers geographically or by component system: Worldwide Automotive Supplier Directory: (www.sae.org/servlets/esearch?dirtype=WWSD)
Crain Communications, through their Automotive News (www.autonews.com) and Automotive News Europe (http://europe.autonews.com) publications offers: 2002 Top 150 OEM parts suppliers to North America: www.autonews.com/images/dataCenter/1448.pdf Suppliers Index: http://europe.autonews.com/page.cms?pageId=142 Car Cutaways: www.autonews.com/feature.cms?featureId=15
Automotive Industries (www.ai-online.com) online has an alphabetical listing: Suppliers Index: www.ai-online.com/suppliers.asp
Ward's Automotive (http://wardsauto.com) supplier directory seems to be embarrassingly incomplete in some categories but is searchable by company name or product category: Supplier Directory: http://wardsauto.com/bg.asp?codeID=157476&siteID=26&magazineID=1004&parentID=3000
