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December 3, 2010
Via EDGAR and Overnight Delivery
Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F Street, N.E., Mail Stop 3561
Washington, DC 20549
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Attention:
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Ms. Lyn Shenk |
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Re:
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Visteon Corporation
Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed on October 22, 2010
File No. 333-170104
Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2009
Filed on February 26, 2010
File No. 1-15827 |
Dear Ms. Shenk:
This letter is in response to your comment letter dated November 18, 2010 with respect to the
above-referenced filings. Your comments are reproduced below in bold italics, followed in each
case by the response of Visteon Corporation (the Company).
Form S-1 filed on October 22, 2010
Incorporation by Reference of Certain Documents, page iv
1. Please revise to incorporate by reference your Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30,
2010.
In response to your comment, we amended our Registration Statement on Form S-1 to incorporate by
reference our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2010.
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Unaudited Pro Forma Consolidated Financial Statements, page 8
Fresh Start Adjustments, page 9
2. Please revise to disclose the method you used to determine your reorganization value including
the specific assumptions used. Please refer to ASC 852-10-50-7(c) for further guidance.
In response to your comment, we have amended our Registration Statement on Form S-1 to disclose the
methods we used to determine our reorganization value, and the assumptions used including discount
rates, tax rates, the number of years for which cash flows are projected, and the method of
determining terminal value. Additionally we provided information regarding any sensitive
assumptions about which there is a reasonable possibility of the occurrence of a variation that
would significantly affect reorganization value and any other assumptions about anticipated
conditions that are expected to be different from current conditions, unless otherwise apparent.
We note that this information is also expected be included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the fiscal year ending December 31, 2010.
Pro Forma Financial Information, page 9
3. Please update and revise your Pro Forma Financial Statements as of and for the nine months
ended September 30, 2010.
In response to your comment, we have amended our Registration Statement on Form S-1 to provide
updated and revised Pro Forma Financial Statements as of and for the nine months ended September
30, 2010.
Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2009
Item 7. Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations
Results from Operations, page 31
4. We note your discussion and analysis of costs of sales is limited to the context of gross
margin, which does not address your expenses directly. We believe your gross margin disclosures
should be supplemented with, or preferably, replaced by a discussion and analysis of costs on a
stand-alone basis (not in the context of gross margin). Further, we believe such disclosure should
be more comprehensive than that currently presented and should include separate quantification and
discussion of changes in significant components of costs of sales, such as labor, materials, or
other components, to the extent material. In addition, where discussing changes in these
significant components, please provide total amounts in addition to the changes to provide context
to readers. We believe the use of tables will help in this regard.
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In response to your comment, we will expand our Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations in future quarterly and annual reports to include a discussion
and analysis of costs of sales, in the general form attached hereto as Annex A (using for
this purpose 2009 fiscal year results).
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We acknowledge the following:
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Should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the
filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect
to the filing; |
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The action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in
declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the Company from its full responsibility
for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and |
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The Company may not assert staff comments and the declaration of effectiveness as a
defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal
securities laws of the United States. |
If you have further questions regarding the matters discussed in this letter, you may contact any
of Peter M. Ziparo at (734) 710-5266, Paul Zier of Kirkland & Ellis LLP at (312) 862-2180, or me at
(734) 710-5236.
Very truly yours,
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/s/ Michael K. Sharnas
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Michael K. Sharnas |
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Vice President and General Counsel |
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Cc: Ms. Aamira Chaudhry
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Annex A
2009 Compared with 2008
Cost of Sales
Cost of sales for the year ended December 31, 2009 of $6,088 million decreased by $2,997 million
when compared to $9,085 million for the same period of 2008. The decrease in cost of sales included
$2,795 million related to product sales and $202 million related to services cost of sales.
Services cost of sales decreased during the year ended December 31, 2009 due to lower utilization
of the Companys services by ACH. Product cost of sales were lower as a percent of sales for the
year ended December 31, 2009 at 91% of sales as compared to 95% of sales for the year ended
December 31, 2008. The following table summarizes the significant components of the Companys
product cost of sales along with significant factors contributing to the decrease in costs of sales
during 2009 as compared to the prior year.
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Product Cost of Sales |
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Year Ended December 31 |
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2009 |
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2008 |
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Change |
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(Dollars in Millions) |
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Materials |
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3,847 |
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$ |
5,560 |
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Labor and overhead |
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1,237 |
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1,779 |
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(542 |
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Engineering, freight and duty |
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510 |
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701 |
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(191 |
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Depreciation |
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278 |
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323 |
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(45 |
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OPEB termination |
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(133 |
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(133 |
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Other |
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87 |
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258 |
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(171 |
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$ |
5,826 |
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8,621 |
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Volumes and product mix |
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(1,170 |
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Divestitures and closures |
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(483 |
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Currency |
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(396 |
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Manufacturing efficiencies and restructuring savings |
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(381 |
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Engineering, design and other cost reductions |
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(331 |
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Other |
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(34 |
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The decrease in product cost of sales of $2,795 million includes $1,170 million of lower
material and other variable costs associated with lower production volumes, $483 million related to
divestitures and closures, $396 million associated with currency and $381 million due to net
manufacturing efficiencies and restructuring savings. Product cost of sales also decreased by $331
million associated with engineering, design and other cost reductions, including $225 million of
net material cost savings and customer driven design changes and $106 million of lower product
engineering costs resulting from restructuring actions. Other decreases in product cost of sales of
$34 million include $133 million related to the termination of Company-paid benefits under certain
U.S. OPEB plans, partially offset by the non-recurrence of $63 million of OPEB and pension
curtailment and settlement gains in 2008, $12 million of higher accelerated depreciation and $24
million related to the non-recurrence of 2008 asset sales and legal settlements.
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