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Pre-Production Costs Related to Long-Term Supply Agreements - Additional Information (Detail) (USD $) In Millions, unless otherwise specified	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 28, 2013	Sep. 29, 2012
Pre Production Capitalized Costs and Recoveries Related to Long Term Supply Arrangements [Line Items]
Capitalized pre-production E&D costs	$ 139.8	$ 161.0
Capitalized pre-production tooling costs related to customer-owned tools	164.3	121.6
Cash collected related to E&D and tooling costs	$ 296.5	$ 209.4

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Amount of recoverable preproduction engineering and design costs related to long term supply agreements capitalized during the reporting period.

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Amount of recoverable preproduction tooling costs related to long term supply agreements capitalized during the reporting period.

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Cash recoveries of preproduction engineering, design and tooling costs incurred on behalf of a customer.

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