<PAGE>   1
                  AS FILED WITH THE COMMISSION ON SEPTEMBER 1, 1998
                                                   REGISTRATION NO. 333-________

================================================================================

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                             ----------------------
                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                           ---------------------------

                                LEAR CORPORATION
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)



              Delaware                                 13-3386776
     ------------------------------        ------------------------------------ 
    (State or other jurisdiction of        (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
     incorporation or organization)
          
                 
         21557 Telegraph Road                                     
         Southfield, Michigan                                     48034
         --------------------                                     ----- 
(Address of principal executive offices)                        (zip code)


     Lear Corporation Personal Savings Plan For Delphi Hourly-Rate Employees


                            (Full title of the Plan)
   --------------------------------------------------------------------------

                               Joseph F. McCarthy
                  Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel
                                Lear Corporation
                              21557 Telegraph Road
                           Southfield, Michigan 48034
                           --------------------------
                     (Name and address of agent for service)

                                 (810) 746-1500
          ------------------------------------------------------------
          (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

This Registration Statement shall become effective immediately upon filing with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, and sales of the registered securities
to participants in the 401(k) plan listed above will be effected pursuant to
purchases in the open market.

                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
      -------------------------------------------------------------------

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TITLE OF SECURITIES             AMOUNT TO BE       PROPOSED MAXIMUM OFFERING      PROPOSED MAXIMUM AGGREGATE     AMOUNT OF
TO BE REGISTERED (1)            REGISTERED (1)     PRICE PER SHARE (2)            OFFERING PRICE (2)             REGISTRATION FEE
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<S>                             <C>                <C>                            <C>                            <C>               
Common Stock, $.01 par value    65,000 shares      $45.50                         $2,957,500                     $872.47     

====================================================================================================================================

</TABLE>

(1)      In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933,
         this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate amount of 
         interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan 
         described herein.

(2)      Estimated solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee
         pursuant to Rule 457(h) on the basis of the average high and low prices
         reported for shares of the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange
         Composite Tape on August 28, 1998 which was $45.00.  


<PAGE>   2
                                     PART I.

                INFORMATION REQUIRED IN SECTION 10(A) PROSPECTUS


         The document(s) containing the information specified in Part I of Form
S-8 will be sent or given to participating employees as specified by Rule
428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").
These documents and the documents incorporated by reference into this
Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of this Registration
Statement, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements
of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.  INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

         Lear Corporation (the "Company") and the Lear Corporation Personal
Savings Plan For Delphi Hourly-Rate Employees (the "Plan") hereby incorporate
the following documents herein by reference:

         (a)   The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for year ended December
31, 1997;

         (b)   The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
March 28, 1998;

         (c)   The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
June 27, 1998; 

         (d)   The Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 30, 1998;

         (e)   The Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated August 26, 1998;

         (f)   All other reports filed by the Company and the Plan pursuant to
Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
"Exchange Act"), on or after December 31, 1995; and

         (g)   The description of the Company's Common Stock, $.01 par value,
contained in the Company's registration statement on Form 8-A, as amended by
Amendment No. 1 on Form 8-A/A filed on April 5, 1994, including any subsequent
amendment or any report or other filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "SEC") updating such description.

         In addition, all documents subsequently filed by the Company and the
Plan pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act after
the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all
securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all such
securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated herein by
reference and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

         Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement
contained herein or in any subsequently filed document which also is or is
deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such
statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed,
except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration
Statement.

ITEM 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

         Not Applicable.

ITEM 5.  INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

         None.


<PAGE>   3



ITEM 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

         The Company is a Delaware corporation. Reference is made to Section 145
of the Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended (the "GCL"), which provides
that a corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party or is
threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or
proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than
an action by or in the right of such corporation), by reason of the fact that
such person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation,
or is or was serving at its request in such capacity of another corporation or
business organization against expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments,
fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such
person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if such person acted
in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not
opposed to the best interest of the corporation, and, with respect to any
criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe that such
person's conduct was unlawful. A Delaware corporation may indemnify officers and
directors in any action by or in the right of a corporation under the same
conditions, except that no indemnification is permitted without judicial
approval if the officer or director is adjudged to be liable to the corporation.
Where an officer or director is successful on the merits or otherwise in the
defense of any action referred to above, the corporation must indemnify him
against the expenses (including attorneys' fees) that such officer or director
actually and reasonably incurred.

         Reference is also made to Section 102(b)(7) of the GCL, which permits a
corporation to provide in its certificate of incorporation that a director of
the corporation shall not be personally liable to the corporation or its
stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director,
except for liability (i) for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the
corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or
which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under
Section 174 of the GCL or (iv) for any transaction from which the director
derived an improper personal benefit.

         The certificate of incorporation of the Company provides for the
elimination of personal liability of a director for breach of fiduciary duty as
permitted by Section 102(b)(7) of the GCL and the by-laws of the Company provide
that the Company shall indemnify its directors and officers to the full extent
permitted by Section 145 of the GCL.

         The Company has directors and officers liability insurance that insures
the directors and officers of the Company against certain liabilities.

ITEM 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED

         Not Applicable.


ITEM 8.  EXHIBITS

         A list of exhibits is set forth on the Index to Exhibits.

         The Company hereby undertakes that it will submit or has submitted the
Plan and any amendment thereto to the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") in a
timely manner and has made or will make all changes required by the IRS in order
to qualify the Plan under Section 401 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended.



<PAGE>   4



ITEM 9.  UNDERTAKINGS

         (a)      The undersigned Company hereby undertakes:

                  (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are
         being made of the securities registered hereby, a post-effective
         amendment to this Registration Statement:

                           (i)   To include any prospectus required by Section 
                  10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

                           (ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or 
                  events arising after the effective date of this Registration
                  Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment
                  thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a
                  fundamental change in the information set forth in this
                  Registration Statement;

                           (iii) To include any material information with
                  respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed
                  in this Registration Statement or any material change to such
                  information in this Registration Statement;

         provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this
         section do not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-3, Form
         S-8 or Form F-3, and the information required to be included in a
         post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic
         reports filed with or furnished to the SEC by the Company pursuant to
         Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated
         by reference in this Registration Statement.

                  (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under
         the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed
         to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
         therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be
         deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

                  (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
         amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at
         the termination of the offering.

         (b) The undersigned Company hereby further undertakes that, for
purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of
the Company's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of the annual report of the
employee benefit plan pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

         (c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons
of the Company pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Company
has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against
public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore,
unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such
liabilities (other than the payment by the Company of expenses incurred or paid
by a director, officer or controlling person of the Company in the successful
defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer
or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the
Company will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled
by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the
question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as
expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication
of such issue.


<PAGE>   5

                                   SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Company
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Southfield, Michigan on the 31st day of August,
1998. 

                                       LEAR CORPORATION

                                       By: /s/  Kenneth L. Way
                                           --------------------------------
                                           Kenneth L. Way
                                           Chairman of the Board and
                                           Chief Executive Officer

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints Kenneth L. Way, Robert E. Rossiter and
James H. Vandenberghe and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone), his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in
any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective
amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all
exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC,
granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power
and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and
purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their substitutes, may
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration
Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the
dates indicated.




Signature                      Title                             Date

/s/ Kenneth L. Way             Chairman of the Board and         August 31, 1998
----------------------------   Chief Executive Officer
Kenneth L. Way                 (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Robert E. Rossiter         Director, President and Chief     August 31, 1998
----------------------------   Operating Officer --
Robert E. Rossiter             International Operations

/s/ James H. Vandenberghe      Director, President and Chief     August 31, 1998
----------------------------   Operating Officer -- North
James H. Vandenberghe          American Operations

/s/ Donald J. Stebbins         Senior Vice President and         August 31, 1998
----------------------------   Chief Financial Officer
Donald J. Stebbins             (Principal Financial and
                               Principal Accounting Officer)

/s/ Gian Andrea Botta          Director                          August 31, 1998
----------------------------
Gian Andrea Botta

/s/ Irma B. Elder              Director                          August 31, 1998
----------------------------
Irma B. Elder

/s/ Larry W. McCurdy           Director                          August 31, 1998
----------------------------
Larry W. McCurdy

/s/ Roy E. Parrott             Director                          August 31, 1998
----------------------------
Roy E. Parrott



<PAGE>   6


/s/  Robert W. Shower          Director                          August 31, 1998
----------------------------
Robert W. Shower

/s/ David P. Spalding          Director                          August 31, 1998
----------------------------
David P. Spalding

/s/ James A. Stern             Director                          August 31, 1998
----------------------------
James A. Stern


         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, the undersigned (or other persons who administer the Plan) have duly
caused this Registration Statement to be signed on their behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the City of Southfield, Michigan on
August  , 1998.


                                  LEAR CORPORATION PERSONAL SAVINGS PLAN FOR 
                                  DELPHI HOURLY-RATE EMPLOYEES

                                  By: Lear Corporation as Plan Administrator




                                  By: /s/ Michael Miller
                                     -----------------------------------------
                                  Name: Michael Miller
                                  Title: Secretary, Employee Benefits Committee




<PAGE>   7
                                  EXHIBIT INDEX


          EXHIBIT
          NUMBER                           DESCRIPTION
          -------                          -----------
         4.1          Form of certificate for the Company's Common Stock,
                      par value $.01 per share (filed as Exhibit 4.5 to the
                      Company's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No.
                      33-55783) and incorporated herein by reference)

         4.2          Lear Corporation Personal Savings Plan For Delphi
                      Hourly-Rate Employees

         23.1         Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP

         24.1         Powers of Attorney (included on the signature page hereof)
[{"type": "S-8", "sequence": "1", "description": "FORM S-8", "secsgml_size_bytes": 20075}]
{"company-data": {"conformed-name": "LEAR CORP /DE/", "cik": "0000842162", "assigned-sic": "2531", "irs-number": "133386776", "state-of-incorporation": "DE", "fiscal-year-end": "1231"}, "filing-values": {"form-type": "S-8", "act": "33", "file-number": "333-62647", "film-number": "98702236"}, "business-address": {"street1": "21557 TELEGRAPH RD", "city": "SOUTHFIELD", "state": "MI", "zip": "48034", "phone": "2487461500"}, "mail-address": {"street1": "21557 TELEGRAPH CORP", "city": "SOUTHFIELD", "state": "MI", "zip": "48034"}, "former-company": [{"former-conformed-name": "LEAR SEATING CORP", "date-changed": "19920703"}, {"former-conformed-name": "LEAR SIEGLER SEATING CORP", "date-changed": "19900723"}]}
1
                  AS FILED WITH THE COMMISSION ON SEPTEMBER 1, 1998
                                                   REGISTRATION NO. 333-________

================================================================================

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                             ----------------------
                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                           ---------------------------

                                LEAR CORPORATION
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

              Delaware                                 13-3386776
     ------------------------------        ------------------------------------ 
    (State or other jurisdiction of        (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
     incorporation or organization)
          
                 
         21557 Telegraph Road                                     
         Southfield, Michigan                                     48034
         --------------------                                     ----- 
(Address of principal executive offices)                        (zip code)

     Lear Corporation Personal Savings Plan For Delphi Hourly-Rate Employees

                            (Full title of the Plan)
   --------------------------------------------------------------------------

                               Joseph F. McCarthy
                  Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel
                                Lear Corporation
                              21557 Telegraph Road
                           Southfield, Michigan 48034
                           --------------------------
                     (Name and address of agent for service)

                                 (810) 746-1500
          ------------------------------------------------------------
          (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

This Registration Statement shall become effective immediately upon filing with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, and sales of the registered securities
to participants in the 401(k) plan listed above will be effected pursuant to
purchases in the open market.

                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
      -------------------------------------------------------------------
====================================================================================================================================
TITLE OF SECURITIES             AMOUNT TO BE       PROPOSED MAXIMUM OFFERING      PROPOSED MAXIMUM AGGREGATE     AMOUNT OF
TO BE REGISTERED (1)            REGISTERED (1)     PRICE PER SHARE (2)            OFFERING PRICE (2)             REGISTRATION FEE
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Stock, $.01 par value    65,000 shares      $45.50                         $2,957,500                     $872.47     

====================================================================================================================================
(1)      In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933,
         this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate amount of 
         interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan 
         described herein.

(2)      Estimated solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee
         pursuant to Rule 457(h) on the basis of the average high and low prices
         reported for shares of the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange
         Composite Tape on August 28, 1998 which was $45.00.
2
                                     PART I.

                INFORMATION REQUIRED IN SECTION 10(A) PROSPECTUS

         The document(s) containing the information specified in Part I of Form
S-8 will be sent or given to participating employees as specified by Rule
428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").
These documents and the documents incorporated by reference into this
Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of this Registration
Statement, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements
of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.  INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

         Lear Corporation (the "Company") and the Lear Corporation Personal
Savings Plan For Delphi Hourly-Rate Employees (the "Plan") hereby incorporate
the following documents herein by reference:

         (a)   The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for year ended December
31, 1997;

         (b)   The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
March 28, 1998;

         (c)   The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
June 27, 1998; 

         (d)   The Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 30, 1998;

         (e)   The Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated August 26, 1998;

         (f)   All other reports filed by the Company and the Plan pursuant to
Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
"Exchange Act"), on or after December 31, 1995; and

         (g)   The description of the Company's Common Stock, $.01 par value,
contained in the Company's registration statement on Form 8-A, as amended by
Amendment No. 1 on Form 8-A/A filed on April 5, 1994, including any subsequent
amendment or any report or other filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "SEC") updating such description.

         In addition, all documents subsequently filed by the Company and the
Plan pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act after
the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all
securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all such
securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated herein by
reference and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

         Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement
contained herein or in any subsequently filed document which also is or is
deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such
statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed,
except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration
Statement.

ITEM 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

         Not Applicable.

ITEM 5.  INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

         None.
3

ITEM 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

         The Company is a Delaware corporation. Reference is made to Section 145
of the Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended (the "GCL"), which provides
that a corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party or is
threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or
proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than
an action by or in the right of such corporation), by reason of the fact that
such person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation,
or is or was serving at its request in such capacity of another corporation or
business organization against expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments,
fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such
person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if such person acted
in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not
opposed to the best interest of the corporation, and, with respect to any
criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe that such
person's conduct was unlawful. A Delaware corporation may indemnify officers and
directors in any action by or in the right of a corporation under the same
conditions, except that no indemnification is permitted without judicial
approval if the officer or director is adjudged to be liable to the corporation.
Where an officer or director is successful on the merits or otherwise in the
defense of any action referred to above, the corporation must indemnify him
against the expenses (including attorneys' fees) that such officer or director
actually and reasonably incurred.

         Reference is also made to Section 102(b)(7) of the GCL, which permits a
corporation to provide in its certificate of incorporation that a director of
the corporation shall not be personally liable to the corporation or its
stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director,
except for liability (i) for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the
corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or
which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under
Section 174 of the GCL or (iv) for any transaction from which the director
derived an improper personal benefit.

         The certificate of incorporation of the Company provides for the
elimination of personal liability of a director for breach of fiduciary duty as
permitted by Section 102(b)(7) of the GCL and the by-laws of the Company provide
that the Company shall indemnify its directors and officers to the full extent
permitted by Section 145 of the GCL.

         The Company has directors and officers liability insurance that insures
the directors and officers of the Company against certain liabilities.

ITEM 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED

         Not Applicable.

ITEM 8.  EXHIBITS

         A list of exhibits is set forth on the Index to Exhibits.

         The Company hereby undertakes that it will submit or has submitted the
Plan and any amendment thereto to the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") in a
timely manner and has made or will make all changes required by the IRS in order
to qualify the Plan under Section 401 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended.
4

ITEM 9.  UNDERTAKINGS

         (a)      The undersigned Company hereby undertakes:

                  (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are
         being made of the securities registered hereby, a post-effective
         amendment to this Registration Statement:

                           (i)   To include any prospectus required by Section 
                  10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

                           (ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or 
                  events arising after the effective date of this Registration
                  Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment
                  thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a
                  fundamental change in the information set forth in this
                  Registration Statement;

                           (iii) To include any material information with
                  respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed
                  in this Registration Statement or any material change to such
                  information in this Registration Statement;

         provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this
         section do not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-3, Form
         S-8 or Form F-3, and the information required to be included in a
         post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic
         reports filed with or furnished to the SEC by the Company pursuant to
         Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated
         by reference in this Registration Statement.

                  (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under
         the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed
         to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
         therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be
         deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

                  (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
         amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at
         the termination of the offering.

         (b) The undersigned Company hereby further undertakes that, for
purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of
the Company's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of the annual report of the
employee benefit plan pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

         (c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons
of the Company pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Company
has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against
public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore,
unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such
liabilities (other than the payment by the Company of expenses incurred or paid
by a director, officer or controlling person of the Company in the successful
defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer
or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the
Company will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled
by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the
question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as
expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication
of such issue.
5

                                   SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Company
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Southfield, Michigan on the 31st day of August,
1998. 

                                       LEAR CORPORATION

                                       By: /s/  Kenneth L. Way
                                           --------------------------------
                                           Kenneth L. Way
                                           Chairman of the Board and
                                           Chief Executive Officer

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints Kenneth L. Way, Robert E. Rossiter and
James H. Vandenberghe and each of them (with full power to each of them to act
alone), his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in
any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective
amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all
exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC,
granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power
and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and
purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their substitutes, may
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration
Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the
dates indicated.

Signature                      Title                             Date

/s/ Kenneth L. Way             Chairman of the Board and         August 31, 1998
----------------------------   Chief Executive Officer
Kenneth L. Way                 (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Robert E. Rossiter         Director, President and Chief     August 31, 1998
----------------------------   Operating Officer --
Robert E. Rossiter             International Operations

/s/ James H. Vandenberghe      Director, President and Chief     August 31, 1998
----------------------------   Operating Officer -- North
James H. Vandenberghe          American Operations

/s/ Donald J. Stebbins         Senior Vice President and         August 31, 1998
----------------------------   Chief Financial Officer
Donald J. Stebbins             (Principal Financial and
                               Principal Accounting Officer)

/s/ Gian Andrea Botta          Director                          August 31, 1998
----------------------------
Gian Andrea Botta

/s/ Irma B. Elder              Director                          August 31, 1998
----------------------------
Irma B. Elder

/s/ Larry W. McCurdy           Director                          August 31, 1998
----------------------------
Larry W. McCurdy

/s/ Roy E. Parrott             Director                          August 31, 1998
----------------------------
Roy E. Parrott
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/s/  Robert W. Shower          Director                          August 31, 1998
----------------------------
Robert W. Shower

/s/ David P. Spalding          Director                          August 31, 1998
----------------------------
David P. Spalding

/s/ James A. Stern             Director                          August 31, 1998
----------------------------
James A. Stern

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, the undersigned (or other persons who administer the Plan) have duly
caused this Registration Statement to be signed on their behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the City of Southfield, Michigan on
August  , 1998.

                                  LEAR CORPORATION PERSONAL SAVINGS PLAN FOR 
                                  DELPHI HOURLY-RATE EMPLOYEES

                                  By: Lear Corporation as Plan Administrator

                                  By: /s/ Michael Miller
                                     -----------------------------------------
                                  Name: Michael Miller
                                  Title: Secretary, Employee Benefits Committee
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                                  EXHIBIT INDEX

          EXHIBIT
          NUMBER                           DESCRIPTION
          -------                          -----------
         4.1          Form of certificate for the Company's Common Stock,
                      par value $.01 per share (filed as Exhibit 4.5 to the
                      Company's Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No.
                      33-55783) and incorporated herein by reference)

         4.2          Lear Corporation Personal Savings Plan For Delphi
                      Hourly-Rate Employees

         23.1         Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP

         24.1         Powers of Attorney (included on the signature page hereof)