Recaro wont be down for breakfast

[Richard Cranium]

I have to sit down and try to process this.

Recaro, the Car World's Famous Seat Maker, Files for Bankruptcy​

The German company has long provided seats to many of the world's best-known automakers.

Recaro, the Car World's Famous Seat Maker, Files for Bankruptcy

The German company has long provided seats to many of the world's best-known automakers.

www.roadandtrack.com

 

[DeltaV]

Sell your long-time, well-recognized, and respected company to an LLC in the U.S.A. What could possibly go wrong???

Edit:
Actually, worse than I thought

Did Private Equity Push Recaro Into Bankruptcy? - The Autopian

 

[Budnicks]

B---nKanomics, strikes again...

seems like they were overpriced
for their demographic for a Loooooooong, Loooooooooooooong time

 

[chargervert]

Most modern cars come with really good seats from the factory these days.

 

[moparedtn]

Recaro is "factory" in a lot of new cars these days....well, they were anyways.

 

[JackR]

Their aerospace seat group is huge and has not made any money ever I think.

 

[Detective D]

I looked up price when I had my 94 Mustang back some years ago(sold to boy now). I did a full LOL at cost, WITHOUT brackets(not full brackets, brackets to adapt onto factory adjusters) and got some take outs from a guy at Iola for $100 instead. That was like 9 years ago now I think.

Thing is, with inflation and such over the last 20 years, they probably weren't gouging anyone. It probably cost that much to make something better then chinese "moto racer" seats all the kiddies buy for their fast and furious fart pipe ricer.

 

[Hey-O]

No one can compete with slave labor in China. If McDonald's could get a burger here from China in 5 minutes, they would cost $1.57 and that would end our new manufacturing sector replacement, burger flippers.... You know, our new career jobs.

 

[WileE]

I heard the chairman got ejected.

 

[Coelacanth]

I heard the chairman got ejected.

Recaro was making ejection seats too?

 

[YY1]

I found two Recaro seats (original mesh head restraint design) taken from an rx-7 in my dumpster.
Similar to these but with gray inserts and no script.
They are in surprisingly good shape.

 

[WileE]

Recaro was making ejection seats too?

Only for the "chair"man. ( please don't injure yourself from laughing too hard at the pun )

 

[DeltaV]

Looks like BBS wheels is insolvent

UPDATE: Recaro And BBS Could Soon Be Out Of Business



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