Recaro automotive - bankruptcy & BBS insolvent for 5th time

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Double Trouble: Recaro and BBS File for Bankruptcy - Hagerty Media

Two beloved automotive suppliers—Recaro and BBS, both based in Germany—have filed for bankruptcy this week.
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Fingers crossed recaro pulls through, I've had recaros in every car I've owned (except the Almera as a run about) and wouldn't buy a car without them again... But I can't help but think there is something devious in the background at work with the recaro side of things, seems like possibly something to get around the unions and workers rights to try and downsize the workforce.

Same with BBS a month after they were taken over... Something seems odd
 
Calpol said:
Had a debate with someone on another social media platform who blamed the failure of Recaro on EVs.
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its defiantly EVs, liberal snow flakes or soya milk thats caused the global supply chain problems and crazy increases in material, labour and energy costs :D

edit: a real shame, but sure someone will get a bargain and snap up the brand names, will just have to keep an eye on the quality going forward
 
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adam cool dude said:
Was going to post exactly this. I am sure near enough the vast majority of drivers have sat in a Recaro seat at some point or another.

They seem like a real strong business from the outside. We have a Recaro childseat plus I think Recaro supply seats for planes, buses, everything.
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there's like 5 legs of recaro

the one "bankrupting" is the carseat/performance seat leg.

the child seats are still fine, the aero still fine etc..

recaro japan still fine and will continue producing seats.
 
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Shame to see this but I doubt Recaro seats will disappear.

I think I'm probably the only person I know that doesn't rate Recaro seats that highly.

I had SR5s in my Impreza - looked the business being reskinned in red - they gave me a dead right leg after about an hour. Similar thing happened with the stock Recaros in the Evo 9. They are quite similar style.

I bought red SPGs. Cost a fotune and took 3 months to be delivered and you need the waistline of a small child to fit in them.

I bought a ropey Pole to test fit in the Evo and it felt flimsy compared to the Sabelt Taurus I had at the time in my sim rig.

I have Corbeau Pro X in both Impreza and Evo and Revenge X in the sim rig and they seem far better quality to me. The Sabelt was the best seat I've ever had.
 
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EddScott said:
Shame to see this but I doubt Recaro seats will disappear.

I think I'm probably the only person I know that doesn't rate Recaro seats that highly.

I had SR5s in my Impreza - looked the business being reskinned in red - they gave me a dead right leg after about an hour. Similar thing happened with the stock Recaros in the Evo 9. They are quite similar style.

I bought red SPGs. Cost a fotune and took 3 months to be delivered and you need the waistline of a small child to fit in them.

I bought a ropey Pole to test fit in the Evo and it felt flimsy compared to the Sabelt Taurus I had at the time in my sim rig.

I have Corbeau Pro X in both Impreza and Evo and Revenge X in the sim rig and they seem far better quality to me. The Sabelt was the best seat I've ever had.
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I've not sat in a sabelt tbh, but I didn't like corbeau's when mates have had them and in the shop (when you used to be able to go to a shop and buy such equipment ) I always found the opposite, they supported well but not comfy and material seemed cheap.

But we are likely very different builds and require different things from our seats
 
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No apparently because they aren't sporty enough and the likes of Ford have had to bin Fiesta and Focus because of EVs.
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I won't post the almost hundreds of ev's that cater to the needs of sportiness.... I'm not sure that's a reason.

It may be that these companies are dictating prices to recaro, with the influx of cheaper Chinese units, they probably can't compete with the pricing.

Recaro automotive may well end up being a company that just rebrands china made components rather than make them in Germany. Keeping a core team in Germany to make bespoke seats for Motorsport.
 
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