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Recaro Seats and BBS Wheels bite the dust
With great sadness we have to report that the specialist automotive seat maker, Recaro Automotive, filed for bankruptcy in a German court in late July, 2024. At the same time, BBS Wheels went into administration.
The Recaro brand is widely recognised as the best quality seat in the automotive world and has been used in signature models, at some stage, by every car brand, including top-shelf supercars and thousands of racing cars.
At Historic Vehicles, we’ve been buying Recaro seats for 40 years and fitting them into a variety of old utes. We have Recaro Specialist bucket seats in our venerable LandCruiser 75 Series that have done around 300,000km and are still in as-new condition. Their predecessor Recaros – used successively in three HiLux and Rodeo utes – did more than a million kilometres!
Unfortunately, the wider Recaro Group sold Recaro Automotive to the US investment company Raven Acquisition LLC, in 2020 and no longer owns any shares in Recaro Automotive.
We asked the Australian Recaro distributors, Ideal Seat Company, for comment, but haven’t heard back.
BBS is the wheel supplier to many iconic car manufacturers and the exclusive provider of wheels to Formula One. BBS announced its insolvency on Friday 26 July, 2024 and has been placed into administration.
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