Colin Wood
Colin Wood Associate Editor
10/11/24 12:16 p.m.
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If you had $405,000,000 burning a hole in your pocket, what would you spend it on? 13,972 ND Miatas? 117 Ferrari F40s? How about an entire suspension company?

Brembo today signed an agreement to acquire a 100% stake in Öhlins Racing–the largest acquisition in its history, according to Brembo.

In addition to offering OEM and aftermarket suspension parts and widgets, …

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J.A. Ackley
J.A. Ackley Senior Editor
10/11/24 12:56 p.m.

This is an interesting acquisition on many levels. Two different worlds, but two brands noted for their performance.

AMiataCalledSteve
AMiataCalledSteve HalfDork
10/11/24 2:27 p.m.

The Ohlins US HQ is about 1 mile from me right now. I wonder if anything will change.

Coniglio Rampante
Coniglio Rampante GRM+ Memberand Reader
10/11/24 6:24 p.m.

Brembo's been busy acquiring various other companies.  I hope they manage it all well.

Pete. (l33t FS)
Pete. (l33t FS) GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
10/11/24 8:08 p.m.
J.A. Ackley said:

This is an interesting acquisition on many levels. Two different worlds, but two brands noted for their performance.

Öhlins also does, or did, suspension calibrations for OEMs.

 

At least, they did my car 20-odd years ago.  They didn't supply the dampers, just the calibrations.

AMiataCalledSteve
AMiataCalledSteve HalfDork
10/11/24 9:14 p.m.

They have a shake table in their building in Hendersonville NC. Lot's of race teams come here to use it too.

 

te72
te72 HalfDork
10/11/24 9:39 p.m.

Ohlins made the suspension on my Exocet. Definitely pleased with that. Never would have guessed they were worth nearly half a billion though... wow.

Ranger50
Ranger50 MegaDork
10/12/24 11:23 a.m.

This feels Holley-ish....

DavyZ
DavyZ Reader
10/12/24 3:42 p.m.
Coniglio Rampante said:

Brembo's been busy acquiring various other companies.  I hope they manage it all well.

Yep!

DavyZ
DavyZ Reader
10/12/24 3:43 p.m.
Ranger50 said:

This feels Holley-ish....

Indeed it does.  It would be interesting to find out who owns Brembo and then who owns that company and so on...

Pete. (l33t FS)
Pete. (l33t FS) GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
10/12/24 3:59 p.m.
Ranger50 said:

This feels Holley-ish....

Mr. Gasket says hi.

Jesse Ransom
Jesse Ransom GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
10/12/24 4:56 p.m.

Fingers crossed for, er, synergy or whatever, and not that other kind of stuff that can happen with mergers and acquisitions...

My former Aprilia with Brembo calipers and Ohlins forks is still my benchmark for how things should stop and damp. I really want to try that level of goodness in a car.

Caperix
Caperix Reader
10/12/24 5:25 p.m.

Top level motorcycle racing uses brembo & ohlins exclusively.   Especially for motorcycles I could see electronic suspension needing to talk to the brakes for the ride height & launch control they are using now, so everything under one roof could help there

J.A. Ackley
J.A. Ackley Senior Editor
10/14/24 9:20 a.m.
DavyZ said:
Ranger50 said:

This feels Holley-ish....

Indeed it does.  It would be interesting to find out who owns Brembo and then who owns that company and so on...

This is the man that owns most of Brembo: Alberto Bombassei - Alberto Bombassei (forbes.com). Technically, it's his family, but let's be real - he calls the shots.

Interestingly enough, they have a small stake in Pirelli, too.

fidelity101
fidelity101 UberDork
10/14/24 12:43 p.m.

great... more Italian tech support? not a fan its a shame because they seem so well supported on their own if you can afford the parts. 

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