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 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.

 

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