Sunday, August 7, 2011

RECARO Seat Short History

Manufacturer for car body since 1906 based in Kirchheim Unter Teck ,Stuttgart ,Germany.Wihelm Reutter was the founder.

  • Initially this company was involved in building limousine body in the 1920s.Volkwagen & Porsche were 2 of the major customers.
  •  But in 50s the company gone through a difficult time due the market down turn.After that took over by Porsche , it's converted to producing  vehicle seat.In 1969 was again sold to 3 new owners and one of them was Keiper.Keiper fully owned the company in 1983.
  • The RECARO seat has only become a global brand in the 90s.You could easily find RECARO products in automotive industry especially high performance luxury sport car manufacturer & also produces for wheelchair ,children safety seat , commercial aircraft seat in the cockpit , in certain trains , boats & even available in the world famous football club lounge. 
  • Johnson Control become the new owner of RECARO in 2010. 
      • Main & direct rival will only be SPARCO.

      Picture courtesy Of Wikipedia

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      Kin.





      6 comments:

      danielh said...

      Wow! didn't know that these Recaro brand has been around for qiute some times.And indeed some rich history on it, thanks for sharing!

      Kin said...

      Hi Daniel ,

      Yes indeed.This famous vehicle seat is truely a remarkable product that plays a very important rules in one of the car's key element.

      Thanks for your visit & hope to see you more often.

      Kin.

      komenda said...

      Hi Kin,
      Being part of the VW scene, I share the same liking to equipment of VW watercooled cars like the GTi Golf, GLI Jetta, etc. The early cars up to the 90's are equipped with BBS wheels and RECARO seats. I have a fondness for all of these :-)
      BTW even my Jetta's factory OEM non-sporty seats are made by Recaros.
      Greetz
      Erwin

      Kin said...

      Hi Erwin ,

      Yup! I certainly agree with what you said.
      German not only good in making cars but the seat as well.
      This RECARO seat can easily fit into any VW models.

      Thanks & c u :)

      Kin.

      Limo Hire said...

      wow,great information about manufacture of limo body or any other major cars.

      Kin said...

      Hi Hire Limo ,

      Thankyou so much for spending your valuable time to visit & browse my work.
      You are right about RECARO company , they were limosine car body manufacturer.

      Thanks ,

      Kin.