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Brembo

Brembo is a manufacturer of automotive brake

Brake

A brake is a device for applying a force against the friction of the road, slowing or stopping the motion of a machine or vehicle, or alternatively a device to restrain it from starting to move again....
systems, especially for high-performance cars and motorcycle

Motorcycle

A motorcycle is a Single track, two-wheeled motor vehicle powered by an Motorcycle engine. Motorcycles vary considerably depending on the task for which they are designed, such as Touring motorcycle travel, navigating Naked bike, Cruiser , Motorcycle sport and Motorbike racing, or off-road conditions....
s. It was established in Bergamo

Bergamo

Bergamo is a town in Lombardy, Italy, about 40km northeast of Milan. The commune is home to circa 117,000 inhabitants. It is served by the Orio al Serio Airport, which also serves the Province of Bergamo, and to a lesser extent Milan....
, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
in 1961, and now operates worldwide.

Soon after the company was formed, it found itself specializing in disc brake

Disc brake

The disc brake or disk brake is a device for slowing or stopping the rotation of a wheel. A brake disc , usually made of cast iron or ceramic composites , is connected to the wheel and/or the axle....
s, which were exclusively imported from the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
at the time. They entered into a supply contract with Alfa Romeo

Alfa Romeo

Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italian automaker founded on 24 June 1910 in Milan. Alfa Romeo has been a part of the Fiat Group since 1986....
in 1964, and became the official supplier of brake components to Moto Guzzi

Moto Guzzi

Moto Guzzi, also known as Guzzi, is an Italy motorcycle manufacturer that has endured from the industry's infancy to its place today as the oldest European manufacturer in continuous motorcycle production....
in 1972.

In the 1980s, they began supplying BMW

BMW

, is an independent German automotive industry founded in 1916. It also produces BMW Motorrad, is the owner of the MINI brand and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars....
, Chrysler

Chrysler

Chrysler LLC is an American automobile manufacturer that has manufactured automobiles since 1925. From 1998 to 2007, Chrysler and its subsidiaries were part of the German based DaimlerChrysler ....
, Lancia

Lancia

Lancia Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italy automobile manufacturer founded in 1906 by Vincenzo Lancia and which became part of the Fiat in 1969. The company has a long history of producing distinctive cars and also has a strong rally heritage....
, Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of automobiles, buses, coach es, and trucks. It is currently a division of the parent company, Daimler AG , after previously being owned by Daimler-Benz....
, Nissan and Porsche

Porsche

Porsche SE or Porsche is a Germany automotive industry of luxury vehicle automobiles, which is majority-owned by the Porsche family and Pi?ch families....
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Brembo is a manufacturer of automotive brake

Brake

Motorcycle

Bergamo

Italy

Disc brake

United Kingdom

Alfa Romeo

Moto Guzzi

BMW

, is an independent German automotive industry founded in 1916. It also produces BMW Motorrad, is the owner of the MINI brand and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars....
, Chrysler

Chrysler

Lancia

Mercedes-Benz

Porsche

Porsche SE or Porsche is a Germany automotive industry of luxury vehicle automobiles, which is majority-owned by the Porsche family and Pi?ch families....
. They went public on the Milan Stock Exchange in 1995, and now sell over 1300 products worldwide.

The company is known for their aftermarket

Aftermarket

* Aftermarket , the addition of non-factory parts, accessories and upgrades to a motor vehicle.* After-market , any market where customers who buy one product or service are likely to buy a related, follow-on product....
automotive brake components, including calipers, drums/rotors, and brake lines. They are a leading provider of performance braking systems and components, and conduct research on braking systems. Brembo owns the foundries which produce their initial materials and supply the manufacturing plants. The company controls the whole production system from raw material through to distribution. Their quality assurance methods have been highly rated, and the company awarded QS9000

QS9000

QS9000 is a quality standardization developed by a joint effort of the "Big Three automobile manufacturers" automakers, General Motors, Chrysler and Ford Motor Company....
and ISO 9001 certifications.

Brembo brakes are standard equipment on supercar

Supercar

Supercar is a term generally used for high-end sports cars, whose performance is superior to that of its contemporaries. It has been defined specifically as "a very expensive, fast or powerful car with a centrally located engine", and stated in more general terms: "it must be very fast, with sporting handling to match", "it should be sleek an...
marque

Marque

A marque is a brand name, especially in the automobile industry. For example, Chevrolet and Pontiac are marques of their maker, General Motors Corporation ....
s such as Aston Martin

Aston Martin

Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars, based in Gaydon, Warwickshire. The company name is derived from the name of one of the company's founders, Lionel Martin, and from the Aston Hill hillclimbing near Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire...
, Audi

Audi

AUDI AG, is a Germany car manufacturer which produces cars under the Audi brand, . The name Audi is based on a latin translation of the last name of the founder August "Horch", itself the German word for ?hear." Another explanation for the origin of the name is as an acronym for ?Auto Union Deutschland Ingolstadt."...
, Ferrari

Ferrari

Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari Joint stock company....
, Maserati

Maserati

Maserati is an Italy manufacturer of automobile racing and sports cars, established on December 1, 1914, in Bologna. The company's headquarters are now in Modena, and its emblem is a trident....
, Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz

Pagani

Pagani Automobili S.p.A. is an Italy manufacturer of sports cars and carbon fibre. The company was founded in 1992 by Horacio Pagani, and is based in San Cesario sul Panaro, near Modena, Italy....
and Porsche

Porsche

Porsche SE or Porsche is a Germany automotive industry of luxury vehicle automobiles, which is majority-owned by the Porsche family and Pi?ch families....
cars, and on some high-end American sportcars such as the Ford GT

Ford GT

The Ford GT is a mid-engined sports car and is the world's 11th fastest production car. It was built by Ford Motor Company from 2003 to 2006. It began as a concept car designed in anticipation of Ford Motor Company centennial year and as part of its drive to showcase and revive its "heritage" names such as Ford Mustang and Ford Thunderbird....
, muscle cars like the Chevrolet Corvette

Chevrolet Corvette

The Chevrolet Corvette is a sports car that has been manufactured by General Motors since 1953. The car was originally designed by Harley Earl, and named by Myron Scott after the fast corvette....
and the Dodge Viper

Dodge Viper

The Dodge Viper is a V10 engine-powered sports car manufactured by the Dodge division of Chrysler LLC. Production of the two seat sports car began at New Mack Assembly in 1992 and moved to its current home at Conner Avenue Assembly in October 1995....
, and even factory performance compacts such as the Chevrolet Cobalt SS

Chevrolet Cobalt SS

The Chevrolet Cobalt SS is a sport compact high performance version of the Chevrolet Cobalt, featuring three Straight-4 GM Family II engine#Ecotec engines, built on the General Motors GM Delta platform....
. Other marques that have Brembo brakes (either standard or as an option) include Acura

Acura

Acura is the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Honda Motor Company. It primarily competes with Buick, Lexus and Infiniti among others in the luxury vehicle segment....
, Alfa Romeo

Alfa Romeo

Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italian automaker founded on 24 June 1910 in Milan. Alfa Romeo has been a part of the Fiat Group since 1986....
, BMW

BMW

, is an independent German automotive industry founded in 1916. It also produces BMW Motorrad, is the owner of the MINI brand and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars....
, Chrysler

Chrysler

Fiat

Fiat S.p.A. Fiat based cars are constructed all around the world?the largest concern outside Italy is in Brazil . It also has factories in Argentina and Poland....
, Hyundai

Hyundai Motor Company

The Hyundai Motor Company, a division of the Hyundai Kia Automotive Group, is South Korea?s largest and the world?s fifth largest automaker in terms of units sold per year....
, Jaguar

Jaguar

The jaguar, Panthera onca, is a New World Felidae and one of four "big cats" in the Panthera genus, along with the tiger, lion, and leopard of the Old World....
, Land Rover

Land Rover

Land Rover is an all-terrain vehicle and Multi Purpose Vehicle manufacturer, based in Solihull, West Midlands , England, now operated as part of the Jaguar Land Rover business owned by Tata Motors of India....
, Lexus

Lexus

is the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Toyota. First introduced in 1989 in the United States, where Lexus has become the highest-selling make of luxury car, today Lexus vehicles are available throughout the world....
, Mitsubishi

Mitsubishi

The , Mitsubishi Group of Companies, or Mitsubishi Companies is a Japanese Conglomerate consisting of a range of autonomous businesses which share the Mitsubishi brand, trademark and legacy....
, Nissan, Infiniti

Infiniti

Infiniti is the Luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. Infiniti sales officially started in November 8, 1989 in North America and its global operations have since grown to include Mexico, the Middle East, South Korea, Taiwan, Russia, Switzerland, China and Ukraine....
, Renault

Renault

Renault S.A. is a French automaker producing cars, vans, buses, tractors, and trucks. Due to its alliance with Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., it is currently the world's 4th largest automaker.It owns the Romanian automaker Dacia and the Korean automaker Renault Samsung Motors....
, SEAT

Seat

Seat can refer to:A place to sit, particularly the area one sits upon , See:* Chair* Car seat* Airline seat* Saddle, a type of seat used on the backs of animals, bicycles , etc....
, Subaru

Subaru

is the automaker division of Japanese transportation conglomerate Fuji Heavy Industries .Subaru is internationally known for their use of flat engine in most of their vehicles....
, Volkswagen

Volkswagen

Volkswagen Passenger Cars, also known as VW, is an automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany and is the original as well as the largest brand by sales volume within the Volkswagen Group....
and Volvo

Volvo Cars

Volvo Cars, or Volvo Personvagnar AB, is a Swedish automaker founded in 1927 in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden — and currently owned by Ford Motor Company....
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The following motorcycle manufacturers use Brembo brake systems: Aprilia, Bimota

Bimota

Bimota is a small, Italy manufacturer of custom and production motorcycles. It was founded in 1973 in Rimini, Italy by Bianchi , Morri and Massimo Tamburini....
, BMW

BMW motorcycles

BMW's motorcycle history began in 1921 when BMW commenced manufacturing engines for other companies. Motorcycle manufacturing now operates under the BMW Motorrad brand....
, Ducati, Harley-Davidson

Harley-Davidson

Harley-Davidson Motor Company is an United States manufacturer of motorcycles based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The company sells heavyweight motorcycles designed for cruising on the highway....
, Husqvarna

Husqvarna

Husqvarna was a military arsenal founded in 1689 to produce muskets for the Swedish Army.The company have since grown and split and the brand is used by several companies....
, IMZ-Ural

IMZ-Ural

IMZ - Irbitskiy Mototsikletniy Zavod is a Russian maker of heavy motorcycles. Many of its models also have sidecars.In 1940, the Soviet Union acquired the design and production techniques for BMW R 71 motorcycles and sidecars....
, KTM

KTM

KTM Sportmotorcycle Aktiengesellschaft is an Austrian motorcycle manufacturer.The company was founded in 1934 by engineer Hans Trunkenpolz in Mattighofen....
, Moto Guzzi

Moto Guzzi

MV Agusta

MV Agusta is a motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1945 near Milan in Cascina Costa, Italy....
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The headquarters are still located in Bergamo

Bergamo

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
, China

China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
, United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
, Spain

Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Motorsport

Brembo brakes are also used by a variety of Formula One

Formula One

Formula One, abbreviated to F1, and currently officially referred as the FIA Formula One World Championship is the highest class of auto racing sanctioned by the F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile ....
teams including Ferrari

Scuderia Ferrari

Scuderia Ferrari is the name for the Gestione Sportiva, the division of the Ferrari automobile company concerned with racing. Though the Scuderia and Ferrari Corse Clienti continue to manage the racing activities of numerous Ferrari customers and private teams, Ferrari's racing division has completely devoted its attention and funding to its...
, and the majority of MotoGP teams use Brembo brakes.

Brembo

Motorsport

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