RECARO Case Study

For more than 50 years, RECARO is serving the automobile industry with its innovative and ergonomic seating solutions. As mentioned in the introduction, RECARO has a very strong background in developing the aftermarket seats for the different models ranging from passenger cars to the high end and sports models. The variety in the seating models for different vehicle models keep RECARO in leading position. RECARO has a wide variety of aftermarket seat models for different types of end customers and RECARO develops mainly three specific models which serve different purposes. The main three seat models from the RECARO are Ergonomic (Ergomed) models, Sports models and Motor sport model. These three models serve three different customer groups and are different from each other in design and functionality.
RECARO is well known for its ergonomic and comfort seat design and it has been developing aftermarket seats for the passenger cars with main focus on
Since the selected vehicle is an off-road vehicle for market expansion, it became clinical to select the best suitable seat. In the process of finding a best seat for the adaption into the POLARIS vehicle, all the requirements and packaging of the vehicle had been taken into consideration. Since POLARIS RZR is an off-road vehicle, topmost concern is regarding the weight of the seat. RECARO has different aftermarket seat models ranging in different weights and the selection process has started by eliminating the seats, whose weight is on the higher side. As mentioned earlier RECARO comfort seat models are slightly heavier than other two models because of their intended design and due to this RECARO comfort seat models haven’t considered the need for the adaptation. After eliminating comfort seat models, RECARO has two different sport models namely Sport and Motorsport which can be comfortably used in the off-road vehicles