(thumping)
- BC Racing is like the XXR of the suspension community,
because if you go out onto any forum,
it's an absolute war zone.
By the time I got done writing this script,
I feel like I had a deeper receding hairline
for the amount of stress I had
to go through to get this information.
So Bor-Chuann Enterprises was founded in Nantou in 1999.
Now, this is where it gets very confusing
just right out of the gate,
because BC Racing has different subsidiaries
and different divisions depending
on the region that you're in.
Don't be confused because there's another BC Racing
out there, but BC does not stand for Bob Conlan,
it stands for, whatever I just said, I don't even remember,
Bob Chuann, Bor-Chuann.
Originally Bor-Chuann just was founded
on making shock absorbers and auto parts,
because in Taiwan they needed to have
some sort of in to get into the automotive community
because in 1999 and just the late '90s,
the automotive industry was booming.
You had a lot of parts that people needed to make,
and Taiwan was coming into the international market
in terms of a part supplier at a relatively low cost.
So, BC was founded to essentially fill that gap.
It wasn't until the later years after BC
had started to get a little bit of money underneath them,
that they really started to dive
into more sophisticated suspension components.
BC kept making money until they had enough
in their wallet to eventually make their own product.
And in 2003 they did just that,
they introduced the BC Coilover kit,
which was at the time a pretty
revolutionary way to buy a coilover kit
at a relatively low cost.
And because they were made in Taiwan,
because they were made overseas,
you didn't have to worry about that high profit
or cost that you really would get
at any sort of local-made, mom-and-pop shop.
On top of that, a year later they eventually
came over to the United States of America,
and that's where BC really started to take off,
because you never want to underestimate
an American's ability to search for a product
at the lowest price possible because we're all cheap (beep).
Don't be fooled, just because something
was cost-effective doesn't mean that is was bad.
BC hit the market and they took off running.
("Take On Me" by a-ha)
And even in the early 2003s, 2004s,
there was a lot of competition in the suspension community,
but because BC hit the market at where they did,
they took off and nobody really knew how or why.
So, the company just continued to get bigger
and when they ended up just going from shock absorbers
to automotive parts, they started to get more
and more involved in just aftermarket suspension components
and coilover kits as a whole.
And just the trap in Indiana Jones,
the rock just kept rolling faster and bigger
and it just couldn't be stopped.
BC continued to just acquire other companies overseas
like warehousing and shipping and exporting companies
so that they continued to make products
that they could ship overseas and make a killing on.
Now, by 2008-ish there were about 50 million new dollar
Taiwan, Thailand, New Thailand dollar, what is it?
In 2008 they acquired up to 50 million in New Taiwan dollar.
Sounds like a lot, right?
It's $1.8 million.
Not so surprising now, is it?
BC had a lot of accreditation, accreditation,
there's way too many Cs and Ds in that word.
BC racing was accredited with a lot of awards
leading up to 2008 and to the current year,
they were held to the Golden Peak's award,
they were held to a whole bunch
of best companies in Taiwan award.
Just all sorts of stuff were happening for BC Racing
because they're making good products
and the company itself was well, not bad.
They were a good company to work for,
they held their employees very well,
and the just did what they had to do
to continue making as much money as possible
without being an (beep).
In fact, they were doing so good that in 2010
they just decided, why don't we make wheels too?
Damn, they had enough money to just
start their own forged wheel company.
I wish I was that cool.
In 2010 they launched BC Forged,
which was a company that specialized in two-piece wheels
and now, to this day, three-piece wheels.
You would be shocked at how long it took for me to realize
that BC Forged and BC Coilovers were the same company.
I'm not, I honestly wasn't even making that up,
I actually found that out this morning.
And this is where BC Racing's name really starts
to get difficult, because just like any other
entry-level or affordable option,
the company is held to a lot of criticism and speculation.
BC Racing makes a lot of components
for a lot of different vehicles, whether you're looking
at the BR series, or an older variant,
or you're looking for something for your M3.
Because the price was so affordable and just cost-efficient,
people just were really kind of, well,
(dramatic music)
scared.
People that have ran 'em, loved 'em,
people that have never ran 'em, hate them.
People that ran them and then upgraded
to something different were like, meh, whatever.
We believe that a lot of the speculation
and criticism becomes from the fact that BC Racing
does private label their suspension components,
meaning that they sell to other companies
that will relabel BC's work
and make it their own label.
Now, because of how the whole
private label company works,
you can be held to a little bit of criticism
because you just never know what other products
are associated with BC Racing,
so we don't know if it's Megan,
or if we don't know if it's Tane, we don't know who it is.
But at the same time, if you're gonna private label
to make a little extra cash,
you gotta expect there's gonna be some people
a little curious as to what other companies are running
that same exact coil or spring,
especially if you're looking at a price point
that BC Racing is at.
But for what BC makes, they are not a bad coilover,
they make affordable coilovers for whatcha need,
they have customizable spring rakes with Swift Springs,
you can with different things, different that,
customize this, customize that,
BC Racing does a good job.
And there's a reason that BC is probably
one of the most popular coilovers to date right now
when it comes to building, well, probably
your first or second car.
And that's not to say that they don't have higher-end
applications as well, 'cause they do, in fact,
they don't actually add any sort of Brotex
onto their higher end coilovers like an M3 or an M4 product,
like pretty much everybody else does.
BC Racing has some history, but they're not that old,
they're really only about 20 years old,
and a lot of their history stems from overseas.
And because they haven't really
hit that age of having heritage just yet,
you're not gonna see a lot of information out there.
The cool thing is is that their North American division
is extremely active and vocal in the automotive community.
You see them on forums, on Facebook,
you see them all over the place,
just integrating and talking to people
because that's what they know and do.
Their overseas stuff is pretty quiet but to have
a 40,000 square foot facility here in North America,
it seems like they're more of the voice
than the original BC Racing is.
I totally didn't just move this over here.
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