Mach-E GT Brembo Brake decal?

[HuntingPudel]

Ok, next (possibly stupid) question: there are a lot of high end brands (I’m thinking in the audio world - Meridien, Mark Levinson, and so on. I’m not counting the mass market stuff like Sony and Bose) who brand products for auto manufacturers, but the product that is sold under their label by a major auto manufacturer is often inferior to products they design and engineer themselves (speakers with lower quality components, capable of handling less power and reproducing less range), amps with lower quality DSPs and power output systems that introduce more noise into the signal, lower quality connectors, and so on). Are the Brembo brakes on our cars Brembo in name only (I won’t point to the b&o sound system because I consider that more of a design statement than an example of audio performance - mind you, it sounds great - nots just not a “knock your socks off, mind-blowing system”.), or are they equivalent functionally to the high performance brakes on performance cars?

They are specifically designed for the MME and approved by Ford. Just like the B&O sound system in the MME. This means there are compromises to the system made for budgetary and other reasons.

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[Pushrods&Capacitors]

Ok, next (possibly stupid) question: there are a lot of high end brands (I’m thinking in the audio world - Meridien, Mark Levinson, and so on. I’m not counting the mass market stuff like Sony and Bose) who brand products for auto manufacturers, but the product that is sold under their label by a major auto manufacturer is often inferior to products they design and engineer themselves (speakers with lower quality components, capable of handling less power and reproducing less range), amps with lower quality DSPs and power output systems that introduce more noise into the signal, lower quality connectors, and so on). Are the Brembo brakes on our cars Brembo in name only (I won’t point to the b&o sound system because I consider that more of a design statement than an example of audio performance - mind you, it sounds great - nots just not a “knock your socks off, mind-blowing system”.), or are they equivalent functionally to the high performance brakes on performance cars?

Audio is a dicey analogy. Because as you probably know, you can have 2 different speakers, amps, preamps or whatever that both display similar frequency response from 20Hz-20KHz and yet they sound different regarding subjective measures like “air”, soundstage depth, and other audio enthusiast/audiophile terms.

The name Brembo has become synonymous with high performance braking systems lately but car guys/gals have known about them for a long time. Like Alcon, AP Racing, PBR, Wilwood et al. The main advantage of the MME Brembos is that they are an aluminum, fixed caliper with 4 pistons (2 opposing pistons per side). Some hi-performance vehicles use 6, 8, or 10 piston Brembos. GT coupe PP, Mach 1, Bullitt, GT-350/500 use 6-piston fronts. The fixed caliper design is superior in clamping force/evenness to a sliding caliper where the pistons are located on only one side of the caliper. They are also stronger and lighter than cast iron sliding calipers. In addition, pad and rotor wear are more even due to the pistons clamping from both sides. And it seems the MME Brembos are a new low-drag version called Flexira, I’d never heard of that before.

Another benefit to fixed calipers is that you can pop out a retainer bracket and guide pins and remove/replace your pads in about 15 minutes because the caliper remains mounted to the spindle and the rotor stays on, unless your rotors are bad of course. Great for track day pad swaps.
Here’s an interesting press release I found:

https://www.brembo.com/en/company/news/brembo-brakes-featured-on-mustang-mach-e-gt

 

[Mach1E]

They are specifically designed for the MME and approved by Ford. Just like the B&O sound system in the MME. This means there are compromises to the system made for budgetary and other reasons.

Definitely disagree.

While they won’t be the absolute best possible, Brembo makes fantastic brakes for production cars. They’ve earned the name.

No where even close to comparing to the crappy paper speakers made by B&O or Bose where they’re basically the cheapest “slightly better than the worst” speakers out there and literally ANY aftermarket speakers are better.

 

[Pushrods&Capacitors]

They are specifically designed for the MME and approved by Ford. Just like the B&O sound system in the MME. This means there are compromises to the system made for budgetary and other reasons.

The opposite is true. Rather than pulling an off the shelf caliper solution Ford/Brembo have tailored one specifically to the MME. Lower profile design, lighter weight and less drag as well. Good fixed calipers are always more costly than crappy little sliders ?. Those go on the back where they do way less work.

https://www.brembo.com/en/company/news/brembo-brakes-featured-on-mustang-mach-e-gt

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