Yes that topic has been "hashed over" before!

BREMBO & ATE rotor castings are from Italy

Balo & Zimmermann are German castings.

Brembo makes a FEW MB OE applications like the W220 s-class. OTHER that that NONE of the others have ANY OE applications!

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