ABOUT US
Some people buy cars. Scott Bradley lives them.
His relationship with cars didn't start with ownership — it started with work. As a teenager in New Zealand, Scott spent school holidays making money the hard way: buying wrecks, welding in new body panels, mixing litres of bog, blocking and painting cars in a workshop. New Zealand cars were expensive — panels rusted, accidents happened, and a teenager with the skills to restore them could make some money by fixing them.
By the time Scott was old enough to own cars himself, he already understood paint from the inside out. He knew what good preparation looked like, what poor preparation cost, and exactly how much human effort goes into a finish worth protecting. That knowledge never left him.
His garage history tells the rest of the story better than any biography could.
A Triumph TR6 and an MGB — British classics that taught him that a car's soul matters as much as its performance. A Subaru WRX, because there are some cars you simply have to own when Possum Bourne is your hero, there was never really a choice. Audi S3, S4, S8, RS4 and RS6, because practicality and performance shouldn't be mutually exclusive. A TVR Tuscan, because occasionally you need a car that reminds you that driving is not supposed to be safe or sensible.
And then the Porsches.
A 964. A 996 C4S. A 997 Turbo. A 997.2 Turbo. A 991.1 GT3RS — the purist's Porsche, the track weapon, the car Porsche builds for people who actually drive. And currently, a 991.2 Turbo S.
Ten visits to Le Mans since 1999. Not as a corporate guest — as a pilgrim. The kind of person for whom the Circuit de la Sarthe at 2am on a June Saturday, standing at the Porsche Curves as a 963 goes past at full song, is as close to a religious experience as cars get.
Back in New Zealand, Scott was a member of the Porsche Club race committee and helped establish the Boxster Class F race series from scratch during lockdown — a series built on a simple idea: identical cars, maximum budget of $30,000, racing decided entirely by driver skill rather than the size of your chequebook. He bought a 2001 Boxster 2.7 with 225,000km on the clock for $9,000, had it race-prepared to Class F specification, and competed for three seasons.
He wrote about the journey with the same honesty he brings to everything — the nerves before his first race at Pukekohe, the coaching sessions at Taupo, the mechanical dramas, the friendships built over shared grid time. In the final race of the series, in torrential rain at Hampton Downs, he won Class F overall — and came third across all classes, including the GT3s. He described it afterward as feeling like he had beaten Lewis Hamilton to win F1. His daughters were watching from the pit wall. He had promised them a trip to Taupo if he won.
The series Scott helped create grew into New Zealand's largest Porsche Boxster race team, with more than 20 cars competing under LM Racing.
Someone who has spent teenage summers welding body panels and mixing paint — who has raced a Boxster in the rain at Hampton Downs and stood at Le Mans ten times — doesn't want a car care product that just looks good on a shelf. They want something that actually works. On a GT3RS on a track day. On a classic TR6 in British rain. On a daily driver facing an Irish winter.
That's why Hermosa exists.
SIX YEARS IN THE MAKING
Hermosa didn't come from a gap in the market analysis. It came from frustration — the same frustration any serious car person feels when the products available don't match the standard you hold yourself to.
Six years of testing ceramic coating formulations across New Zealand. Dozens of products evaluated, reformulated, and rejected. Products that performed brilliantly in controlled conditions and fell apart in a South Island winter. Coatings that looked extraordinary on application and lost their hydrophobicity within a season. Formulations that couldn't handle New Zealand's extreme UV — some of the most intense on the planet, thanks to the thinned ozone layer above the southern hemisphere.
New Zealand's climate is, in coating terms, one of the most demanding test environments in the world. Snow and ice on the South Island and central North Island. Coastal salt air on both coasts. Volcanic road surfaces. Extreme UV. Significant seasonal temperature variation. If a coating works in New Zealand over time, it works.
The graphene ceramic formula that became the Hermosa coating is the one that passed every test. Not in a laboratory — on real cars, driven daily, in conditions that genuinely stretch a coating's limits. The five-year durability claim isn't a number chosen for marketing. It's the result of six years of real-world evidence.
FROM AUCKLAND TO DUBLIN
In New Zealand in the 1980s and 90s, cars weren't disposable. You kept them going. You fixed them, painted them, welded them back together. You looked after what you had because replacing it wasn't an option — not when a decent car represented months of wages.
Scott moved to Dublin with his Kiwi/Irish wife and discovered that Ireland understood this completely. VRT makes Irish cars among the most expensive in Europe. The same mentality that drove a New Zealand teenager to spend his school holidays in a workshop — make it last, protect what you've got, take pride in what you own — is alive and well in Ireland. It's in the classic car rallies on country roads in Clare. It's in the modified scene at Mondello. It's in every Irish driver who washes their car on a Sunday morning because they give a damn.
Hermosa was built for both countries. Same values. Same weather. Same roads that will destroy your paint if you let them.
The product that survived six years of New Zealand winters, UV, and coastal salt air is, if anything, overpowered for Irish conditions. But overpowered is exactly right. Irish roads, Irish rain, and the Irish salt season from October to March deserve a coating that was built for worse.
WHAT WE MAKE
Every product in the Hermosa range exists because it solves a specific problem that Irish drivers face.
The Graphene Ceramic Coating is the foundation — a 10H graphene-enhanced ceramic that bonds permanently to your clear coat and provides up to five years of protection against the rain, road salt, acid rain, and coastal air that define Irish driving conditions.
The Ceramic Glass Cleaner and Coating addresses a problem most drivers don't think about until they're dealing with it on a dark, wet November morning — road film on glass that scatters oncoming headlights across your windscreen. It cleans the film and leaves hydrophobic ceramic protection behind. Added to your washer fluid reservoir, it reapplies protection automatically every time your wipers activate. Your wipers don't erode the coating. They become part of the reapplication process.
The Ceramic Shampoo, Iron Remover, Tar Remover, Wheel Cleaner, Ceramic Spray, Water Spot Remover, Tyre Shine, Interior Detailer, Engine Cleaner, Leather Protection, and VRP complete the system — each one chosen because it addresses a specific part of the maintenance routine that Irish conditions demand.
Professional-grade results. No experience needed. Around 15 minutes for the products that matter most.
WHERE WE ARE
Hermosa HQ Limited is based in Dublin 2. We ship across Ireland and to the UK, from a single warehouse. Every order is packed by hand. Every parcel that leaves our door goes out with a personal note — because that's how we'd want to receive something we cared about.
Scott lives in Dublin 6. The 991.2 Turbo S is in the garage.
It's coated, obviously.
support@hermosahq.ie
www.hermosahq.ie
Hermosa HQ Limited,
20 Harcourt Street,
Dublin 2, D02 H364
