Comfy interiors

[warren t claim]

The only good thing about the mk2 Avensis was that the seats fitted perfectly closely followed by the wingback sports seats that Ford briefly fitted to their sporting Fiestas and Escorts back in the early 90s.

[garethj]

I found the Volvo 740 very comfy, not only were the seats lovely but the armrest on the door was actually in a useful place for my elbow.  Apparently this is a very difficult trick to pull off as not many others have it.

[twosmoke300]

I've found older Vauxhall seats good and fit the larger gent very well . did 60k in a vectra b and was very impressed . later astra g was terrible .

However , the worst seats I have sat in were on my zx . Felt lovely for about 50 miles and then torture

[Skizzer]

Did someone mention French velour?

 

1976 Renault 16TL interior by Skizzer, on Flickr

 

These are the comfiest* seats I've ever sat in, anywhere, even after three hours (which is just as well because that's how long it takes a 1565cc Renault 16 with autobox to go up more or less any hill).  Also, fold-down armrest for sheer rive droite decadence.

 

But I reckon SD1 seats would be just as good if the squab foam was a bit less tired, and it has the considerable bonus of huge amounts of elbow room so you can just lounge around.  Joy.  And brown.

 

Untitled by Skizzer, on Flickr

 

Both of these have fabulous head rests too - not head restraints, mind you, proper head rests to ease back into.  Making those is definitely a lost art.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Sorry Barefoot - I'll concede that 'comfiest' is definitely not a word.  But I couldn't help myself.

[phil_lihp]

The 940's velour seats are pretty comfortable although I've yet to spend more than an hour or so at a time in them.  However, for long-distance comfort I have yet to find better than the Rover 220's seats, I could spend hours at a time in it and get out without feeling like I needed surgery, more than can be said for a lot of the modern cars I've done big mileages in recently.  

 

 

Rover might have been rubbish at keeping the oil inside the engine but they knew how to make interiors.

[Lukas]

I´ve never owned a car again with so perfectly shaped and ultra-comfy seats like my long-gone 99 Volvo S80 had. Great comfort, great safety-feeling, great driving position. Best seats in a car IMHO -> Volvo.

[Pillock]

E36 sports seats are quite nice, with the extending front bit. I've got long legs and these stopped me having to tilt the seat all the way back just to support my legs, which was ruining my back.

[plasticvandan]

 

comfy...ier than sitting on a pineapple,there must be at least 1 1/2" of foam in those seats

[danthecapriman]

These are comfortable but not for too long, after sitting in them for about an hour or so your arse starts to ache, and ive got a bad back aswell and there isnt a great deal of support or adjustment in them. Before I did my back in these seats never bothered me!

 

1974 Capri mk2.

 

More Volvo seats! this time from my old 340. Good but not as good as the 740.

[Cavcraft]

Mercedes 609D commercials had really comfy seats.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Don't forget the cushions in the back,I think they had little Audi logos embroidered on them

 

Also,when googling Audi 200 cushions, this came up

Looks like each one is an actual whole wolf.

[carlo]

I also got terrible back ache in the early style BX seats, probably not surprising when you look at them - they're actually concave at the back where the lumber support should be.  The later GTi/sports seats then went to the other extreme, there was almost too much lumber support.  Still maintain 305/505 are the best I've sat in, although those Volvo S60/S80 feel very good indeed.

[skattrd]

Another fan of the Volvo S80 seats here as well.

To me it was actually a comfier (and nicer car to drive) than the XM I bought shortly after selling it.

[xtriple]

Has anyone said V70 yet?

 

No?

 

Volvo V70 leather seats are the comfiest (sorry) seats known to mans (or womans) arse.

[brickwall]

I was reminiscing with dad and  another comfy one was a odds n sods Cavalier MK2 my dad had whilst waiting for a new  company Senator.  It was black and had no model number but the guys in the office assured my dad that this car was the opposite of a lemon as several guys had used it.

 

It  was sorta like a Sri, but it had lots of switches and stuff with mirror demisters and son on, but the seats were boss. They were really hard when you sat on them at first, but this was just part of the comfort and you wouldn't slide on them when dad was hooning. My dad could never find out what type of seats they were even after trying to find out with the fleet managers.

[Formula Autos]

A former colleague of mine had a Rover 600 with extremely comfy velour seats. Sitting in it in a car park was a pleasant experience, which was spolied by the first pothole we encountered. A potentailly comfy car, but with overly stiff suspension.

[laser wheels]

I think of all the cars I have owned personally the T72 Bluebird was the comfiest - once again a million mini-cabbers can't be wrong.

 

 

 

 

In my case it was a 1990 LX in blue with blue velour, blue dash, blue carpet... lovely.

[Tartan58]

Not mine but basically identical:

 

 

Believe it or not my MX5 is a wonderfully comfy place to be, snug without being claustrophobic. Quite happily drove it from Edinburgh to Le Mans last year and even after a full day's driving was in no hurry to get out. On the flip side these nice soft leather seats are useless on track days!

[phil_lihp]

Incidentally, having been in Skizzer's Peugeot 504 diesel taxi at Welshfest, I don't think I've ever been in a more comfortable car, especially sat in the back centre seat.  Big, squishy individual chairs, something the french obviously used to be very good at.

[Skizzer]

^ That was Brookjm's, but yes. 

 

Where is Brookjm, by the way?  He hasn't been on for ages.  Probably welding up drip rails.  [/thread drift]

[stormee]

Don't forget the cushions in the back,I think they had little Audi logos embroidered on them.

No.  But the cushions in the 100CD had CD imprinted.

[Noel Tidybeard]

at the opposite end of the scale I give you the puggit 406- how can a state car have to little leg room in the back in no other car have we had to stop so often to get out and make leg point in right direction and the front seat were crap as well

 

2011 polo is nothing to write home about neither

[r.welfare]

Saab 9-3 or Peugeot 405 for me.

[vulgalour]

I'm told that the interior of the Austin 3 litre is excellent for driver and passenger alike.

 

 

I am inclined to agree until I remember that the same people that tell me this also tell me that every car I've been most uncomfortable in is also excellent and that every car I've found comfortable they find incredibly horrible.  This puts me in the alarming position that one of my dream cars might actually be a back-wrecker.

[vulgalour]

This Scimitar interior looks incredibly inviting.  Would I be disappointed to park myself in these?  Buttons AND Velour AND vinyl, decadent luxury!

 

[PhilA]

Renault 21. If just for the headers that feel like resting your head against a huge marshmallow.

 

I'll vouch for Bluebird seats also, but I have to admit the most comfortable seats in any car I've owned were in my Impala. The build sheet has the "$2300 Comfort package interior" which have electrically adjustable all-leather seats.

Those you could climb into at 8am, drive 1800 miles and climb out without a single ache or pain. Fantastic car for traveling everywhere and not being noticed by anybody.

 

 

Phil

[406V6]

For my backside a leather seat can never been called comfortable. Cold in winter, hot in summer and constantly clenching various muscles to stop sliding around. In many cases quite a hard texture as well. No, a comfy interior has to be cloth, preferably nice chintzy velour. Some initial softness needed but with firmness to avoid sagging and sore muscles. The seats in my 406 are great, supporting just where needed.

 

It also has to look good with a feeling of brightness rather than the black doom that typically pervades German cars.

 

Lastly a properly comfy interior has to be accompanied by refinement from the moving bits. Low noise and vibration from the engine, tyres and exhaust. Proper bump absorption that comes from tall tyre profiles.  I drove a Vectra GSi for a day and had to stop driving it as the jarring suspension hurt my back.

[Guest rebel2cv]

I will not be using the word comfortable.

This is because the mother in law pronounces it cum-for-tub-le including the dashes.

This word is now ruined forever.

I would also point out that other AS staples are not proper words either. Chod and giffer for example.

That starion does indeed look comfy.

My nan does the same.

[sco14]

Excellent French seats.

 

 

[brickwall]

Cloth ftw