Ck this out:

 

Looks like a extra large child restraint seat.

 

reason for car mag's cry of bad seats? maybe because the car itself can go, stop, turn and overall handle very well with only some small points holding it back. in their case, seats. but of course if they didn't have seats to complain about it would be the "all important" radio buttons, or door handles, etc.

it's not bad for what it is and as has been stated above, most are not used as canyon carvers, or raced. if raced, most cars would need more appropriate seats. mine are used for driving and enjoying. some of my enjoyment is in curves but possibly not a long enough time period for different seats.

to design optional seats or base seats that meet the race proven requirements might cost a little more. with the price of the car continuing upwards and sales going downwards, I don't think it's going to happen.

but the head of design did say the interior was going to get a rework in the c7....and that's got to be a good thing.

I can't help but notice that, except for a couple of designers, not many have been able to design and build a seat for the c6 that is shall we say, worthy. costly, yes. worthy? well, maybe.

 

The same seats have been in the C6 for 7 years (model years) and the mags just got around to complaining about the seats. Why? Because they can't complain about anything else. New seats would mean new crash tests. They also have to be air bag compatiable and able to fit most people out there.

GT-R is similiar in price but the car is butt ugly, inside and out. 911 is nice but starts at almost ZR1 price, will be ZR1 price if it has the same options as a standard ZR1.

I'm not crazy about the wear of the seats but I think they are fine otherwise.

What is amazing is that the mags complain about the Corvette seats but pretty much nothing else and it still loses, except on the track where the seats seem to support them pretty good.

 

Outstanding post.

The funny thing is, if the Corvette was made in Japan the mags would love the seats.

 

Typical forum replys , apologizing for the C6'mmm

 

Yeah the GTO seats look great!

 

We like the seats as much now as when we bought the car. No complaints.

Friend of ours also bought a '09. Same thing from him.

 

FYI: The seats in my cheap-o caliber srt4 were better than the vettes....

 

Someone said that the V seats were too high to work.

 

FYI, everyone has their own opinion.

 

sounds right

 

Because they are...........

 

Typical forum replies. Bashing the Vette for the seats of all things.

 

Got an idea. For the ones who don't like Vette seats they can:

1) Change the seats to some other kind.
2) Sell the car.
3) Don't buy the car.

Problem solved.

 

Some like to pretend they write for C&D. Who gives a rats butt what C&D says about any car?.

 

More than 500,000 miles in C4s, C5s, and C6s, driven in 45 of the lower 48 states in all sorts of weather and under all sorts of conditions - mountains, deserts, rain, snow, high winds, Interstate Highways, Blue Highways, unpaved roads, streets in cities, large and small - including some of the most demanding roads in America - I think my experience might give me a bit of credibility when it comes to seats in the C6s: they need fixing.

The good part is that for $60 - $100 a good trim shop can fix them in about an hour.

If one is the all-too-frequent typical? "boulevard, don't-drive-it-in-the-rain, 2000-mile-per-year C6 driver" then your seats are probably fine. But, for those of us who actually drive the cars - including trips in excess of 7,000 miles - the seats, for most of us, don't cut it.

 

Car and driver and some others have Always favored imports, that's why i don't buy their mag.
C6, ZO6, ZR1 go toe to toe with any car in the world and some don't like it. To Bad.

 

Car and Driver describes these as "uncomfortably hard" and "rock in their mounts" under hard upshifts. They also say about the Recaros: "We'd never met a Recaro we didn't like until we sat in these." Grass is always greener...