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ThankYouJerry Samba Member
Joined: September 01, 2012 Posts: 2271 Location: Shakedown Street
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 8:04 pm Post subject: Most comfortable car/seats for long distance driving |
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Of course, when I was younger it didn't matter at all but, given my bulging disc issues of the last 15 years...
Among many cars I've owned so far, my favorite seats for long distance driving are:
VW Touareg (Too many electrical gremlins... had to sell it)
Buick Enclave (Crappy car that should be recalled... great seats!... had to sell it)
BMW E30 M3 (Great Recaro seats... before kids... long gone... fun while it lasted).
Others???
I'm considering the new 2017 Honda Ridgeline, but the seats better be WAY more comfortable than my old Ridgeline!
Maybe a 2017 Mercedes GLC??? _________________ 1990 Multivan - "Ohana"
1.8T, Auto w/3.27 R&P + Peloquin TBD |
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Cali_Army_Guy Samba Member
Joined: March 19, 2015 Posts: 2094 Location: Stockton, CA
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minger Samba Member
Joined: November 03, 2003 Posts: 238 Location: Cleveland Ohio
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Posted: Sat May 21, 2016 5:23 am Post subject: Re: Most comfortable car/seats for long distance driving |
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One day at the junkyard, I saw a mid 90s Benz S 500. I pulled the driver's seat and mounted it to a old rolling office chair frame and use it as my garage chair. Have taken many naps in it with my feet propped up. Can only imagine that it felt good cruising the highway. |
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cbeck Samba Member
Joined: January 14, 2014 Posts: 2494 Location: high ridge, mo
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Posted: Sat May 21, 2016 7:51 am Post subject: Re: Most comfortable car/seats for long distance driving |
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My bulging disc loves my wifes heated seats, and the adjustable lumbar in my truck. That being said,this is what I got for my street rail.
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tmb077 Samba Member
Joined: December 28, 2011 Posts: 177 Location: nw ohio
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Posted: Sat May 21, 2016 10:31 am Post subject: Re: Most comfortable car/seats for long distance driving |
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As much as I may hate to admit it, my 01 grand caravan has a comfy driver's seat. I've taken it to Florida twice from northwest ohio and several other several-hour trips without complaint or discomfort. I drove my 03 jetta to south carolina last spring and was pretty comfy in it the whole time, and we've done a couple 400+ mile trips in my wife's 00 new beetle and it was fairly decent. Maybe I don't know what true driving comfort is though, hard to say. I learned in a 73 super of my brother's, owned a 73 standard, and a handful of minitrucks, all lowered with different seats than what they came with. I had Shelby Daytona seats in one of my trucks, they were awesome for keeping you wrapped up but I never drove more than 100 miles away while i had it...
least comfortable I've owned was a 91 S-10. _________________ Brother's 56 Thread http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=652839 |
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iowegian Samba Curmudgeon
Joined: February 16, 2005 Posts: 9826 Location: Somewhere between Dubuque and Keokuk
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Posted: Sat May 21, 2016 4:24 pm Post subject: Re: Most comfortable car/seats for long distance driving |
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I had a '78 Olds 98 that had seats just like an expensive leather couch.
Worst seats?-------a toss up between a '54 Austin Healey, or any '66 or older VW. |
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hitest Samba Member
Joined: September 30, 2008 Posts: 10296 Location: Prime Meridian, ID
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Posted: Sat May 21, 2016 5:42 pm Post subject: Re: Most comfortable car/seats for long distance driving |
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I travel mostly in full-size, late model pickups. Without a doubt, Dodge seats will make you wish you were not born with a spine. I think they design for and sell trucks to guys with double ovens for asses and big enough backfat pits to smuggle parrots over the border. GMC/Chev a little better. Toyota Tundra the best of those three. Never had a recent Ford ride, for all it's worth...
Indeed, Honda seats are great. My wife's 2003 Pilot is still a comfortable long-haul driver. Honda does not know how to make an uncomfortable anything. _________________
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ThankYouJerry Samba Member
Joined: September 01, 2012 Posts: 2271 Location: Shakedown Street
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Posted: Sat May 21, 2016 8:56 pm Post subject: Re: Most comfortable car/seats for long distance driving |
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hitest wrote: |
Indeed, Honda seats are great... Honda does not know how to make an uncomfortable anything. |
Couldn't disagree more. My '08 Ridgeline RTL's leather seats SUCK!!! They sucked from new (day one) and suck now 8 years and 80K miles later. I love the truck and even want a new 2017 Ridgeline... but I won't buy it unless Honda has seriously improved the comfort of the seats!!! _________________ 1990 Multivan - "Ohana"
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Zundfolge1432 Samba Member
Joined: June 13, 2004 Posts: 12452
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Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 5:43 pm Post subject: Re: Most comfortable car/seats for long distance driving |
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ThankYouJerry wrote: |
Of course, when I was younger it didn't matter at all but, given my bulging disc issues of the last 15 years...
Among many cars I've owned so far, my favorite seats for long distance driving are:
VW Touareg (Too many electrical gremlins... had to sell it)
Buick Enclave (Crappy car that should be recalled... great seats!... had to sell it)
BMW E30 M3 (Great Recaro seats... before kids... long gone... fun while it lasted).
Others???
I'm considering the new 2017 Honda Ridgeline, but the seats better be WAY more comfortable than my old Ridgeline!
Maybe a 2017 Mercedes GLC??? |
Of all the cars I've owned the most comfortable seats had to the crushed velour harvest gold color 8 way adjustable ones found in my 1976 Lincoln Continental Town Car. Many reading this have no idea what it's like to pilot a 5,000 pound chunk of Detroit iron at 80+ MPH while a nearly 500 cubic inch engine purrs at low rpms and you steer the over assisted beast with one finger. They haven't made this type of ride since the late 70s, its an experience from a bygone era. |
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mark tucker Samba Member
Joined: April 08, 2009 Posts: 23937 Location: SHALIMAR ,FLORIDA
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 10:58 am Post subject: Re: Most comfortable car/seats for long distance driving |
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I have a electrick recliner that's great for long drives.I peroidicly do a few hundred miles at a time in it.next sunday Ill try to do around 600 miles just going for a coke~a~cola. but mostly I like doing it 1/4 mile at a time....and road race corses....both the outer course and the innercourse gotta have those pit stops .
my bug has some of those APC yingyang type seats in it that kinda rap around you and have many belt slots in them for racing harness's. there kinda hard fealing ...but comfortable at the same time. they have been in there for about 10 years, still look like new and match the rear seat, witch match the car,yeller with black stripe incerts,(all professionaly done)as I keep covers on the fronts and change the covers out yearly. so there may be a dragon or a cow driving any given year the lepard just didn't look right. |
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Da TOW'D Samba Member
Joined: December 25, 2005 Posts: 1318 Location: Bella Coma Canada
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 12:11 pm Post subject: Re: Most comfortable car/seats for long distance driving |
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Of all the cars and trucks we have owned the most comfortable seats for the long run had to be in our 1971 Citroen DS 21. Amazing what the suspension didn't soak up the seats did the rest. We have one with leather and the other cloth seats.
We stuck a cloth set in our Zoombuggy but the weather got the best of the foam rubber.
My wife's Volvo station wagon leather seats ranks right up there with all the adjustments and heat.
Worst had to be TR3 seats
Hank _________________ '57 type 1 Blackberry
'58 SC Ruf
'62 type 3 Notch
'92 Eurovan Willy DD
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Zeen Samba Member
Joined: July 24, 2004 Posts: 1308 Location: The Sunny Part of Michigan
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 6:34 pm Post subject: Re: Most comfortable car/seats for long distance driving |
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I'd love to know if any other cars have it, but my '97 Lincoln Continental is the only one I've owned that had heated seats with a separate control for the back and the butt. So you could put heat on your sore back without roasting your ass. It also had an inflatable lumbar bladder you could crank up to provide great support. _________________ The consequences of your decisions should not be confused with fate. |
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Glenn Mr. 010
Joined: December 25, 2001 Posts: 76760 Location: Sneaking up behind you
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 6:37 pm Post subject: Re: Most comfortable car/seats for long distance driving |
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williamM Samba Member
Joined: August 07, 2008 Posts: 4333 Location: southwest Arizona
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 7:48 pm Post subject: Re: Most comfortable car/seats for long distance driving |
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One of the most comfy seats I drove across country in was an 84 FWD toyota corona. You could drive for hours- then find a covert parking spot and recline all the way to the back seat.
Having the fearless "Cookiedog" pit boxer cross for security lets you sleep like a baby all night. _________________ some days I get up and just sit and think. Some days I just sit.
opinion untempered by fact is ignorance.
Don't step in any! |
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TheRustySuper Samba Member
Joined: June 24, 2009 Posts: 2076 Location: New Albany, IN
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 12:40 pm Post subject: Re: Most comfortable car/seats for long distance driving |
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My mother had a Mercedes GL450 that was a highway queen. Air suspension made for the smoothest ride I've ever experienced.
Excluding inordinately expensive, complicated and unreliable SUV's, two of my favorites are actually the cars that myself and my partner drive now. My 2012 CC has an excellent ride on the highway, and his 2005 Passat wagon has some of the most comfortable seats I've ever encountered in a car. And one of the only cars I've driven that has lower back support that I can get adjusted just right.
Most comfortable seats I ever rode in though...definitely the recliner-like seats in the front of my mom's '01 Volvo wagon. _________________ My '72 Super |
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Manfred58sc Samba Member
Joined: October 05, 2009 Posts: 3374
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 5:50 pm Post subject: Re: Most comfortable car/seats for long distance driving |
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1974-78 Cadillac Eldorado Barittz with pillow top seat option. Like a cloud. My 77 Gran Fury with its "couch" bench seat is pretty dang comfy for my 6'6" self. oddly, lowback beetle seats do me good as well. Mitsubishi makes a good bucket seat for Bus swaps. _________________ Fat chick owner/operator |
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T Hollis Samba Member
Joined: March 30, 2004 Posts: 226 Location: midwest
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 5:10 pm Post subject: Re: Most comfortable car/seats for long distance driving |
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One of our cars is an "Acura MDX" with the leather package and I'll have to say next to the 78 Cadillac Deville, the "Acura" seats are the most comfortable I've ever owned! |
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