apsis super delux seats
12-16-2011, 05:50 PM
#21
Melting Slicks
Be careful what you wish for. My Aston Martin had Connolly leather. Yes it smelled and looked wonderful. However, like anything in life there were trade offs. Fine materials like Connolly Leather and Alcantara headliners tend to scuff and scratch very easily. They also require special leather treatments such as "Hyde Food" instead of normal interior dressings. I thought owning an exotic was going to be fun. In the end, it turned out to be just another pain in the a$$.
12-19-2011, 11:08 PM
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Be careful what you wish for. My Aston Martin had Connolly leather. Yes it smelled and looked wonderful. However, like anything in life there were trade offs. Fine materials like Connolly Leather and Alcantara headliners tend to scuff and scratch very easily. They also require special leather treatments such as "Hyde Food" instead of normal interior dressings. I thought owning an exotic was going to be fun. In the end, it turned out to be just another pain in the a$$.
Bill
03-17-2012, 02:05 PM
#26
Drifting
Your car looks fantastic.
The seats are really good looking. How do they perform? Do they provide good lateral support in turns? Do you feel like you sit into them as opposed to on them?
Any other thoughts about them would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Greg
The seats are really good looking. How do they perform? Do they provide good lateral support in turns? Do you feel like you sit into them as opposed to on them?
Any other thoughts about them would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Greg
03-17-2012, 02:23 PM
#27
Safety Car
But for lateral support, I bet the Callaway seats do a better job. But are they worth $9k?
...a bigger reason this car caught our eye is Callaway’s optional seats that replace the Corvette’s much-maligned units—and they’re phenomenal. With wraparound support and without sacrificing comfort, they remind us of those found in Porsche’s Boxster Spyder and hard-core RS cars. Only these, which start as Recaro shells that are skinned by Callaway to accommodate the Vette’s narrow seat wells, go a step further by retaining the power adjustability and heating capability of the stock Corvette seats. GM, if you’re listening, please, please, give Callaway a call and figure out a way to mass-produce these gems. Hopefully that would cut the cost to something a bit more palatable than Callaway’s current $8970 option price, too.
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/...orvette-review
