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Subject:Re: Survey--Merkur seats
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Fri, 2 Feb 2001 16:31:16 +1200

>My brother's 1991 SHO has *badly* disintigrating leather seat covers at only
>81,000 original miles. Cost to replace with OEM seat covers (front only,
>parts only,no labor).....  $2642.00 !!!!!!!  And that's wholesale, with a 30%
>discount because i'm a volume customer. And, no, they're not comfortable.
>   My vote for most comfortable seats ever: the Acura NSX. I drove one for 2
>years, sometimes for 7 hours a day.  Unquestionably the best seats i have sat
>in  - and i was a mechanic for 3 dealers for 6 years.

Honda NSX? Are you sure this is Acurate? Yes, Honda seats are generally
very well-shaped, with big bolsters. other manufacturers take note. But....
what do NSX seats go for?? May be more than a new set of SHO seatcovers...
or the whole car!

Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin, New Zealand
fax 64 (3) 479-7527
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
VW van, Toyota diesel & mollusc nut
Macintosh 7500/200/64, 6116/60/24