MAJOR FAIL! No Sport Bucket Set Option (6 point harness seats) WOW!
03-17-2013, 02:33 PM
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Audi has plans to come with a lightweight (2200lbs) TT with the TTRS engine in it, they are talking about integrated rollbar, I am sure it will have buckets that can handle 6-point harness as well
360 hp/343 tq in stock trim, which can easily be upped to over 400hp with small changes, would have a better power to weight ratio than the GT3, and should be lower priced than the GT3 as well
Well for me it will proberbly be first come first serve
Mike
03-17-2013, 03:33 PM
#257
Audi sport bucket seats!
The first time I heard anyone say that non-airbag equipped 'sport bucket seats' would be no longer be offered in MY2014 by an auto manufacturer in Europe came from Andreas Preuninger at his Evo video interview just weeks ago! According to him, the reason is because of new EU regulations. That is why Porsche will not be able to offer their carbon fiber non-folding, non-airbag 'sport buckets', which in various forms has graced their European/ROW gt3 & RS cars for years! These same EU regulations will prevent Audi from offering their previous sport bucket options on their Europe/ROW models too!
That is good news for US Audi owners. Porsche, to their credit, started offering an airbag equipped 'sport bucket seat' in the US since 2007. It was introduced in the MY2008 gt2 and was continued to be offered in the .2 gt3's, gt3 RS's, gt2 RS's, GTS, Spyders and Cayman R's. So it has been historically very responsive (don't know if they are going the other way now). In contrast, Audi has not bothered to offer an airbag sport bucket for any market! NONE. So Audi will be forced now to design & develop a new airbag-equipped 'sport bucket seat' for their most 'sporting' post-MY2014 models in Europe/ROW. And that 'new' sport bucket seat might make an appearance in the US in the R8, TTRS and perhaps other Audi RS's coupes/sedans in MY2015. At least that would be my hope!
Saludos,
Eduardo
03-17-2013, 04:34 PM
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So, EU GT3 991 have the seats..but cant really use them for what they were made for. Wanna know my gues, 991 GT3 will never have bucket seats - except for RS- why? If Porsche wanted it, they would have made it possible..its just another reason for keeping the car "off track"..
03-17-2013, 08:36 PM
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The seat cushion bolsters on those C7 seats appear low, and there is little support in the hip area. They have the harness pass throughs, which is obviously very important, but the seats themselves don't look as supportive as the standard Porsche Sport Plus seats. They also appear to have 3 electric adjustments; makes me wonder how light they are. Has that info been published?
03-17-2013, 08:50 PM
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The seat cushion bolsters on those C7 seats appear low, and there is little support in the hip area. They have the harness pass throughs, which is obviously very important, but the seats themselves don't look as supportive as the standard Porsche Sport Plus seats. They also appear to have 3 electric adjustments; makes me wonder how light they are. Has that info been published?
Mike
03-17-2013, 08:58 PM
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That is the best comparative photo of the C7 seats I've seen to date. It looks to me that the standard seats are more bolstered, but lack the harness openings. The Porsche sport buckets look far superior.
In terms of the 918 seat, I am unsure if it has thorax airbags and it looks fixed as opposed to the sport buckets that have an articulation that can fold the seat forward.
I don't understand how some seats without thorax airbags are OK for the US market, ie Ferrari sport seats.
In terms of the 918 seat, I am unsure if it has thorax airbags and it looks fixed as opposed to the sport buckets that have an articulation that can fold the seat forward.
I don't understand how some seats without thorax airbags are OK for the US market, ie Ferrari sport seats.
03-17-2013, 09:04 PM
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The seat cushion bolsters on those C7 seats appear low, and there is little support in the hip area. They have the harness pass throughs, which is obviously very important, but the seats themselves don't look as supportive as the standard Porsche Sport Plus seats. They also appear to have 3 electric adjustments; makes me wonder how light they are. Has that info been published?
Well see, it also has no hole in the bottom, so that won't work either.
03-17-2013, 09:08 PM
#265
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Mike, I get your point but thinking is one thing, execution is another. As we keep being reminded, you can hang whatever name you want on something, but that doesn't make it so. Those C7 seats look really flat bottomed, for so-called "competition seats".
03-17-2013, 09:35 PM
#266
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Interesting. I couldn't tell from the pics if there was a pass though for the sub belt(s). I just assumed there must be one since everyone was talking up the seats.
03-17-2013, 10:41 PM
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It looks to me as though both corvette seats share the same seat bottoms.
Seems to me that GM should engineer a new bottom section for the "competition" seats.
Seems to me that GM should engineer a new bottom section for the "competition" seats.
03-17-2013, 11:15 PM
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03-18-2013, 12:34 AM
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I'd like to know if anyone has managed to put at sport bucket seat in a 991 of any kind without any airbag issue. I think it is likely it could be done as long as one has access to the PIWIS to reset the airbags.
03-18-2013, 01:57 AM
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There's one thing to be critical about Porsche's representatives and the direction Porsche is heading regarding transmission and track support,which I am...and another thing to be critical just for the sake of argument,by showing the Corvette example...
Really lame seats!