The seats in any car are better engineered and far more comfortable than the typical chair in an office, home, park, bus or train.
Never underestimate the value of a comfy seat.
Never underestimate the value of a comfy seat.
At some point my dad said he's sad we didn't keep the drivers seat as well.
Essentially all these seats go for scrap so you could get the leather seats from a 7-series BMW to have a mega cool sofa at home complete with arm rest and cup-holders. With a few more bits of wood you could make some outer arm-rests. Heated/cooled seats could be nice too.
Maybe there is a 1990's sweet spot where the electronics aren't present so adjustment can be done with mechanical controls, as per your Astra option. A Transit Van could have particularly good pickings with the right vintage.
Nah, I haven't watched any Top Gear. But the seat was just always so comfy in a way none of the seats in the never cars I've been in was. I think it is due to how the seat envelopes you, in a way reminiscent of race cars (which the Astra was not, by any stretch of imagination).
I think heated seats could be possible as well, I assume the required electronics and the protocols they speak for regulation should be rather simple. But given the seat is at home there is not that much need to heat it up :)
There was a company that sold a frame for doing just that, but they went out of business. Fortunately, you can still easily get all the attachment points/latches and such, and welding up some simple legs and whatnot isn't that hard.
I was recently chair shopping, and thought the same - tried one of those gaming chairs, and it was terrible. Maybe it was the demo model, I dunno - but I couldn't see sitting in it for hours.
An actual racing seat for a car, though - those can be really comfortable. The closest I own is the set of Recaro's in my Isuzu VehiCROSS (they came standard with the vehicle); even as old as they are, they are super nice for driving. I could see using one for an office seat.
Maybe I should look into a cheaper racing seat (I could not afford an actual Recaro seat) for my next office chair? Maybe something from Jegs would work...hmm.