I'd Skip the Recaros - 2015 Ford Mustang GT Long-Term Road Test
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I'd Skip the Recaros - 2015 Ford Mustang GT Long-Term Road Test
Our 2015 Ford Mustang GT has racing-inspired Recaro seats, but they require a few tradeoffs.
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Only a tiny portion of Mustang owners will ever take their cars to a road track, and those folks lucky enough to live someplace like SoCal with curvy mountain roads would be held in place just fine with the stock seats.
Way back when stock seats in American cars sucked. The seats in my '87 Mustang LX 5.0 were flat and had no more lateral support than the ones in the 1976 Fiesta I drove before it. Even the seats in the '87 GT mostly looked sporty, so something like an option for true sports seats would be worth the upgrade.
But today Ford puts a perfectly good sports seat in the base GT and so (obviously) I completely agree that giving up the heated/cooled seats (it gets cold/hot every day) and the power memory seat (my 6-4 frame shares a car with a 5-4 wife) plus paying $1600 more for a track quality sports seat is not worth it.