I’ve sat in a lot of cars in my life, always having a soft spot for the engineering it takes to make a decent automobile.

I’ve sat in BMWs, Nissans, Toyotas, Hyundais, Porsches, even a Ferrari once — well, you get the picture. A lot of fucking cars.

By far the most comfortable seats of any car I’ve sat in are the ones that come stock with the GTO. The GTO seats make the so-called “luxury” seats you get in the BMWs and all the rest seem like metal folding chairs in comparison — and that’s not an exaggeration.

I’ve ridden about 400 miles in a high-end BMW, and driven about 400 miles in a GTO. The GTO seats are far more comfortable.* My butt ached after the BMW ride. No such problem in the goat.

Whatever Holden (the Australian sub-company that actually built the GTO) knows about making damn fine seats, I wish they’d share it with the rest of the world.

*I think this is because GTO seats are deliberately modeled after pilot seats in high-end planes, except without the arm-rests — which are the most comfortable seats in the world. Luxury car makers really could do much better, and it certainly wouldn’t even cost very much.

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