This is a subject of interest to me as the owner of a '17 Ruby Convenience Package GT350. When I made up my mind last summer to buy a Shelby, I tried really hard to like the Recaros. After all, they had considerably more bolstering than all of the seats any of my prior Z06 and ZR1 Vettes had...and they just looked so "right" for a Shelby. And I tried, and tried, and...well tried. But the Recaros were ok for me to get into, so-so to sit in, and literally painful for me to try to get out of. At 6'2", and 214 lbs I am not overweight, but the combination of being in my 60's, 12 years of football were too much. A Recaro equipped '17 was not too difficult to find in one of the colors I wanted, and hell, one dealer even offered to have an upholstery shop "custom fit" the driver's side seat to my liking. Was it just me?
Nope. Then I found out that Ford had seriously underestimated how many people might want the "sofa seats" as some derisively call them. Which was interesting, because these seats had more bolstering than some of the performance model Vette seats I was on the track with. And hey, what's not to like about air conditioned seats living in North Florida? Maybe Ford "forgot" that a lot of people who could afford to pay $60+k for a "toy" might not be in their 20's or guys in their 30s to 50's still raising kids. Hmmm. Hell, I heard even Leno had the Recaros replaced in his R. And maybe if I had a bit more disposable toy money, I might have bought an R, eaten the ADM (paid MSRP for mine) replaced the seats, replaced the track special tires for when I was driving it on the street (most of the time) and called it a day.
So began 9 weeks of looking for a new convenience package car before locating the one I own now. And now, I hear more and more people commenting about the desirability of the so-called sofas. Interesting how that all works.
