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then you’re definitely in the wrong area of this forum! 😆 You’ll need medical attention with a GLS!
One caveat that maybe was a difference between my loaner X3 and your loaner 330i - the X3 had the sport seats with the hard side bolsters and extendable piece under your knees. Not sure what the 330 had? If I were buy any car now, it definitely wouldn’t have the sport seats anymore. I’m too old, too tired, and too damn fat for them anymore. If I could slap a Murphy chair to a car frame, I’d do it in a heartbeat!
One caveat that maybe was a difference between my loaner X3 and your loaner 330i - the X3 had the sport seats with the hard side bolsters and extendable piece under your knees. Not sure what the 330 had? If I were buy any car now, it definitely wouldn’t have the sport seats anymore. I’m too old, too tired, and too damn fat for them anymore. If I could slap a Murphy chair to a car frame, I’d do it in a heartbeat!
I recently came back from 2-hr commute for business in my X3. Did I wish I was driving my wife's GLS instead? Absolutely! If this was a family road trip, no question I'm driving the GLS!
X3 seat comfort is not the best and has its own thread in Bimmerpost. Let's move on!
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To me, Mercedes still has the best balance between comfort and sport overall. The new 7 Series is ridiculously comfortable and luxurious inside, but take an X7, I hate those seats where the bolster pops forward and leaves that gap, thats what kept me out of a 7 Series in 2020. It makes my legs go numb, the seats in the GLS are much better IMO. The one thing I do like about BMW seats is how the backrest actually does tilt and psyically angle vs Mercedes who just has air bladders in the top which pump up. S class seats can be adjusted to be very tightly bolstered and also very wide and accommodating.
Overall I think the X7 has a nicer quality interior than the GLS, but design and comfort overall is not as good as in the GLS IMO. Space is nowhere near as good.
Overall I think the X7 has a nicer quality interior than the GLS, but design and comfort overall is not as good as in the GLS IMO. Space is nowhere near as good.
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I had a VW GTI for over 12 years (3 of them to be exact). Sold my last one last year at a ridiculously high price to Carvana. Those were all sport car seats, and loved every one of them. The X3 was just too damn hard everywhere for me. No tailbone support for me.
I’m not fat either, but at 50 with two little kids we brought through the home schooling covid era, I’ve got one or two slices of Little Ceasers on me now. Couldnt care less either. Been married for nearly 20 years. Trust me, if she leaves, I’m buying that 911 convertible and keeping the dog, and I don’t need a six-pack for either… I will be that guy you look at and say “such a waste of a beautiful car” as I putter along.
my seat preference also syncs to my driving style lately too. I like to cruise about, not feel pressured into having to be first at the stoplight drag race. I go fast, with my cruise control. That’s one of the key reasons I finally parted ways with my last GTI, which was tuned to 320hp and all of that crap. I simply didn’t enjoy it as much as I used to. No, for me, the next “cool” car is likely a Jeep Wrangler (Sahara). The 911 convertible is a teenage poster dream that is going to stay that way…
I’m not fat either, but at 50 with two little kids we brought through the home schooling covid era, I’ve got one or two slices of Little Ceasers on me now. Couldnt care less either. Been married for nearly 20 years. Trust me, if she leaves, I’m buying that 911 convertible and keeping the dog, and I don’t need a six-pack for either… I will be that guy you look at and say “such a waste of a beautiful car” as I putter along.
my seat preference also syncs to my driving style lately too. I like to cruise about, not feel pressured into having to be first at the stoplight drag race. I go fast, with my cruise control. That’s one of the key reasons I finally parted ways with my last GTI, which was tuned to 320hp and all of that crap. I simply didn’t enjoy it as much as I used to. No, for me, the next “cool” car is likely a Jeep Wrangler (Sahara). The 911 convertible is a teenage poster dream that is going to stay that way…
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If you find statistics insulting, then I would suggest you do something about them. Culture is a poor excuse for unhealthy lifestyles and a healthcare system that has worse outcomes for much more money than many other western countries.
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On a related note, I remember the X7 seat side bolsters being adjustable so that it can better "hug" you while driving. I really wish I had this in the GLS and I could have used it in the X3 as I find myself sliding around on the seat, especially on tight turns!
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Yes, the AMG seats have that, too. I can inflate both the lower and upper side bolsters. So for normal driving I have them deflated for maximum comfort, yet still plenty of support, and when I go hit up a fun road I inflate them fully.
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I find the accusation that people don't like sport seats because they are fat insulting, not statistics. I just don't like what you like, and you don't like what I like. Doesn't mean one of us has a problem.
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Thanks for the virtue signaling. So glad to hear you have no challenges in your life lol
I find the accusation that people don't like sport seats because they are fat insulting, not statistics. I just don't like what you like, and you don't like what I like. Doesn't mean one of us has a problem.
I find the accusation that people don't like sport seats because they are fat insulting, not statistics. I just don't like what you like, and you don't like what I like. Doesn't mean one of us has a problem.
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Absolutely, and there are folks with injuries and/or disabilities. They exist at about equal ratios in each market, though. If you can't see the significance of a large demographics unique to the USA that swings the balance of simple likes/dislikes then I don't know what to tell you. But sorry if I insulted you. I wasn't even specifically talking to you.
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I get the Mad Men reference, but it makes no sense in response to what I said...enjoy your bike ride and your uncomfortable seats lol
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Well, time to end this and invoke the laws of holes. You walked right into that one with your comment, and ridiculing people who ride bicycles for sport just makes you a douchebag. Kinda rich coming from a guy who I can only guess doesn't exactly have a gym membership. Look I also go to the track where I wear a helmet, gloves and even a hans device, but I obviously don't drive like that to the grocery store. There's a difference between doing something for sport and just doing it to get somewhere. You should perhaps take your own advise and look up the definition of stereotyping.
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Well, time to end this and invoke the laws of holes. You walked right into that one with your comment, and ridiculing people who ride bicycles for sport just makes you a douchebag. Kinda rich coming from a guy who I can only guess doesn't exactly have a gym membership. Look I also go to the track where I wear a helmet, gloves and even a hans device, but I obviously don't drive like that to the grocery store. There's a difference between doing something for sport and just doing it to get somewhere. You should perhaps take your own advise and look up the definition of stereotyping.
Being stereotyped isn’t much fun is it? Why don’t we both agree to stop doing it?
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To be offended or insulated, one has to be quite insecure, so I don't get offended. You can stereotype me all you want. In case you want to educate yourself on why long distance cyclists wear the full gear, especially the proper shorts then you can go riding for 50 miles in regular clothing and your chafed, squashed ***** and painful **** will tell you why. Just saying, but the gear serves a purpose. Anyway, yeah let's stop it.
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Well that all went sideways..think my eyeballs got chafed.. ha!
i think a 50 year man that wears a 36 size pant says the seat is just too pinched up for his likes, is pretty fair game for criticism of a car seat. Had this MB GLC for a day, and it too just feels cramped to me. Feels econo to me, and I like it better than the X3. They’re all getting too damn hard and narrow in general from the german brands though if you ask me. I personally think Nissan makes some of the best seats in the industry, but that’s a different tooic altogether…
There was a day not too long ago that perhaps I would’ve thought differently, but when the world stopped spinning in early 2020, my priorities shifted away from “me” to basically everyone and everything else. Leading up to that point was my last hurrah of personal vanity, Re-strained a lower back injury from when I ate a chevy in 1996, rolled into my 50’s, and decided to relax a bit more, which means I want a soft and relatively spacious car seat for my cars. The GLS is great. My 2014 E350 is flawless after I took it apart years ago and tweaked it (have driven that car 18+ hours nonstop from DC to Naples several times). None of which cost nearly as much as those uncomfortable cramped EQ seats I sat in two weeks ago at the MB dealership…
grabbed a beer earlier this week with an old neighbor who is a life long VW Audi Porsche owner. He’s about 60 now and in good shape. Bought his wife a new SQ5 two years ago and now says the same thing about those seats too. Says he can go about two hours in them before getting sore. She can go about 4 hours, and she is very much the tennis fanatic. Yet can drive his 2006 911 convertible for days on end without so much as a cramp…
i think a 50 year man that wears a 36 size pant says the seat is just too pinched up for his likes, is pretty fair game for criticism of a car seat. Had this MB GLC for a day, and it too just feels cramped to me. Feels econo to me, and I like it better than the X3. They’re all getting too damn hard and narrow in general from the german brands though if you ask me. I personally think Nissan makes some of the best seats in the industry, but that’s a different tooic altogether…
There was a day not too long ago that perhaps I would’ve thought differently, but when the world stopped spinning in early 2020, my priorities shifted away from “me” to basically everyone and everything else. Leading up to that point was my last hurrah of personal vanity, Re-strained a lower back injury from when I ate a chevy in 1996, rolled into my 50’s, and decided to relax a bit more, which means I want a soft and relatively spacious car seat for my cars. The GLS is great. My 2014 E350 is flawless after I took it apart years ago and tweaked it (have driven that car 18+ hours nonstop from DC to Naples several times). None of which cost nearly as much as those uncomfortable cramped EQ seats I sat in two weeks ago at the MB dealership…
grabbed a beer earlier this week with an old neighbor who is a life long VW Audi Porsche owner. He’s about 60 now and in good shape. Bought his wife a new SQ5 two years ago and now says the same thing about those seats too. Says he can go about two hours in them before getting sore. She can go about 4 hours, and she is very much the tennis fanatic. Yet can drive his 2006 911 convertible for days on end without so much as a cramp…
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Exactly, lots of people just don’t like those kinds of seats, doesn’t mean they are fat or in poor shape. I wear a 36 waist too, I’m a normal sized person, they’re just not for me.
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I guess I'm just kinda surprised given that cars have only gotten bigger and bigger over the last decades. Today's 3-series is the size of what the 5-series used to be.
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I suspect it’s all in the name of safety. It’s pretty obvious to me that they want the passenger to be as close to the center of the car as possible to give as much room as they can to absorb a side impact hit. Which I can understand. They clearly don’t want the passengers to be using the door as an element of comfort. They want you to be snugged up to the center console and so the seat bottom gets narrow and contoured to achieve that, is my guess anyway…
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I suspect it’s all in the name of safety. It’s pretty obvious to me that they want the passenger to be as close to the center of the car as possible to give as much room as they can to absorb a side impact hit. Which I can understand. They clearly don’t want the passengers to be using the door as an element of comfort. They want you to be snugged up to the center console and so the seat bottom gets narrow and contoured to achieve that, is my guess anyway…
