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Old Aug 11, 2002
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Floating seats

I am seeing these "floating seats" more and more in a lot of concepts...



...once this system does make it into production cars, think of how easy it will be to swap or eliminate seats!
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does that sadan seat 6 or 7?

is there a third row of seats?

what car is that?


what do you mean "floating seats"? I can see the seats are diffrent, but I don't quite see it......


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That's the M-B Vision GST concept car:



By floating seats I mean that they are mounted via side brackets onto a central "spine" and not on legs or bases bolted to the floor pan, as all other current cars have them.

I have seen this seat design on the upcoming Ford GT-40 and the VW Bus.

Edit: It does offer a 3rd row in the back, so it would seat 6 passengers.
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O ok. I know what you mean now.

either that's a small guy or that's a big M-B


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lol i thought that thing was floating for real... like with magnets. haha cool
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can it handle the NYC potholes?
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why would you want to swap those out, they are bad ***!
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sorry... that car looks stupid... its a beefed up soccer mom wagon...
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wowwww crazy!
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how much does that car cost?

i want one
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i like how the doors completely out and there is no bar int he middle but woudln't that make it worse in side colision???
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i guess its just a concept car they just made a life size model...u no like the lexus in minority report
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minority report was horrible[IMG]i/expressions/demon.gif[/IMG]
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