At 03:44 PM 6/5/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Only comment I would make is that getting in and out of a low slung
>sports can get to be a bit of a pain if you're doing it all the time.
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>There's a technique to it which involves reversing into the seat. ;-)
Some of us can no longer get into any car seat any other way, and the most
user-friendly type of seat is one with a spring-controlled seat back -- i.e.
in some (most?) cars, the rake of the backrest is controlled by turning a
hand wheel at the side of the seat base; in others the backrest is spring
controlled and just pressing a lever allows one to push it back freely as
far as it will go and later let it push itself forward again. This greatly
simplifies ingress for those with long legs/arthritis/small low-slung cars.
(One can buy a small revolving-platform device to help the swivelling
involved, but while it might help getting in and out, to be sitting on a
freely revolving base while cornering might not be ideal.)
(The purpose of this lengthy explanation is that some day someone may have a
chance to advise an arthritic patient on choice of car.)
Hugh de G
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