Miata Mailing List: March 1996, Message #192
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   From: Tom Manson 
Subject: Re: Leather = less leg room?
   Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 12:40:34 -0500

On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, Bob Beamesderfer wrote:

> A friend of mine who is considering getting a Miata was the Chicago auto
> show recently and took advantage of sitting in all of the open MX-5s on
> display. He's 6'1", not that tall, but found that he couldn't extend his
> legs all the way in the leather interior Miatas but could in those with
> cloth seats. All seats were all the way back, of course.
> 
> So, are the seats that different between leather and cloth? Or was this
> some show car oddity?

Perhaps the difference was the sound system which might compromise 
seating length to accommodate the transducer in the seat.

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