Well, pick-up trucks are big cars, not huge, just big. And so are their seats, especially the rear seats: bulky and very unpractical for the driver, as the rear view is sometimes totally blocked by the passengers. The situation should be solved somehow, for this problem to stop causing accidents and passengers' injuries.

This time, the solution has come from Johnson Controls, a global leader in automotive seating, overhead systems, door and instrument panels, and interior electronics, which has introduced a new design for second row seats in pickup trucks (Slim Stow Seat). The new seats are slimmer, taking up 33 percent less space, maximizing seating comfort and being lighter weight compared to traditional rear truck seats (which reduces fuel consumption). And, as this would not be enough, they also improve visibility for the driver (seat back is lowered 100 millimeter) and passenger safety and comfort (the seat pad features 50 percent more foam than usual in the relevant areas).

“The Slim Stow Seat sets new standards in all categories tested, which included cargo capacity, user friendliness, seating comfort, material compression and ease of assembly”

said Dr. Andreas Eppinger, Vice President Technology Management at Johnson Controls Automotive Experience.

So, all those being said, would you change your traditional row seats with Johnson Controls' Slim Stow Seats at your pick-up truck?

[Source: Autoblog]

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Slim Stow Seats from Johnson Controls

The first race of the 2011 Le Mans Series got off on the wrong foot, to say the least. At the beginning of the Le Castellet 6-Hours race, the pit car made a mistake and caused a major pile-up in the GT field. When the lights turned green, the pace card didn’t leave the track and all the GT races ended up in sheer madness.

We wish we could say that no race car was hurt, but that’s not true. We can clearly see in the video that a Farnbacher-Loles Porsche was put to rest before it even began to show what it can do.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Via Autoblog.

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Le Mans Series pace car causes pandemonium