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Written by Ollie Kew
A French man is enthusiastically showing me two photos of a human bottom. This is a strange day at work, even by Top Gear standards. Fortunately, he"s part of a skunkworks in Citroen that wants to do away with schporty-this and dynamic-that, and reinvent car comfort in a world that"s got mired. This is the work of the Citroen Advanced Comfort squad. The bottoms depicted are in fact pressure maps, showing how good seats spread the strain on your backside, and bad seats don"t. So, sit on poorly designed car seats and you go numb, and ache after a long trip. Sit on good"uns and you don"t.There"s more to the, um, CAC initiative than multicoloured rump maps, however. Citroen has addressed refinement, chassis building and, sure enough, suspension components in order to make what might be the world"s comfiest supermini, in the bumpy form of a C4 Cactus. And the plan is to roll its findings out on showroom models within two years.
Date written: 21 Mar 2017
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A French man is enthusiastically showing me two photos of a human bottom. This is a strange day at work, even by Top Gear standards. Fortunately, he"s part of a skunkworks in Citroen that wants to do away with schporty-this and dynamic-that, and reinvent car comfort in a world that"s got mired. This is the work of the Citroen Advanced Comfort squad. The bottoms depicted are in fact pressure maps, showing how good seats spread the strain on your backside, and bad seats don"t. So, sit on poorly designed car seats and you go numb, and ache after a long trip. Sit on good"uns and you don"t.There"s more to the, um, CAC initiative than multicoloured rump maps, however. Citroen has addressed refinement, chassis building and, sure enough, suspension components in order to make what might be the world"s comfiest supermini, in the bumpy form of a C4 Cactus. And the plan is to roll its findings out on showroom models within two years.
Date written: 21 Mar 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 7155
