SEATING
An important point about the shorts and t-shirts territories is that many of these places are populated by smaller people.
Northern Europe is the home of some of the largest people on the planet (cf. L L Cavolli-Sforza, J Geipel). Stats for the size of the average human being can be unhelpful in the design of expensive hardware used mainly by large rich people. It would be nice to think that AS had the sense to design the SP to accomodate frenchmen rather than chinese but my Highland back and shoulders say other wise.
I have also sat in the design seat when dealing with very similar issues for land vehicles and it is close to impossible to justify extra space to the bean-counters when there is a large pile of statistics from reputable institutions backing the case for the smaller option.
Last edited by jimf671; 31st Aug 2013 at 11:00.