>Yes, the Toronado Brougham's seats were upholstered in the finest
>Corinthian velour. "Vulgalour," Jeremy Clarkson would call it, but
>man, I tell you what, those were the most comfortable damn seats.
>None of these ridiculous sporty side bolsters or rock-hard lumbar
>protrusions like you get in modern cars. It was like driving a living
>room sofa. And unlike the cheap grades of leather GM used at the
>time, the vulgalour wouldn't peel the hide right off you if you sat on
>them wearing shorts in summer time. I would happily have a set of
>1984 Oldsmobile Toronado Brougham seats as furniture in my house
>today.

Luxury! In the 1980s I was sitting in shorts on the back seat of a Renault with I swear plastic seats. My parents actually used to give us scratch old beachtowels to sit on in the middle of summer if we went on long trips...

(Oh I'm sorry, that sounds a bit four yorkshiremen; but that wasn't actually my intent!)