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2010 Ford Taurus Multi-Contour Active Motion Seats Review

May 2009
Filed under: FORD Car News | FORD Headlines

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If Memorial Day travel estimates are any indicator, more Americans will be spending time in their cars this summer. American Automobile Associations (AAA) estimates the final holiday numbers to show a 1.5 percent increase in travel over 2008, for a total of 32.4 million vacationers hitting the road. Of those, 83 percent traveled by car
A 2009 American Express survey indicates that despite the troubled economy, 66 percent of travel agents surveyed say their clients feel vacation time is too important to their mental health to give up altogether
A few easy seat adjustments can help both drivers and passengers avoid any aches and pains that may come from a long car trip

With school ending and vacations starting, this is the time to pile the family in the car, visit the relatives, or just chill at the lake. But a long car trip often results in aches and pains that stick around long after the car is in park. At Ford, we feel your pain. Thats why Ford developed the industry-first, Multi-Contour Seat with Active Motion. Mike Kolich, Fords seating comfort engineer, a.k.a. doctor of derrieres, offers a variety of tips to keep occupants sitting pretty no matter how long the trip.

Even a small change can make a big difference, including:
Press your foot firmly to the floor behind the brake. Adjust the seat so your knee is slightly bent
Your left foot should rest comfortably on the “dead pedal placed on the left in cars with automatic transmissions. For manual transmission cars (stick shifts), drivers should be able to depress the clutch without pointing their toes and with minimal hip rotation. The left leg should be slightly bent when the clutch is fully depressed
The small of the back should be pressed firmly to the back of the seat
Position the upper body so the side wings of the seat provide as much support as possible
Raise the seat as high off the floor as feels comfortable
While maintaining proper vision and reach, recline a little bit. This reduces fatigue.
For measurement, your elbows should be slightly bent with your wrists on the top of the steering wheel (understanding that Ford safety experts recommend driving with hands at the 9 and 3 oclock positions for the best steering control to avoid an accident)
Try turning the wheel a full 180 degrees. If either hand falls off the wheel, youre too far away. If you elbow yourself, youre too close
Once youre comfortable, make sure your seatbelt rides around your hips so it pulls you down in event of a crash

This innovative seat, which debuts on the 2010 Ford Taurus, is specifically designed to make long drives far less fatiguing.
A total of seven bladders in each individual first-row seat provide six-way lumbar support, lumbar massage with a gently rolling pattern, and “active motion of the seat cushion
The active motion leads to a small but continuous movement in the pelvis, and provokes a change of muscular activation to help avoid back fatigue
The active motion of the lower cushion was developed in conjunction with Fords European Research Centre in Aachen, Germany, with input from back pain and fatigue specialists from the medical community

QUOTES:
"Sitting correctly in the seat can make a huge difference over the long haul. Even a small change can make a big difference."
" Mike Kolich,Seat Systems Engineer / Product Development Center

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