On Fri, 14 May 2010 00:55:44 -0700 (PDT)
peter wrote:
to the frustrations of travel. The seats themselves seem to have been
designed for midgets, with inadequate depth for an average sized adult
male and very thin upholstery.

Cheap I think is the word you're looking for. In the next iteration they'll
probably dispense with the cloth covering altogether and we'll have standard
euro plastic benches.

B2003