Yeah. In fact, the seats were what sold me the car in the first place. I've always been a JDM fanboy so I never cared what Ford offered. I didn't even know a "ST" was. I was Googling some car seats and stumbled upon the Recaro seat with a "ST" on it, so I googled up what "ST" was. The seats looked amazing. I wanted those seats!!
I did a lot of researched and my eyes opened to a whole new world (USDM). The FiST was definitely affordable, journalists loved it, and oh my... these seats. Everyone that sits in my car compliments them cause these seats are probably better than what they have, even if they have a performance car. I had a guy with a STI sit in them, a S2000 sit in them, etc. Funny that the 2018 STI's use the same Recaro seats now (just different colour/pattern scheme).
I don't know what to say... It's unfortunate if they don't fit you or if you're too big for them. I drove on a 14 hr road trip (was in a rush and only stopped once for a break) with no problems. And was it fun whipping around the bends in the mountain passes with those seats hugging you in tight. That's what this car was made for. Car feels incomplete without the Recaros. It's like buying a performance car, but saying nah, I'll opt out for the performance bolster seats and go with the base econobox stuff. Actually, that literally is what it is... lol
I know some people wanted to save the $2k and see it as MSRP + $2k option. But IMO, I see it as the other way around. MSRP. (and you can can "nerf" your car to save $2k). Imagine if other performance cars had option to put in econobox bench seats instead with the option to save $2k. I guess a lot of people would do it, but I'll never. Gotta go with the whole package. You want performance, you get performance everywhere.
I might be wrong, but I think USA is the only place that offers Recaros as an option. I think other places in the world just include the Recaros, cause those seats just belong in a performance car...