What's The Best Way To Recline A Car Seat?

This is the new Mazda MX-5 ND, a car that you all know pretty well already. During my first shot of driving it, I adjusted the car’s back rest with a lever (the same mechanism in all generations of MX-5) and asked myself a question: why do some cars use levers and others use a big wheel that you wind clockwise or anti-clockwise?

According to folklore, the reason for the use of a lever originates from people in Japan on their lunch breaks who’d go to their cars for a snooze. The lever made it quick to recline the seat and catch a few more winks. Again, this isn’t something that I’ve read in the Bible, it’s something I was told in passing, so it could be rubbish. But it makes sense, at least.

Anyway, I like the lever approach. The big dial I find too damn slow and electric seats are out because of "weight reduction, bro."

What’s your preferred method of reclining a seat and why?