Is this really leather?

Grant Lenahan glenahan at vfemail.net
Fri Feb 11 15:47:04 PST 2011


Porsche leather, unless you special order the fancier interiors, is not great stuff. So font go by that. My Audi's leather >>> my boxster's.

Also, old leather softens and gets a patina. New leather looks like the dye it is.

But then again, my "new" car is 7 years old and my regular car is 9 1/2 years old, so what do i know?

Grant
On Feb 11, 2011, at 6:39 PM, Michael McLaughlin wrote:

> The auto show is this weekend and I spent some time there this  
> afternoon. One thing that struck me was that the quality of the  
> leather in most of the interiors was not impressive at all — the BMW  
> leatherette seemed nicer to me than much of the actual leather, and  
> the leather in my nine-year-old Passat is nicer than the leather in  
> all but the most expensive cars there (Porsches, for one). There were  
> cars in the $40,000-plus price bracket where the leather felt like  
> vinyl to me. Am I being overly critical, or has the quality of leather  
> in cars gone downhill over the past few years?
> 
> -Mike in Spokane, Wash.
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