Is this really leather?

[Michael McLaughlin]

The Porsche I had in mind was a Panamera with the gathered leather  
seats (or whatever they call it); it was much nicer than the stuff on  
the Cayman that I also checked out.

I'm in the same boat as you as far as reference points — my Passat is  
nine years old, and the previous car I had with leather was a 1993  
Mercedes-Benz. So maybe my radar is just skewed.  :-)

-Mike

On Feb 11, 2011, at 3:47 PM, Grant Lenahan wrote:

> 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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