A4 Leather manual sport seats?

[Scott Stiles <scottst@microsoft.com>]

> Hi all,
> I have a US-Spec '98 A4 30v qm/sport. Silver w/Anthracite (is this the
> dark gray?) leather.
> Two things bug me: compared to the cloth 1.8t sport seats we get here,
> the leather seats obviously lack the proper support for spirited
> driving, and the Power drivers seat seems to sit ~1-2" higher than the
> passenger non-power seat (makes it tough to drive with a helmet
> on...).
> 
> To kill two birds with one stone, I'd love to pick up a
> manually-adjusted Sport leather drivers seat.
> I know they have them in Europe (I've seen them in the comparo's), but
> I don't know whether or not Audi plans to bring them here.
> 
> ? Anyone know if Audi plans to release leather sport seats here in the
> US ?
> ? Any WAG's as to how expensive it would be to get one shipped from
> Europe ?
> 
> Thanks! This addition would (to me) just about perfect my 30v.
> 
> Scott Stiles
Redmond, USA
> scottst@microsoft.com
> '98 30v qm/sport
'90 Miata