A poll - Leather, Cloth or Velour?

[skattrd]

Velour followed by alcantara because it feels like Velour.

 

The rest, meh, leather is wipe clean but cold in winter/hot in summer. Cloth is less affected by climate but often looks grubby.

[phil_lihp]

Velour, followed by velour, then velour, then good quality worn leather.

[carlo]

Velour for me. preferably when fitted to a 305 GTX or 505 GTi front seat.  Don't think I've ever sat on a nice leather chair although those mid 90s Scorpios looked quite comfy.  Yes I remember those PSA tweed efforts from the 80s, that early BX seat shape was awful (for my back anyway)

[jonny69]

Velour is my choice.

 

I don't like leather at all. I don't like the smell or the feel, or the fact that it's too cold in the winter, too hot in the summer and always too slippery - despite promising otherwise.

[Asimo]

Cloth; Japanese or American velour or that corduroy-like cloth that BMW used in the eighties.  

 

Leather is good for bicycle saddles.

[brickwall]

Velour is right compfy but no good for dog hairs. Cloth wins.

[fordperv]

Velour is best! Unless you're wearing leather jeans, in which case all surfaces become Teflon.

 

Vulg after reading that i got a picture in my head of a slim young gentleman driving a purple velour seated barge wearing only leather trousers and a trilby, that may be one for jim'll paint it

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Leather is the only sensible covering for a car seat,as long as it's heated and preferably ventilated. The modern trend for using plastic in so-called upmarket* cars, is to be deplored. I recently had to suffer a Mercedes with Artico ' Leather Twin' upholstery and it actually made me avoid using it on a couple of occasions , the actual cow skin in our Cowley and Halewood built Rovers being much nicer on bare skin( legs only, short wearing not dogging).

This doesn't stop every fucker selling a Merc with shiny seats calling it leather-w211 facelift Sports for example, only ever available with black plastic with white piping, the reason I've never owned one.

In the 80's and 90's velour was the same price option as leather in Mercs,one of the nicest S Classes I've ever driven was a 1989 300SE with blue velour and no aircon- G64PFC where are you now? I'd love to spend hours with double sided tape picking dog hairs of those seats like I did every day for 12 months!

[rml2345]

Moquette.

As long as it's not itchy Stagecoach Holdsworth.

[purplebargeken]

Vinyl and then leather please, all else is shite.

 

Seen too many baggy seated Dolomites with luxury* velour. Nah. 

[Inspector Morose]

As long as it's not itchy Stagecoach Holdsworth.

 

[DVee8]

Leather i like Leather.

 

To be honest i'm not at all bothered i have 1 with leather,1 with cloth and 1 with vinyl.

[xtriple]

For re-sale, leather.... punters LURVE dead cow! So do valeters.....

 

I'm torn, I love the look of leather but not keen on the cold/hot nature of the stuff but it's great for us silly sods who let their dogs on the back seat as it's wipe clean and hairs don't stick. Just got leather sofas/chairs in the flat for this very reason.

 

But, I prefer cloth seats for comfort (the ones in the Honda are most pleasant) butI'd still rather have leather in the motor!

 

Slave to fashion? Me?

[Semi-C]

I'm a whore for velour.

[anonymous user]

Not too bothered, as long as my sheepskin seat-covers fit

[AnthonyG]

Leather for looks and style but velour is more comfortable in extremes of weather.

[R9UKE]

^ I agree. Heated velour, as in my Safrane, is the ultimate.

 

 

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[Pillock]

Ever since the 1989 Ford Cars brochure, I've wanted to sit in the perforated leather of a Scorpio. It looks lovely.

[eddyramrod]

I absolutely love the smell of a leather interior, but these days, they so often look rubbish.  Weedy non-colours, hard, flat seats... nah, take them away.  Velour please, like a 1976 Granada Ghia, only not in a Granada.

[Station]

The leather seats in my Starion and in the CRX and 300ZX were damned comfy, but they had that hard feeling, like a church pew.

I sat in an 80s Granada Scorpio with leather seats in a scrapyard and they were ridiculously comfy.

We had a Honda Jazz in Thailand which had vinyl seats but they were ok, in a wiped clean kindve way.

[sierraman]

My parents had a avocado velour settee when I was a kid. Lovely and comfy it was not like the shite you get now. I was reminded if it a few years later when I had a Sierra with blue velour seats mmmmm!

[New POD]

I don't care. as long as it is road worthy.

[plasticvandan]

Vinyl,preferably tan.

[PiperCub]

Cloth all the way for me.

[Lacquer Peel]

Cold in the winter, hot in the summer, made from dead ungulates, leather can FRO. You shouldn't need heated seats and air conditioning to be comfy in a car.

[fordperv]

Ever since the 1989 Ford Cars brochure, I've wanted to sit in the perforated leather of a Scorpio. It looks lovely.

It is a lovely place to sit, I once put a set in a mk1 Sierra, everything worked I even wired up the heated elements

[MikeKnight]

I much prefer leather, even though you have the hassle of feeding it (if you want it to remain supple) it's generally much easier to clean and maintain. No need for shampooing and drying.

 

I think it feels nicer too, but your mileage may vary.