Leather or Cloth?

[SRGTD]

Preference for leather or cloth is very much a personal thing, although the choice has been removed for buyers of new GTI's, GTD's and R's.

Personally, I prefer cloth, which holds its shape much better than the VW leather. I've seen some very 'saggy' examples of leather seats on nearly new Golfs and I don't like the saggy look.

Agree that the leather looks good when new and wipes clean more easily than cloth. Heated seats also gets around the problem of cold seats in the winter, but the hot, sticky problem in summer remains, as does the susceptibility to scuffs and scratches from zips, and other fastenings on clothes.

Interesting to see that the Golf GTI convertible has the traditional Jakara cloth as standard, and not leather.

[Will@carbon]

"nice car mate, i like the wheels but what's with the funny pattern on the seats"

"how much £26000 for a golf!!!!, that's crap it should well have leather for that"

"sorry mate I like the car but I wanted one with leather, good luck"

[Jimble]

Leather is nice but my god it looks dull! The cloth is an aquired taste but is my choice in the GTI, i find it nuts that VW haven't offered half leather like the Edition 30? Definately the best of both worlds.

[gizzywizzy]

Cloth, the leather makes the cabin way too dark.  The cloth looks classy with its smart tartan look, it's a bit different and let's face it nearly all cars get leather these days so it's  common as muck.  Also with the winter pack fir winter the cloth is loads cosier too.

[mkviken]

the leather makes the interior look like any other decent spec golf

the cloth is unique to the GTI and GTD and therefor more desirable IMO.

plus like said above it does brighten up the dull interior a lot

[Edi35]

My preference is half leather as I had in my ED30, best of both worlds with GTI checkered seats with leather side bolsters and leather trim through out the cabin   would agree with everyone's comments as there are +/- for both. If I had to make a choice it would be leather as its easier to keep clean when you have kids  

[Jimmymature]

personally i prefer leather over cloth, I've had a few cars with cloth and this is my first with leather and for me leather is so much nicer, with leather don't forget you get the added feature of heated seats which is a great feature for the winter...

The leather makes the cabin look and feel more classy...

You can also get heated cloth seats too 


Jim

[Edi35]

You can also get heated cloth seats too 


Jim

And they heat up much faster than the leather too

[Mr GTD]

personally i prefer leather over cloth, I've had a few cars with cloth and this is my first with leather and for me leather is so much nicer, with leather don't forget you get the added feature of heated seats which is a great feature for the winter...

The leather makes the cabin look and feel more classy...

You can also get heated cloth seats too 


Jim

Didn't know that, you learn something new every day...

[Edi35]

Winter pack comes with heated seats. ED30 had heated seats too so with part leather heated up really quickly.