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Leather is a premium material found in the cabins of many new vehicles. Luxury brands, like Mercedes-Benz and BMW, have their own proprietary faux leathers that seem like real leather. Some brands also have partial-leather interiors, leatherette, cloth, and sports cloth interiors.
Take a look at the brands that Cartelligent clients love to have leather or partial leather seats based on our data.
These top automakers frequently have high-quality and durable leather interiors that our clients favor.
Base Subaru models come with cloth seats. Find leather-trimmed seats with the Limited trims and above in every Subaru model.
Discover leather-trimmed seats on Limited trims and above, which makes sense for Jeep owners who want to easily clean seats after their off-road adventures.
Chevrolet vehicles typically come with cloth or leatherette seats, and they have a wide range of selections while premium trims bundle leather seats with high-tech safety features.
Ford’s premium trims get leather seats and plenty of other upgraded options, while lower-level trims have standard cloth seats.
As Toyota’s luxury brand, Lexus is all about great performance and high-end interiors. Most base Lexus models are equipped with its leatherette, NuLuxe. F-Sport editions and vehicles with the Luxury or Ultra Luxury packages come with genuine leather seats.
BMW’s proprietary leatherette, SensaTec, comes standard on a number of popular models as one of the world’s premier luxury brands. Many Cartelligent clients choose the optional Premium Package, bundling leather seats with a moonroof, satellite radio, keyless entry, and lumbar support for a comfortable driving experience.
The Swedish automaker loves leather. Just the S60 and V60 are offered with leatherette sport seats as one of the top car brands with leather interiors.
You can choose between partial or full leather, depending on your preferences as a top automaker with leather as an interior choice.
All Land Rover models come with seats covered partially or in full with leather.
All Audi models have leather interiors as a benefit of owning one of these cars.
Cartelligent can help you understand your options and get a great deal on exactly what you want for a leather interior. Call our team of car-buying experts at 888-427-4270 or get started today. Look over our pricing to see what we can do!
Most automobile companies give the option of leather interiors, which is good news for everyone interested in sustainability, durability and beauty. But more and more are targeting people who boycott animal products with ‘vegan’ alternatives. Often, this is purely a commercial, marketing decision. Animal inputs are required to make automobile parts including filters, rubber, antifreeze, even LED displays. Most manufactures are keen to give consumers a choice of automotive interiors.
Regardless of sustainability, some auto manufacturers are trying to cash in on people who choose not to use animal products by eliminating leather, but continuing to use filters, tires, antifreeze and infotainment systems.
Companies like Toyota and General Motors, are solidly behind the use of leather. Tesla and Volvo are anti-leather, which is a position we at Real Leather. Stay Different. are working to change.
It’s often difficult to work out where manufacturers stand on the subject, so here’s a quick rundown of the latest news.
Volkswagen
Volkswagen’s message seems to be mixed. It uses the words ‘holistic sustainability’ to describe its ‘ID. SPACE VIZZION’ range, saying ‘no animal products’ are used. It then describes the steering wheel rim as ‘made of polyurethane’, which is an oil-based plastic that can shed microfibres and is much less biodegradable than leather.
Other models seem to have been designed with a different view. The bestselling e-up!, VW’s best selling electric car, features leather in its interior. And the company’s website refers to the responsible sourcing of leather.
Toyota
Toyota continues to offer high quality leather interiors for its higher spec models and says it uses ‘low carbon materials from organic products’. It also offers what it calls ‘synthetic leather’ on some of its models. Read more here
Mercedes
Most high-end Mercedes come with leather seats as standard, although it is possible to choose non-leather alternatives. The company is careful to source leather that has not come from cattle reared on deforested land, saying: “Our suppliers have confirmed that the hides processed for the products delivered to Mercedes-Benz come from cattle raised outside the areas of Amazônia, Cerrado, Pantanal, Gran Chaco, Mata Atlântica and Chocó-Darién.”
Read more here.
Ford
The electric Mustang Mach-E is Ford’s first car to have a fully animal-free interior.
For most other models, a leather option is offered, or there are alternatives in the shape of Sensico, a synthetic non-animal- based upholstery and Dinamica micro-suede, which, the company says, is also animal-free and features recycled content.
Read more here.
BMW
The i3 EV, the company’s model that focusses on sustainability, features real leather tanned with natural olive-leaf extract.
BMW offers an alternative called Sensatec which, it says, is made from a recycled blend of wool and other materials including vinal, and dyed with plant-based colourings.
Read more here.
General Motors
General Motors is actively promoting its leather interiors’ ‘new car smell’ in its advertising. It continues to offer high-quality leather options in all of the brands it owns.
Tesla
Tesla has stopped using leather in any of its vehicle interiors. The synthetic alternative the company is using is not proving popular with all Tesla owners, as we have covered previously on Real Leather. Stay Different.
Volvo
Volvo has stopped using leather with the Swedish company’s director of global sustainability saying: “We’re taking a stand because we want to do what’s best for animal welfare and the climate.”
Stephen Sothmann, President of The Leather and Hide Council of America, whose member companies recycle about 30 per cent of the world’s hides for leather said: “We categorically reject Volvo’s suggestion that by removing leather from its electric vehicles it will somehow impact animal welfare.”
RLSD view: Hides and skins are the inevitable by-product of meat and dairy production, and if not recycled for leather, will simply be sent to landfill or burned. Plastic alternatives to leather contribute to this waste AND to the use of more fossil fuels to make them. As long as people eat beef and drink milk, there will be plenty of leather to satisfy the needs of the motor industry, and to satisfy those needs sustainably.
Check out more from RLSD on sustainability here.
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