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Post by bpg on May 13, 2024 17:42:21 GMT
If I could get a car with cloth seats that you can easily remove and wash, I would get one... Oh I did, that's exactly what the Captur has and although we have only done it once, it was a doddle and made the car look so much better inside. The Puma (Fiesta based SUV one) had that as an option and it will reportedly be available as a BEV soon. Don't know if they will keep the removable covers. You can take your goldfish with you in a Puma too, with the Megabox.
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Post by dixinormus on May 13, 2024 20:53:16 GMT
Isn’t leather generally easier to clean? S’funny how only fancy cars had leather 40 years ago, then all the manufacturers jumped on the bandwagon.
I bet Al remembers the crushed velour of 1970s Fords 😎
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Post by WDB on May 13, 2024 22:11:43 GMT
Interesting report (on a report) on the sustainability considerations in sourcing leather and ‘leather’ for car interiors. As I understand it, leather for the US makers is especially problematic. ruskindesign.co.uk/the-sustainability-debate-leather-vs-vegan-interiors-in-vehicles/Of course, 60 years before Norm’s 40, only the chauffeur got leather. The owners’ seats behind him were upholstered in velvet or whatever they liked.
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Post by EspadaIII on May 14, 2024 5:38:37 GMT
And in hot countries, who wants leather? If they have it, it's covered to make it cooler.
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Post by Humph on May 14, 2024 7:50:38 GMT
I guess I favour leather because it wipes clean and we seem to get muddy quite a lot!
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Post by Alanović on May 14, 2024 8:19:28 GMT
Isn’t leather generally easier to clean? S’funny how only fancy cars had leather 40 years ago, then all the manufacturers jumped on the bandwagon. I bet Al remembers the crushed velour of 1970s Fords 😎 Velour is indeed the best material ever used for car seats. I remember it also in 80s Vauxhalls. Mum's MkIII (facelift) Escort 1.6 Ghia (metallic red) had beige velour seats. Heaven.
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Post by WDB on May 14, 2024 8:28:57 GMT
Yep. Weren’t we looking at a veloured CX Safari the other week? And, as I’ve mentioned before, the two-tone velour in my 1998 Saab 9-3 was possibly the most sumptuous thing I’ve had in a car.
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Post by Alanović on May 14, 2024 8:36:19 GMT
Leathery interior smell accentuates Miss Al's car sickness. She was very happy to see the back of the Merc. I'll not buy a car with leather again.
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Post by WDB on May 14, 2024 9:50:14 GMT
It’s another generational thing. Animal products are disappearing from all sorts of things where they used to be commonplace. Young people don’t carry a wallet any more — but if they do, it’s made of fabric, not leather. Shoes may be the last (sorry) to go.
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Post by Humph on May 14, 2024 9:58:53 GMT
Like I care anymore? 😎
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Post by Alanović on May 14, 2024 10:00:41 GMT
Saw a black iX this morning with weird little bits of bright blue trim around the edges. Big buggers, aren't they.
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Post by Humph on May 14, 2024 10:05:41 GMT
I’m sure the majority of those who have them are, and will be in fact fine upstanding members of society. But, it’s the sort of car that will, in some cases, be bought by appalling people. Spiritual successor to the X6. No fingers being pointed here natch! 😉
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Post by WDB on May 14, 2024 10:18:34 GMT
Can’t those who like that sort of thing still buy an X6?
There was a black iX in the hospital car park (the visitors’ one, not the consultants’) yesterday. Black doesn’t suit it, just makes it a blob. But it fitted neatly enough in its space.
The blue bits are equivalent to those the i3 has. I really like them against the white, and they weren’t available with all the colours. Same on the iX3, although I couldn’t make myself like the looks of that in any colour. It’s the feature I’d have quite liked on the iX but decided not to hold out for.
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Post by dixinormus on May 15, 2024 3:32:35 GMT
Don’t think I would pay extra just for some blue shiny bits in any case!
Guess the factory is quiet if they can take your order and deliver it so quickly?
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Post by WDB on May 15, 2024 6:31:58 GMT
It’s a BMW i design signature — although the iX has quite a few of those, so I won’t miss the blue flashes too badly. Here’s how they appear on ‘my car’ in the BMW app. Yes, all the signs are there of concern in Munich. I imagine June is set aside for a right-hand-drive production run and Sunak’s 2030 mistake is resonating in weak UK orders. (See also Ford’s announcement today about coping by simply selling fewer cars overall in the UK.) Hence the pressure on dealers to find buyers for the RHD cars they’re building and the generous discount I’m getting on mine.
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