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Depends on what you're gonna do in and with the car.
Leather is easier to clean. But dark leather gets hot and sticks to your legs in the summer.
My SUV is my dog and project transporting car...those have cloth seats. They have held up well. The dogs would scratch up leather pretty fast.
My sports cars have leather seats, but they get more babied.
If you have kids, many of my friends prefer the leather so that spills are not absorbed into the seats. However, not an issue for me, as we don't do food in the cars.
I prefer leather because i'm bad at spilling things. one wipe down, and then leather protectant on the seats and i'm good to go. my clothes on the other hand? not so much.....
we have leather in 2 of our 3 cars.. One is wearing like iron and the other is not.. If I had the choice for an everyday driver I would def go with cloth.
Cloth for my econo commuter car with 250k miles that i dont give a .............. about as long as it runs well. Leather in the mom mobile/kidtransport/suv. Cleans up real easy, we use a quality seat board under the car seats so it doesnt tear/wear the leather. We dont have dogs and if we did they would only ever be in the rear anyway.
I've had all of them and tend to prefer leather, especially with the kids. I skipped leather on my current car and have no qualms with the cloth, but when we got my wife a minivan, we went for the leather for the ease of maintenance and the spills.
I'd have to say the only advantage to cloth is that it doesn't have temperature extremes like leather. In the cold, leather is really cold; in the heat, leather is really hot. You can fix the former with seat heaters, but the solution for the latter isn't very common.
keep in mind 'leather' interiors are not all leather., Most have more vinyl in them then they have leather in them. Most seats have leather only where you sit on it. Bolsters, sides and backs are vinyl.
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