ssjazz23

Yes. I kept my 2001 A4 to 135K miles, partly because I was waiting (hoping) for the 2006 or 2007 to have the CLOTH sport seats that I had in my 2001. The cloth sport seats in my 2001 were great. I gave up in Oct 2006 and ordered a 2007. The leather seats in my 2007 A4 Q 2.0 are terrible. Leather is slippery, no side bolster support. Especially when I'm in the passenger seat I slide around on that slippery leather. And the head restraints on the 2007 are painfully uncomfortable.

Can't Audi of America understand that the seat is the main place the driver connects to the car. If the seat is uncomfortable, then my impression is that the car is uncomfortable.

If the CLOTH sport seats , as close as legally possible to the sport seats in my 2001, were available in the 2009 I would order one. Or if they become available in 2010, I'll wait for it.

Tanner

And it does not last as long as the leather as the side is cracking again (after it was replaced about a year ago).

The only reason why they are limiting it to leather here for the Audi, they want to position themselves in the premium segment and cloth doesn't help with resale value unfortunately. While you look at Europe, you got every imaginable combination of the A4 from the extreme basic to the fully loaded.

bpp

"pleather"...I like it.