Im thinking about taking a run at 1 of these and notice that some have leather sats and some have the Alcantra type seats. I have never driven a GT3 for that matter any car with Alcantra seats.

What are your thoughts between the leather and the Alcantra.

Thanks,


Ice

 

Alcantara Feathers .. Leather cracks..

so final option is: cloth? just kidding...

go with alcantara.. looks alot better.

 

Alcantara is the base trim for the R8. Also alcantara is only on the seat middles. Not on the door panel, dash or anywhere else. There are 2 leather packages available for the R8.

 

Thanks for the info fella's.

I actually just purchased a 2009 R8 with Brown Tuscan interior, Black Pearl exterior. ( Not Alcantra )

I should have the car in 12 days.

Will posts pics when she arrives!!!!!!!!!

Ice

 

alcantara FTW

 

We wait pics then

 

The alcantara headliner is really nice but I agree that it doesn't wear well on the seats or steering wheels for that matter.

 

+1..I agree on that.

 

Steering wheels especially, seats are fine, but alcantara steering wheels and sweaty hands dont look good.
I dont think the R8's' comes with an alcantara steering wheel though.

 

Go with alcantara, I really like the look and feel of it personally

 

Yes alcantara ftw... love them on mine...

 

Alcantra!

 

I'll second that. The alcantara seat bottoms in my S6 wore out very quickly, and got dirty quickly. No way I knew of to clean them, unlike leather.

The headliner and door panels were very nice, though.

 

Alcantara!! looks and holds you better

 

Do you have any pics of the worn out alcantara? I'm curious what happens to it. Cleaning/maintenance seems easy enough, this is from the actual Alcantara website:

http://alcantara.com/en_US/experienc...tenzione.shtml