Given the choice....

[Powervalve Nige]

Do you think that a leather trim is more desirable than the std cloth trim on the MK5 Gti ?

or put it this way - if two identical cars were for sale and the the two choices were available, would the leather be a no brainer ?

Cheers
Nige

[Gene Hunt]

Best choice for the GTI is the ED30 seats.Half leather &half the cool tartan cloth. For gods sake don't go for that horror of beige leather   some early  GTI's came with!!!!!!!!.What the foooooooooook were VW thinking?.
 

[JagGTi]

My vote goes to leather for being more desirable.

I think those who do a lot of motorway driving etc prefer cloth though.

[sub39h]

Best choice for the GTI is the ED30 seats.Half leather &half the cool tartan cloth.

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otherwise i wouldn't be fussed between the two. they both have their advantages/disadvantages

[Greeners]

Cloth, hate full leather........

[andrewparker]

I don't want to offend anyone with leather, but the quality has never looked very good on the MK5, even from new. Put 40K on one and it looks terrible IMO.

[Matto]

Cloth, hate full leather........

Same for me. Doesn't age well at all.

[CAPTAIN BRITAIN]

I bought car with full leather simply because i detest the Ed 30 tartan look.
But if there was another option of plain black cloth i'd of had that  

[samdem]

Best choice for the GTI is the ED30 seats.Half leather &half the cool tartan cloth. For gods sake don't go for that horror of beige leather   some early  GTI's came with!!!!!!!!.What the foooooooooook were VW thinking?.
 

Ive got beige leather 

its grown on me alot, i really do like it!

But to the OP, i would defo go for leather if i had the option, just feels that bit more classy!

[Gene Hunt]

I bought car with full leather simply because i detest the Ed 30 tartan look.
But if there was another option of plain black cloth i'd of had that  

..........but the hole idea of it was to capture the retro look of the orginal GTI after the not so hot mk3 & mk4 GTI's.

[rich83]

ED30 1/2 leather or full cloth. In that order.

[CAPTAIN BRITAIN]

I bought car with full leather simply because i detest the Ed 30 tartan look.
But if there was another option of plain black cloth i'd of had that  

..........but the hole idea of it was to capture the retro look of the orginal GTI after the not so hot mk3 & mk4 GTI's.

Yeah i suppose...But it's just a personal preference.
Now i liked these seats on the 20th anni golf 1997 but others will say yuk 

[Jonny]

ED30 1/2 leather or full cloth. In that order.

Same

[JStav]

When I was looking for my golf I was interested in leather only as I thought I hated the cloth.  Eventually seen the car I bought despite it having the tartan cloth seats and I've got to say they looked so much better in the flesh and really classy in my opinion.

[Andy]

i prefer the leather other ther cloth seats