If you look at your leather sofa only the seating bit is leeather, arms and sides are leather look..

Correct and that is exactly how it is in most cars. As an example colleagues A6 was like that.

But standard seats in a MB are "Artico Leather" which is 100% plastic, never seen a cow. And that is all the seat inc the bit you sit on. Been loads on the interweb over the years with seats cracking etc and many 1000's of disgruntled buyers thinking they were getting real leather. But if you read the brochure it clearly says that Artico Leather is fake. So in my opinion its partly the buyers fault.

Rode in a nearly new E class the other week. The Artico seats are horrid, hard, unforgiving and slippery. The facric seats in the Superb are way better.

Looked at a Kia Rio a few weeks ago before we ordered the Fabia. The "3" spec would have suited us but the standard seats were "faux leather" i.e. plastic. That one fact turned us away. There is no way I am buying a car with plastic seats, last one I had was a 1972 Viva.

Edited by skidpan on 17/03/2018 at 10:04