Leather is overrated, reckons Porter. It’s time to embrace the corduroy...
might feel delightful, but the cheapo stuff slathered around the insides of less expensive cars is frequently a stiff, sterile disgrace. It’s cold in winter, hot in summer, and slippery all year round, which is especially hopeless in cars you might want to chuck around a bit. Meanwhile I guarantee the occupants of a 911 with the Jarvis Cocker Pack will find their trousers firmly anchored during high-G cornering manoeuvres.
> 'A two-spoke steering wheel makes sense in a sports car: it gives you more places to wrap your fingers’ The ‘leather’ in a lot of cars isn’t even leather. Mercedes started using its proprietary faux-leather vinyl under the name MB‑Tex in the 1960s, for example, and plenty of other car companies have been laying on the synth-o-cow since then. Increasingly they’re happy to admit it’s fake, and when there are ten times as many vegans in the UK today as in 2014 you can see why.
The smart driver knows that leather isn’t posh and indeed isn’t very nice. Just look at the example of one of Britain’s greatest female drivers, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. You might not be aware that the constitutional monarch of the United Kingdom is a helmstress but the signs are all there. She trained as a mechanic and lorry driver during the Second World War.
In the front, this car has leather seats. Very high-quality leather, I’m sure, but it’s only for the staff, because in the back, where the boss sits, it has lambswool. Warm yet breathable, and infinitely more grippy than cow hide. More sustainable too, come to that.
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