The heated seats are pre-installed and you pay for it, whether you activate the subscription or not. You can't choose a cheaper, non-heated seat, as far as I kn

The heated seats are pre-installed and you pay for it, whether you activate the subscription or not. You can't choose a cheaper, non-heated seat, as far as I know. The cost of the heated seats has to be covered by the actual purchases of that option, otherwise they'd be selling a car without heated seats for the price of one with them, at which point the car is overpriced. If car manufacturers could just arbitrarily charge more, then they would do so anyway, seat heating hardware or not.