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I really hate that the industry managed to pull off the pleather to "vegan leather" rebranding. Everyone back in the day was clearly aware that pleather meant

I really hate that the industry managed to pull off the pleather to "vegan leather" rebranding. Everyone back in the day was clearly aware that pleather meant it was gonna be some shitty inferior product. While the exact same stuff called "vegan leather" manages to be marketed as a premium product and successfully tricks people. We are starting to pay the price for basic entry level cars that was what a luxury car went for just a decade ago. Yet somehow the materials the car is made out of is universally worse.

troyvit 2y ago
> Getting into a new MINI with Vescin for the first time it’s clear that Vescin is a step-up from what we’ve known as Leatherette. In the all the handful of new MINIs we’ve experienced it in the seats were softer to the touch than leatherette and felt much more supple. But how do they compare with leather? In short very well. Compared with the standard Chesterfield or Cross Punch leather seating, Vescin feels softer and more premium. Not surprising given that MINI’s standard leather is almost a veneer over other materials. So the point of the article you're commenting about is that the pleather in these cars is better than the leather was (but the leather in MINIs wasn't great to begin with). Personally I hate the feel and smell of leather (or pleather), especially wearing shorts on a hot day. As if yeah that's when I want to sit on a corpse's shell.
myvoiceismypass 2y ago
It’s 2025 and not all “vegan leather” looks like the plasticky pleather of 3+ decades ago. $20 Amazon jackets? Yeah, that is gonna be disposable plastic junk. And the article describes this material as certainly not junky.