(31 Jan 2015, 9:22 pm)Dan wrote Have to say I agree with you, Marcus.
Leather seats are passed off as 'luxurious' but I much prefer fabric seating. Not because leather seating is too "futuristic", but because the seats seem a lot harder and don't seem to warm up. The only upside is that they're easier to clean, so the interior of the bus looks a bit smarter.
As a regular passenger of Sapphire service 7 I have to say that I don't mind the e-leather seats and find them quite comfortable when I had them for an hour to college two mornings a week most weeks. When I went to Newcastle on Tuesday I had the 7 to Durham then I had a 57 reg Lowlander on the X2 and all my family thought the e-leather seats on the Sapphire Pulsar's were nicer than the fabric seats on the Lowlander.
Have to say though I think my favourite seats on modern buses in the NE have to be the GNE fabric seats in the B9TL's and also like the ones in the Tynedale Xpress Solar's.
Could you find the e-leather seats weird because you are not used to them because I wasn't too sure on them at first when the 7 first became Sapphire but I quite like them now, they aren't luxurious but still pretty nice.