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A few people here have noted that the beige seats in our long-term 2011 Hyundai Sonata GLS are quite stain-resistant.
Now I know why. The seats in our Sonata feature Yes Essentials fabric, which they claim are spill-, odor-, bacterial-resistant, etc.
But they didn't mention anything about dog hair, so I guess if that happens again we'll have to bust out the super tape.
Albert Austria, Senior VE Engineer @ 16,200 miles
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jeepsrt says:
12:27 PM, 04/27/11
They must be Insideline resistant because they still look good...
esoterica says:
12:30 PM, 04/27/11
Having non-removeable advertising labels inside a car just shouts "classy." Almost as classy as the made-up "Dimension" brand that Hyundai slaps on their audio systems.
jaeger1 says:
04:21 PM, 04/27/11
Well, whatever the brand, I'm pretty impressed with how well they have held up for such a light tan colour. There's no way I would have thought it would have done so well with this kind of multi-driver / passenger use.
brn says:
04:39 PM, 04/27/11
What astonishes me is that people are impressed by the fact that a near-new car doesn't have significant wear. Are our standards really that low?
emajor says:
06:15 PM, 04/27/11
Bacteria resistant? Well, that kind of changes the way you think about seat cushions in shared cars, don't it? Yuck.
dougtheeng says:
06:41 PM, 04/27/11
Those are some nice looking seats in general....and a very clean door jam.
bonzjr says:
04:48 AM, 04/28/11
OK so someone figured out how to give you guys a car with upholstery you can't screw up.
Now I'm waiting for someone to invent dashboard/door/trim plastics the Inside Line team can't scratch. Something tells me that would take a near-miracle breakthrough in material science.
bodyblue says:
09:46 AM, 04/28/11
Impressive....I have heard good thing about Yes Essentials and I guess this shows that it is not marketing BS....looks like it works.
emajor......so you have a problems with other peoples butt-residue? How narrow minded of you! :)
brn says:
04:18 PM, 04/28/11
To follow up on my other post.
Today, I drove one of our fleet vehicles. These fleet vehicles get driven by a different person every time they go out. The one I got today was a 2007 Chevy Impala. Its cloth seats looked as good as the ones pictured above. Was I impressed? No. It's what I expected. If it didn't look good, I would have been disappointed.
Again, why are we impressed that the seats on a near-new vehicle look good?
bmw__m5 says:
07:03 PM, 04/28/11
I like these Hyundai's more the more I know about them. now only if they made a truly high performance R version rather than a bored out Genesis with some gaudy LEDs and the boy racer kit.