It's funny this came up. When I was looking at the Acadia, the only one they had on the lot had cloth seats. I guess I'm a bit of a leather snob when it comes to cars, and I commented to my salesguy, "why in the world would they make a $30k+ car with cloth!?" I guess if you have big dogs it makes sense, and then I guess there are those that just prefer the cloth instead. To others point that have commented, the cloth in these is really nice. At the end of the day, to each their own!