It finally arrived!! After 4 agonizing months of waiting, my EOS arrived at the dealership last Monday and I picked her up on Tuesday night. Just as well it took 4 months; that was all winter weather, and as I picked her up on Tuesday, the weather took a turn for the better (14C), so I was able to drive her away topless!!

I got the 2.0T (only available right now in Canada) with the DSG auto 6 speed transmission.

Color is Eismeer blue with beige leatherette interior. Pics will be taken this weekend and posted in this thread.

Loving the car so far!!

Congratulations on your new wheels. I'm looking forward to seeing your pictures.
Since you got the 2.0T you'll also be impressed with its power I bet, don't know about the DSG version but the manual transmission is sweet.

I was looking at a North American VW configurator andit seems that the leatherette is a replacement for our cloth here in the UK or is the cloth also available there?

It finally arrived!! After 4 agonizing months of waiting, my EOS arrived at the dealership last Monday and I picked her up on Tuesday night. Just as well it took 4 months; that was all winter weather, and as I picked her up on Tuesday, the weather took a turn for the better (14C), so I was able to drive her away topless!!

I got the 2.0T (only available right now in Canada) with the DSG auto 6 speed transmission.

Color is Eismeer blue with beige leatherette interior. Pics will be taken this weekend and posted in this thread.

Loving the car so far!!
Congratulations Hugh,

Good thing you are in Alberta and I'm in Ontario .... we both have the same colour combination . Eismeer Blue with Beige interior. Got mine last September when they first came out. Car handled well with snow tires here in snow country, but sure am looking forward to some "top down weather". Enjoy!

Congratulations on your new wheels. I'm looking forward to seeing your pictures.
Since you got the 2.0T you'll also be impressed with its power I bet, don't know about the DSG version but the manual transmission is sweet.

I was looking at a North American VW configurator andit seems that the leatherette is a replacement for our cloth here in the UK or is the cloth also available there?


Our only choice in Canada is the leatherette or the leather. I am enjoying the leatherette. The seats are very soft and very comfortable.

The 2.0T has quite a bit of power with the DSG; once the turbo kicks in, it really goes!!

Many thanks for the info.
It's strange how every country seems to have a different set of standard fittings that are not available in other countries even as an option.
I may have quite liked a leathette interior, looking forward to your pics.

Cheers

Here is the link to the photos of my EOS:

http://www.putfile.com/kazoober/images/99303

Hugh,

Congrats, it was worth the wait, great looking car.

Many thanks for the info.
It's strange how every country seems to have a different set of standard fittings that are not available in other countries even as an option.
I may have quite liked a leathette interior, looking forward to your pics.

Cheers

Think you might find the leatherette is what we call Vienna leather (as opposed to Nappa).

Normally leatherette is a synthetic product made to look like leather but has "water resistant properties" like plastic. The two options here nappa and vienna are all natural leather only with different textures.
I suspect this may be the case as well due to the absence of a fabric offering.

At least that would be my interpretation but I stand to be corrected.

Hugh, can you confirm one way or another?

Huje - great colour combo, I like it a lot! Exzpecting mine any day now, so enjoy!!

Paul:cool:

Here is the link to the photos of my EOS:

http://www.putfile.com/kazoober/images/99303
Great pictures, I am in the UK and have ordered the same combination, the blue and cream, so great to see, hopefully only a 2 week wait now till mine arrives.
Lisa ( Enjoy )

Great pictures. I'm glad you took some with the top up and with the top down. I just bought mine today (30th birthday present to myself!!!) and couldn't decide between the white and blue. They are trying to locate me one of those two colors and I'm going to tell them I want the blue.
Thanks again!

Loved the pictures and especially love the look of the front end without a huge number plate stuck on top of that loveley chrome bumper like ours have to ! enjoy.

Normally leatherette is a synthetic product made to look like leather but has "water resistant properties" like plastic. The two options here nappa and vienna are all natural leather only with different textures.
I suspect this may be the case as well due to the absence of a fabric offering.

At least that would be my interpretation but I stand to be corrected.

Hugh, can you confirm one way or another?

Hi. In France, the EOS comes eiter with standard cotton-style fabric, or with some premium with Vienna leather ('low' quality genuine leather), or at an extra premium with Nappa leather ('hi' quality genuine leather). What you call leatherette is I assume either what we call 'skaļ' over here (which is a synthetic thing that looks like leather, indeed is water-repellent, yet does not have the smell, touch, and resistance of real leather. It is NOT offered on the EOS here), or what we call 'alcantara' (which actually looks like 'deer-skin' but is totally synthetic, yet offers excellent anti-stain perfromance, and has the touch of leather, without being shiny)...
Anyhow, the good thing with the EOS is to be seated IN it, regardless of what you seat ON!!! :p

Hi. In France, the EOS comes eiter with standard cotton-style fabric, or with some premium with Vienna leather ('low' quality genuine leather), or at an extra premium with Nappa leather ('hi' quality genuine leather). What you call leatherette is I assume either what we call 'skaļ' over here (which is a synthetic thing that looks like leather, indeed is water-repellent, yet does not have the smell, touch, and resistance of real leather. It is NOT offered on the EOS here), or what we call 'alcantara' (which actually looks like 'deer-skin' but is totally synthetic, yet offers excellent anti-stain perfromance, and has the touch of leather, without being shiny)...
Anyhow, the good thing with the EOS is to be seated IN it, regardless of what you seat ON!!! :p


As far as I know imitation leather is not an Eos option in any market, so what might appear to be 'leatherette' is probably Vienna leather..

As far as I know imitation leather is not an Eos option in any market, so what might appear to be 'leatherette' is probably Vienna leather..
I have been told that the Canadian "leatherette" is indeed a synthetic material. I owned a Passat with the same material, and if you check the backing of the material it is fabric (not roughed hide), which substantiates it is synthetic. In use, it is very hard wearing and very dificult to tell from real leather.

I have been told that the Canadian "leatherette" is indeed a synthetic material. I owned a Passat with the same material, and if you check the backing of the material it is fabric (not roughed hide), which substantiates it is synthetic. In use, it is very hard wearing and very dificult to tell from real leather.


I stand corrected.
So you can't actually get cloth in Canada? Just leather or leatherette? Is that common?

I stand corrected.
So you can't actually get cloth in Canada? Just leather or leatherette? Is that common?
Situation exists for EOS only .. on most other VW products, standard option is cloth and upgrade is leather. On EOS, due to limited supply (only 400 in first 6 months) there were virtually no options, but VWofA put cars in packages ....
Standard ........... which was leatherette, not cloth
Sport ........ leather, plus a host of other extras for about $4000 in total.
The only individual options were .... colour, transmission, wind block, ski bag, rear parking assist, or alloy wheel upgrade
The only engine, across the board, was the 2.0 Turbo. Even the options was academic, because with only 400 available through 150 dealers, you basically took what the dealer had on order or tried another dealer!
Cheers!

From what I understand, which capacity could not fill a midget's thimble, the material on the doors are vinyl, which is like the leatherette seats available in the USA. However, I understand that europe may have several grades of leather....