Good morning, friends. Some Mercedes models are furnished with "Exclusive" leather interiors. Can anyone explain what this branding delivers vs, presumably, standard leather seating..?

thank you

 

As I have understood it, "Leather Exclusive" stands for an all leather dashboard with real stiching (not the plastic look-a-like dash with fake stiching), and the same goes for the door panels.
Then I think that alcantara head liner and alcantara speedometer-covers are included in "Leather Exclusive". At least I have never seen one without the other.

 

Thanks Max. My SL600 has all of those features but the speedo/tach gauges are plain, not finished in Alcantara.....

 

My SL600 with exclusive leather package is the same. Leather dash, speedo/tach hood is plain plastic.

I know with a lot of cars, a "leather interior" package means that the seating surfaces and some of the other interior surfaces that are often touched are leather, but everything else - like the seat backs, lower sides of the seat cushions, etc. - is matching vinyl. I don't know how much of what looks like leather in a standard SL is real or vinyl, but I do know that in my SL there is no fake leather whatsoever - anything that looks like leather is the real stuff.

 

So...curious...what are differences among "Designo", "Exclusive", and standard leather...?
are any of them semi-aniline....higher quality..?
Interesting to understand what the branding delivers ..?