Since the middle of January, the Alcantara package is no longer available for Ibiza and Arona. This was already strange, since the model was only on the market for a few months at that time. Why is an option taken from the market after a few months? Only today, a SEAT seller justified this fact with a “brand” at a supplier. I mean to have read this already in other articles. On my question, which plant would have burned, he could not have As has already been seen in many questions, car sellers are the very last to pass on information to customers (whether aware or because they don’t know better, I can’t judge). I refer here only to the exhaust emission standards valid from 1 September, which were completely unknown to almost all sellers in January 2018, even it was negated that there would be changes. Alcantara will only be by one manufacturer according to my information. There are no reports at all at google “Alcantara”, “Werk” and “Brand”. This is strange in that at least some newspapers would have to report on it at such a dramatic event. Perhaps someone with Italian knowledge can google and share his results here. Otherwise, I think there are quite different reasons for stopping the Alcantara seats: 1. Possibility: The supplier has had higher price demands, which the VW Group did not want to accept, so it was taken out of the program. 2. Possibility: The Alcantara seats look too high-quality, so that the distance to VW and Audi is no longer maintained. The VW Group has forced Seat to remove the seats from the program. I am looking forward to opinions on these these theses.