I for one hate the six and 10 speed transmissions. These are going to be big money when they fail and you have to get a rebuild in the future. I don't believe in putting that kind of money into Vehicles. Some people only keep them three to five years and they're under warranty and they don't have to worry about it. Other people like me don't buy their until they're 10-15 years old in the first place and sometimes those repairs have already been performed. Others by the new and keep them 10 plus years and get stuck paying the repair bills. Now, when those machines have been around for 15 years and I can get a 10-speed transmission from the salvage yard for under $300 then I will consider only one. For now, I will stick with a 4-speed Auto like a for our 100 or 4r 75w.
I can buy 10 of those tomorrow from anywhere from a hundred fifty bucks to 375.
So a 10-speed transmission is not a plus feature for me it's a big negative.
I will definitely agree with the leather being the worst quality in the GM SUVs. The Cadillac cars have higher quality but the SUVs are the worst in the industry. Ford SUVs are not quite as good as Town Cars either. The 98 and Up town car has the best leather of any of the Town Cars.
A similar year Navigator is nowhere near even as big or as much leather on the seats and it is much thinner and starts to crack and we're through faster but it still Outlast AGM by twice as long if not three times as long. Mustangs have a terrible quality of leather too in the past.
One of the main reasons I chose a navigator when looking for a used SUV was because you just can't find a GM without at least the driver seat destroyed. Also, it's very hard to find black leather in them. Even the black exterior ones almost always have gray or tan. I won't have that color interior. I found a super nice one A Car Lot had up the street from me and I called just to be nosey to ask what color interior. I told him it had to have black because if it didn't have black I didn't care if it was $1,500 I didn't want it. He called me back and was joking with me that it was $2,500 but it had tan interior. Needless to say I didn't even go look at it. I considered buying one and swapping it all over or buying new covers but that's just too much of a hassle so I bought a navigator the black leather.