To further support this claim, I bought my car specifically because it offered heated cloth seats.

Car manufacturers are idiots. I want a small car because I live in a city, but I will never buy a small car with a sunroof, because I am tall and that space comes out of the inside of the car. So many features are bundled with sunroofs it is absurd. I would have probably spent 5 grand more on my car if I could have gotten features without getting a sunroof.

They literally could have charged me the price of a car with a sunroof and given me one without a sunroof and I would have been pretty happy.

It was true ten or twelve years ago, and don’t think car dealers were lying. I think what’s changed is the switch from resistive wires to carbon panels. Heated wire with cloth seats would probably leave griddle marks on your ass. :-P

So, yeah, my example might be dated.

Even more dated, IIRC my first car, an 83 model, had heated cloth seats. I am sure a 93 model I had did have heated cloth seats, and it is a bit more than 10 years since 93 ;)

I have cloth seats that are heated as well.

I drive a 2015 Chevy Volt with the non-premium package (i.e. no backup camera, etc.) because the premium-package comes with a shiny white center console which is downright blinding in the sunlight.

The premium package also comes with leather seats which, when it's in the severe negative degrees, you really REALLY don't want.