The only individual inside this thread who made the conclusion that every other leather-like surface in the CX-9 is actual leather is you. You are the only one here who linked leather trimmed seats to all other leather-like surfaces and if you can post a link to anyone else having done that here,
I'll eat my hat. You can't because no such posts exists inside this thread with one glaring exception... yours.
That's the level of intellectual dishonesty that you Professional Trolls engage in on forums across the Internet. You engage in some of the most time wasting and useless non-sequitur drivel imaginable, all the while actually believing that you are Policing or somehow exposing some made up truth - when the reality is that you only expose yourselves as being Professional Trolls.
The biggest fools on the Internet are Professional Trolls acting like Forum Police, pretending to be establishing their internet credibility where none actually exists. I don't have an internet ego to bruise, but apparently people like you do. The website I posted is from Mazda, in case you missed that fact. Mazda itself made no distinction between the two on that web page. You used a different web page, yet said nothing about the link I provided. In all, the matter is entirely moot as it says nothing about why the Sorrento is a Minivan dressed up like an SUV, nor does it say anything whatsoever in response to the Title of the OP.
The pathology of Internet Forum Policing is now viral and has been for quite some time. I am not surprised nor taken off guard by the fact that Mazdas247 has its fair share of such Professional Cops on duty. Here's to the 'brave' men and women of the 'internet' who protect us from evil doers and people who can't read, write and comprehend the English Language:
Three cheers for all the Cyber Cops among us! Gawd damn fools.