Updated photos of the 156

Is the wood effect centre console standard? The wood bits just look a bit out of place.

Yes, that's standard.

Basic models were silver plastic, Veloce / Sportpack fake carbon fibre and Lusso got a rosewood steering wheel and wood veneer centre console. (It's a proper wood veneer, not plastic)

I was thinking exactly the same. In fact not a big fan of that interior at all. And you need a new K :)

Still, seems like a fair amount of car for the money - good luck!

Hmm.. I think some wood inlay on the doors to break up the grey a bit more would be an idea. It just looks odd as it is but maybe thats me.

Probably not helped by the late model head unit I put in.

The original head units were a standard, but Alfa badged Blaupunkt, in black.

That's the CD unit out of my Sportwagon, which has a silver centre console.

I actually rather like that, despite the slightly odd interior.

Mike P

Yea I agree with that, it's like they've only done the centre then run out of wood, as normally those trim bits are like, complimentary to the door cards. It doesn't look awful or anything, and the seats are probably a lot less green in real life I'd imagine? More grey? Must say, personally I'd rather have the silver or carbon interior, but that's just me :-) I assume it's painted plastic on the ones with the silver trim inserts? That wouldn't bother me, I mean real Ali would be better but there's no reason to touch them anyway heh.

As I posted. Base spec. cars come with a dark silver / grey painted centre console - but I've stuck a new head unit in there from a car with the new, light silver console....

It looks fine from the steering wheel - it's a throwback to 1960s Alfas, really, when the gearstick emerged from halfway up the centre console, which was a slab of wood.

This shows the closest I can get to the real life green with a camera:

Green corduroy seats, classy ;-)

I used to have a Fiat Uno with *beige* corduroy seats... even better. :-D