Why do cars seem to have set choices of interior/exterior colours.

Silver/White/Gold/Red cars with black and dark grey leather. Black/Navy/Grey cars with cream/beige/tan/white leather.

Why is it so difficult to find a nice black car with nice black leather? The closest I've found where grey leather in the dark grey Lex, and Black leather in the dark green Saab, you rarely find sexy black on black anywhere.

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Elder
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My little old E30 is black with black leather :-)

One of my least favourite things in a car is grey leather, no matter what colour the car is.

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Pete M

"DanB" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

My XM was black with tan leather - "pint of guinness" - looked lovely - much better than the black-with-black combination, or black-with-dark- grey-half-leather-half-alcantara.

Reply to
Adrian

Because it would be like sitting in a tomb.

OTOH if you buy a Merc you can have any combination of exterior and interior colour, you just have to wait four months for the car to be built.

Reply to
Steve Firth

You're such a goth ;) My Vectra is black paint/black leather

Reply to
Abo

He's a Goth... what's your point? ;-)

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JackH

He should buy a black Celica. Most gloomy car I've been in with tinted windows. The entire interior was in black with black buttons and black panel lights that only showed if something happened. Black, black, black, black black black. Black like the crows that flap from my paintings shredding the flesh from the blackened diseased corpses...

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Steve Firth

%steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Have a little play with the car configurator on Maserati's website. You can pick colours and materials for the dash, trim, seats, carpets, stitching, headlining, steering wheel, seatbelts separately...

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Adrian

you're looking at the wrong websites, you want to try

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:-)

james

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jamesd1974

Having just Googled a bit I would be inclined to agree black an tan can be quite nice, it does need to be a good sized car though - I found a pic of a

5 series black and tan and that was nice. Some stuff that had black carpets still was quite nice too - It broke the interior up a bit more - especially in the back. Things like this though -
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- aren't bad, but NEED the roof up/on IMO. And 90s Mustangs are still shit.
Reply to
DanB

Quoth the raven .... 'Nevermore'....

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DanB

The Saab has black leather seats with black door cards, wood cappings and black console and dashboard with wood trim on the dash and centre console. It works well with the dark green paint. It isn't gloomy. It would look very refined and doesn't need a window tint. With black paint it would look the nuts.

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Elder

I don't mean all black and gloomy, I just think black upholstery in a black car look look better than dirty white/cream/faded brown. I have no objection to wood trim, nice bright dials and chrome or brushed ali or stainless. It doesn't have to be a black ship with black windows, black seats, black light, and black buttons on a black console labelled in black with all the preset black controls set to fly into the heart of the sun.

Reply to
Elder

Do you work for Sedo parking or something

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Elder

See something like

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mirror black exterior paint is just stunning. Look at the Brabus Black Arrow about half way down the page.
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That looks just like what I would have in a Lexus given the choice, polished metal, leather, carbon, Alcantera. Satin (even though the review says matte, the pictures definatley say satin) paint looks stunning when that well applied.

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is a nice car.

Reply to
Elder

I went to that picture all hopeful. But it's crashingly dull. Competent, maybe - but it's not saying anything more than that to me.

Reply to
Clive George

What about the Brabus Black Arrow though, that is something else.

Reply to
Elder

Well, it's black. And technologically stunning. But it's still visually dull - starting from a moderately bland 4 door saloon, it can't do anything else.

(of course part of the point of it is to be dull - it's just that they've succeeded...)

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Clive George

Grey can work. Tan never does (the C220 W204 I borrowed had "sand" interior - looked like baby poo) but really cream or black is the way to go unless you're going two tone.

I reckon for a big black car it's got to be black leather with dark grey or blue alcantara inserts - I'm actually not a fan of full slippy leather seats.

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Tim S Kemp

There's some real bad combos as well - when I bought my A class the salesman really wanted rid of an A160, petrol, auto, in powder blue with blue leather and blue dash and door cards, full designo interior so it was top quality but completely devoid of taste and decency.

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Tim S Kemp

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