INTERIOR COLOUR MOOD SWING

[mercrocker]

Followed with interest some of the posts on the Grin thread about interior colours as it has always been something I have been extremely sensitive to.    One of the happier times of my life was spent owning a 260E Merc but the car depressed me particularly as a passenger.   Totally down to the dull John Major theme within its grey trim.   It felt like the roof was half an inch above my head, made the outward vision tank-like and the only time I was happy in the car was at night.    The 190E we now have is cream inside and warms my well-being like a lightly scorched creme brulee....

Other things that have made me prod the Samaritans speed-dial were a Mk2 Golf with blue vinyl that looked like it belonged in a nursing home (not my car thank God) and the (also grey) confines of Mrs Rocker's Microbe until I made her bin it.    

 

I love the chaotic mess inside my Minor, the red leather lining of my Oxford and the smell-tastic hair-shirtery of the Cowley.   I also lurrvve Green interiors - my Pontiac Grand Prix was like a pimp's coke-snorting parlour crossed with a close-out sale at Maples in the 1980s.   But grey, never, never again.   I also fancy 60s black leather like a Mk2 Sceptre or 2000E Corsair (ATCNBE....etc!)

 

What is your nemesis/comfort zone

[vulgalour]

Another vote for grey interiors being miserable.  Grey can work if it's partnered with some other colour, but they either end up a depressing desaturated expanse of cheap plastic or a claustrophobic box of charcoal hues.  Having said that, I was never bothered too much by the grey interior in the BX, possibly because the switches were interesting and the seats were absurdly comfortable and took my mind off it.

 

My very favourite interiors are red, particularly if it's velour and vinyl.  This could be because I am keen on the Tart's Boudoir school of interior design.

 

More conservatively I'm very fond of brown interiors.  They always just feel right and comfortable, like a grandparent's living room.

[Pillock]

Here's the BMW 318 I briefly owned..... 

 

[Lord Sterling]

I like the interior of my Sterling. Its a rather relaxing, opulent place to be:

 

 

The interior of the Mk1 Sterling is fantastically 80s. I love it:

 

Nemisis?

 

Audi/VW interiors have always seemed/felt a bit low rent to me. Particularly in Black interiors where the satin top coat on plastics seem to flake/scratch off revealing the very shiny plastic underneath.

 

Some last run pre-Vectra Cavaliers interiors seemed a little bit too Grey and low rent in my opinion, but they do seem well put together.

[Station]

I don't like grey interiors, but this one was so comfy and cosseting driving it in the dark:

 

 

My Merc E220 had a grey interior, it was too airy and big:

 

 

Nissan Z31 was blue and looked uninviting, but the seats were "unbelievably" comfy, and again nice to drive in the dark with all the 80's orange lighting.

 

[Junkman]

Hmpf...

 

 

 

 

 

[Cavcraft]

Mk5/6/7 Escort interiors honestly fill me with despair. The whole thing from smell to looks make me physically shiver when I get in them. Add the smell of diesel and I'm shaking like a smackhead who's lost his methadone prescription.

[eddyramrod]

I'm not that keen on beige, brown or grey interiors (he says, having just sold a small car with a lovely grey interior!) but the one I really dislike is black.

Er... as I was saying?  I stripped out all the sand-coloured Mayfair interior from this and replaced it with red-piped black from a Red Hot edition.  To be fair, I did the car a big favour in condition terms.  The Mayfair interior didn't look the part at all.

On the whole I'm with Vulgalour, the best interior you can have is red, preferably velour.  Leather is nice (smells gorgeous!) but it does suffer with the heat/cold issues that vinyl does.

Detroit used to be very very good at colour-coding.  You'd get an interior that matched the paintwork.  This was my green Cadillac...

Sadly, they seem to have lost the skill these days and gone for the same grey leather as everyone else.

I agree about VAG interiors, I've never got a feeling of being in something "special" from them.  Mind, none of the rest of the experience has done it for me either.

[Station]

Also agree on VAG and modern interiors - they missed the point with 'excellent build quality' by including the seats in that. I could make a comfier chair out of LEGO bricks.