ares101

My wife wants to order her C Coupe in Palladium, but is not sure about the interior color. She wants Flamenco red, other options are black, sahara beige, and grey.
Any comments?

hyperion667

I have iridium silver and the ash looks sweet....also I have burl walnut and piano trim inside..........

AMGTTV8

really?

how do you have two different types of wood in 1 car?

ares101

What I meant by interior color, I meant color of the leather seats.

GuOD

My C350 is ordered as palladium w/ red interior all the press cars had this same color scheme so it's gotta be good

aluminum trim

http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2012-...#photo-4179389

hyperion667

, lol......I ordered the car.....with burl and door sills.....
it came with NO sills, and the console is in piano black...
would have rather had the burl there too because it looks so nice there...
but whatever....doesn't effect the power, haha....
but it does slightly adjust the inside vibe a hair or two....
and to the OP, I meant I have the ash leather inside.....

luminus

LoL. When I wanted to order the red interior, the sales was extremely worried that if I don't like the car and won't take it, they won't be able to find a 2nd buyer. Just FYI, red leather will likely make it harder to trade-in in the future.

I ended up picking steel gray + ash leather myself.

GuOD

I think it depends on the car, in my local parking lot there's TONS of bmw 3-series with red interior. I imagine when c-coupe is released it will be the same. I don't think it will be a tough resale color.

Sometimes you have to get what you want Resale after 4-5+ years I doubt will be much different.

luminus

Yea I might regret it . For now I'll keep my ability to turn down the car if it ends up somehow I really don't like it, since I never really got to test drive the coupe. Hopefully the Ash looks good too on a steel grey exterior.

Shake

Anything but the grey will look good in my opinion. This would be my ranking from best to worst (Just my opinion, don't want to offend any ash owners )

Red > Black > Beige > Ash

Edit: Actually I haven't seen the ash interior pictures on the 204 coupe but it would be fine if the dash/carpet was black for contrast. If the dash and carpet were light grey as well, I think it would look boring if that makes sense.

luminus

I like the black too, though I like how the other color kinda break up the remaining black interior, creating a nice dual-tone effect.

YYZ-E55

Palladium looks beautiful with Alpaca Grey; very classy.

luminus

Yea, that's exactly it. I specifically asked my sales if it'll have dark carpet/dash for contrast too. For the optional ash leather, dash's half black, door handle's black, back plastic of the chair's black, and carpet's dark too, at least, according to UK's Mercedes configurator. Strangely enough, for the free ash tex, the have a lot more greys (door handle, back of chair, and carpet are grey).

I'm keeping my fingers crossed it'll show up with the grey/black contrast as the UK photo suggests.

Shake

I hope it's like grey/black as well.

The two tone interior makes it look much more upscale. Here's a couple random pictures from google.

luminus

I'm hoping it'll come out closer to the 2nd photo in terms of color brightness (I think the lighter the grey the better looking, ignoring maintenance hell), but who knows. Yea, notice how one photo has a grey bottom-dash and the other has a black bottom-dash. On UK's Mercedes site, both tex/leather has grey bottom-dash I believe. I think I like the fully black dash more though.

Shake

Now that I look at the first picture more closely, I don't think it's the ash. The first picture might be the tan? That looks very similar to my friend's 2010 E350 with almond interior. Here is a picture that I took of his:



I also like the full black dash more. It looks much cleaner.

Edit: also take a look at this thread. http://mbjunkies.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=622

luminus

Agree. Wish they let ppl pick and choose. I don't like beige as much myself since it seems less sporty. Dunno why but it reminds me of lexus.

elijah

Two tone is the way to go!!

newyorktoLA

I like the two tone because you can get it for free if you order the Ash interior!

luminus

Seems like the free one has more greys on the plastic though. (e.g. back of chair.) Not quite as dual-ish.

Shake

The facelift 204 sedan is up on the website. Looks like it has a lot of grey if this is an indication of how the coupe interiors will look.

http://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/vehicl...WZ4#appearance

luminus

Not quite. This is what it looks like.

Nola

Red man... it is SWEET and sporty! At least in the pictures

Brav0

I would say red interior will look awesome with silver. I ordered mine in white with grey interior. I would have gone black on black but I already had c300 with that colour and wanted something different.

Nola

The ordering guide found elsewhere in this section has some pics of silver/red. It does look awesome.