C-Class (W204) 2008 - 2014: C180K, C200K, C230, C280, C300, C350, C200CDI, C220CDI, C320CDI

Black vs Grey interior color on a White C-Class

Thread Tools
 
Search this Thread
 
Rate Thread
 
Old 01-26-2008, 10:06 PM
  #1  
Almost a Member!
Thread Starter
 
mosquad's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Montreal, QC, Canada
Posts: 74
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Toyota and planning to get a Sport C300, White, Manual, 18" AMG rims, MM, HK Sound.
Black vs Grey interior color on a White C-Class

Has anybody seen a grey interior on white exterior?
What would you recommend?
Old 01-26-2008, 10:13 PM
  #2  
Member
 
sou98's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 79
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
MB 2008 C300 sport, 2008 Rally blue Subaru Impreza 2.5 SI 1995 MB C280 W202
Originally Posted by mosquad
Has anybody seen a grey interior on white exterior?
What would you recommend?
don't do that (white / grey).... I got white C300 RWD with black interior and with aluminium panel instead of dark wood panel. The grey interior look awful (that is my opinion) especially with MB tex material or even with leather.
Old 01-26-2008, 10:15 PM
  #3  
MBWorld Fanatic!
 
Stiggs's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 7,892
Received 7 Likes on 6 Posts
2003 CLK55
Honey has white with black. Its great. Don't do it any other way!
Old 01-26-2008, 10:16 PM
  #4  
Senior Member
 
itcrashed's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: East Bay, CA
Posts: 387
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
MB w204 C300 Sport, Audi B7 A4 2.0TQ, Porsche Cayman 981
I think grey/black inside of white looks great...here are some pics from the Official Picture sticky...

https://mbworld.org/forums/showpost....6&postcount=24

It looks so good - thats what I ordered! (Of course everyone has their own opinion...hopefully you can make yours.)
Old 01-27-2008, 01:49 AM
  #5  
MBWorld Fanatic!
 
mac911's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 1,321
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
C300 Sport/Palladium Silver on Black/P2
I have all black. If I had picked myself, I might have went with grey/black cause I think the contrast is really attractive.
Old 01-27-2008, 02:04 AM
  #6  
MBWorld Fanatic!
 
chilledbenz's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: United States
Posts: 1,828
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
2008 R350 & 2008 C300
Depends you didn't state if it was a Sport or a Lux model? The grey/black of the Sport model looks awesome, I have it in my Obsidian Black car and its two tone with grey seats and door inserts, but has black carpets, bottom doors, dash, and center console. The grey interior of the Lux model is just two shades of grey and not very inspiring.
Old 01-27-2008, 09:28 PM
  #7  
Almost a Member!
Thread Starter
 
mosquad's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Montreal, QC, Canada
Posts: 74
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Toyota and planning to get a Sport C300, White, Manual, 18" AMG rims, MM, HK Sound.
Originally Posted by chilledbenz
Depends you didn't state if it was a Sport or a Lux model? The grey/black of the Sport model looks awesome, I have it in my Obsidian Black car and its two tone with grey seats and door inserts, but has black carpets, bottom doors, dash, and center console. The grey interior of the Lux model is just two shades of grey and not very inspiring.
It's for the Sport model in white.
Old 01-27-2008, 09:30 PM
  #8  
Almost a Member!
Thread Starter
 
mosquad's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Montreal, QC, Canada
Posts: 74
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Toyota and planning to get a Sport C300, White, Manual, 18" AMG rims, MM, HK Sound.
I guess I need to see both with my own eyes, cause you can't choose a color just from pictures.
Old 01-27-2008, 09:32 PM
  #9  
Almost a Member!
Thread Starter
 
mosquad's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Montreal, QC, Canada
Posts: 74
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Toyota and planning to get a Sport C300, White, Manual, 18" AMG rims, MM, HK Sound.
Originally Posted by itcrashed
I think grey/black inside of white looks great...here are some pics from the Official Picture sticky...

https://mbworld.org/forums/showpost....6&postcount=24

It looks so good - thats what I ordered! (Of course everyone has their own opinion...hopefully you can make yours.)
Yeah, I think this is the only one I saw on the forum... It looks nice
I hope the dealer will have both colors to show me...
Old 01-27-2008, 09:44 PM
  #10  
MBWorld Fanatic!
 
chilledbenz's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: United States
Posts: 1,828
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
2008 R350 & 2008 C300
Originally Posted by mosquad
It's for the Sport model in white.
It's a sport than you need to check out the grey/black interior it looks amazing compared to the black option. Here's a shot of mine, its Obsidian Black but you get the idea of the grey/black interior.

Old 01-27-2008, 10:06 PM
  #11  
Almost a Member!
Thread Starter
 
mosquad's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Montreal, QC, Canada
Posts: 74
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Toyota and planning to get a Sport C300, White, Manual, 18" AMG rims, MM, HK Sound.
Originally Posted by chilledbenz
It's a sport than you need to check out the grey/black interior it looks amazing compared to the black option. Here's a shot of mine, its Obsidian Black but you get the idea of the grey/black
Thanks for the pic
I like the contrast... In fact, my original choice was grey (maybe it's because in the brochure, there's a little grey touch)



I will have a look at it to see the texture of the grey artico.
Old 01-28-2008, 01:04 AM
  #12  
MBWorld Fanatic!
 
chilledbenz's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: United States
Posts: 1,828
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
2008 R350 & 2008 C300
Originally Posted by mosquad
Thanks for the pic
I like the contrast... In fact, my original choice was grey (maybe it's because in the brochure, there's a little grey touch)



I will have a look at it to see the texture of the grey artico.
The link the other poster posted is pictures of the grey/black leather interior, my picture is of grey/black MBTex or Artico where your from. Thought I would add that, even though its too hard to tell the difference between the two in pictures.
Old 01-28-2008, 11:04 AM
  #13  
Member
 
Star & Laurel's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 208
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
C 350 Obsidian Black
If they made the gray interior be the same as the Saks edition beige interior I would have gotten Gray with my Obsidian black C350. With the current gray interior I find too much gray inside. The Saks edition seems to put out a better look of a two tone interior. The dash is still all black just with the seats and middle inserts in the doors being beige. Where I feel the gray interior has too much gray in it, and the gray going onto the dash seems to pull away from it.
Old 01-28-2008, 02:03 PM
  #14  
Junior Member
 
rolodoc's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 25
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
2008 C300 Sport
I think the grey/black goes well with aluminum trim in the C300 Sport. All black goes well with the dark wood trim in the C350.
Old 01-28-2008, 03:13 PM
  #15  
MBWorld Fanatic!
 
chilledbenz's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: United States
Posts: 1,828
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
2008 R350 & 2008 C300
Originally Posted by Star & Laurel
If they made the gray interior be the same as the Saks edition beige interior I would have gotten Gray with my Obsidian black C350. With the current gray interior I find too much gray inside. The Saks edition seems to put out a better look of a two tone interior. The dash is still all black just with the seats and middle inserts in the doors being beige. Where I feel the gray interior has too much gray in it, and the gray going onto the dash seems to pull away from it.



I think the grey on the dash wraps around the car and blends better, but if your looking for the second color to stand out more, than yes the all black with just a splash of beige does the trick.
Old 01-28-2008, 04:29 PM
  #16  
MBWorld Fanatic!
 
Derspeed's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Ohio
Posts: 2,424
Likes: 0
Received 3 Likes on 3 Posts
X3 and 2012 C coming soon
I have a white C with all black. I had to order the car because there was not one in the entire country that matched my config. It was worth the wait. There was one with grey though. The grey, while nice, looked a little too busy to me.
Old 01-29-2008, 12:07 AM
  #17  
MBWorld Fanatic!
 
rb23lb's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 1,914
Likes: 0
Received 5 Likes on 4 Posts
LOADED 08' C350 & 14' GLK-350 Diamond White (P1, MM, AMG Pkg, Ln Trkng, Htd Sts, Keylss Go)


not to mention always having to clean the color that rubs off pants and onto the gray seats... that sucks...

grey looks cheaper IMO, saw em both, picked black...

only would have rather had the SAK's beige
Old 01-29-2008, 12:39 AM
  #18  
MBWorld Fanatic!
 
chilledbenz's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: United States
Posts: 1,828
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
2008 R350 & 2008 C300
Originally Posted by rb23lb


not to mention always having to clean the color that rubs off pants and onto the gray seats... that sucks...

grey looks cheaper IMO, saw em both, picked black...

only would have rather had the SAK's beige
Don't have that problem with the grey/black in my C, but I do have a big problem with it in my ML. The C's grey is much much darker and it doesn't show near as bad. But while we are on the wishful thinking phase, I would love to have that brick brown color they are getting over seas, it comes off almost as a red.
Old 01-29-2008, 02:45 AM
  #19  
MBWorld Fanatic!
 
Savage c-300's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Irvine, CA
Posts: 1,008
Received 2 Likes on 2 Posts
C300 Sport, MM, P1
Originally Posted by chilledbenz
Don't have that problem with the grey/black in my C, but I do have a big problem with it in my ML. The C's grey is much much darker and it doesn't show near as bad. But while we are on the wishful thinking phase, I would love to have that brick brown color they are getting over seas, it comes off almost as a red.
ive seen pictures of the brick brown youre talking about, it looks bad a$$
Old 01-29-2008, 08:33 AM
  #20  
Super Member
 
PoaMike's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 552
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
C300 (W204) w/ MM, P1, & 18"amg's
I have black with grey. I thought the Black with black would have been... to dark? sometimes i wish i went with black sometimes im happy with my choice. But you just sit on it I like the grey for the contrast.
Old 01-29-2008, 12:50 PM
  #21  
Junior Member
 
dion's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Upland, CA
Posts: 42
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
08 C300, 04 Sienna XLE LTD AWD, 00 BMW M Roady, 98 SVT Contour
Originally Posted by rb23lb


not to mention always having to clean the color that rubs off pants and onto the gray seats... that sucks...

grey looks cheaper IMO, saw em both, picked black...

only would have rather had the SAK's beige

HAHA....I think the exact opposite, that black looks generic, two-tone looks better to me. But to each his own.

Anyways, I/we/my wife owns the C300 that "itcrashed" posted a link to. We love it, but yes, the gray/grey shows the dirt/stains very easily when compared to black, but I wouldn't have it any other way. It is also the leather package, not the MB Tex.
Old 02-01-2008, 03:12 PM
  #22  
MBWorld Fanatic!
 
360_iti's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Bloomfield Hills, MI
Posts: 2,255
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
W203, W211, W219, W212
Originally Posted by chilledbenz
That sir, is a beautiful combo!
I'd probably pick black over the normal 2-tone. Normally I'd pick the two-tone but the W204 grey for some reason didn't do it for me.
Old 02-01-2008, 07:22 PM
  #23  
Member
 
aansonsit's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Toronto CANADA
Posts: 118
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
08 C350 4Matic -Premium- Comand NAV-Keyless-GO-Panoramic-Rear Win Sunshade-Memory seat-Quickpark-AMG
black is better, i don't like grey colour match black colour in middle
Old 02-01-2008, 10:48 PM
  #24  
MBWorld Fanatic!
 
chilledbenz's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: United States
Posts: 1,828
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
2008 R350 & 2008 C300


Cognac Interior..just to tease you.
Old 02-02-2008, 01:56 AM
  #25  
Junior Member
 
dion's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Upland, CA
Posts: 42
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
08 C300, 04 Sienna XLE LTD AWD, 00 BMW M Roady, 98 SVT Contour
Originally Posted by chilledbenz


Cognac Interior..just to tease you.
Now that is beautiful!


You have already rated this thread Rating: Thread Rating: 0 votes,  average.

Quick Reply: Black vs Grey interior color on a White C-Class



All times are GMT -4. The time now is 10:22 AM.