What happened to modern interiors? Why are they mostly dull?

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This affect seems fairly universal across almost all makes, models and from every country. Most modern interiors on the whole are bilge...

dull, dank, dingy boring affairs that are obviously designed to make you fall asleep should you look at them for more than 20 seconds.


It wasn't always this way. Ok, there are a few modern cars this might not apply too, but on the whole unless you looking at a Bentley or a Ferrari it is true.


Interiors used to be fun, interesting, cool and entertaining or just sumptuous. Now it's just a sea of grey and black plastic and pretty much the same basic dash shape in most cars, with no personality.



Example.


What an awesome looking interior!!


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dme123 said:

I concur that many modern interiors are very drab but none of your "old" examples are humdrum ordinary cars of that time, whereas all of your "new" ones are. For example a Morris Marina had an interior that was awful, as did every other mainstream stbox my dad ever had. A modern Astra has an interior with far more appeal than a Mk1/Mk2 and so on.

If you look at modern sports cars and high end cars you can specify some really classy and tasteful interior colour schemes and there are some interesting designs. It's not the manufactures fault if every drone picks "coal bunker black" for his company vehicle.

I agree, not all old/older cars have nice interiors. But plenty did. And it's mainly not about the tactile feel, but the visuals.

This looks pretty good for a non high end car, albeit a sporting one.


And as basic as this is, at least it isn't boring to look at..

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kambites said:

I don't think anyone is saying that the older cars are actually better inside, just that they're more interestingly styled.

Exactly.

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Digby said:

Modern to me = too clinical & devoid of character.You can look and look away again and not have missed much.

Old = warm and welcoming with a certain charm that will keep your attention as your eyes find new things to admire.

I admit I'm a huge fan of proper wood and leather.

But there are some nice interiors out there, for me it's about not being boring and little interesting nuances.

I think Lotus have continually delivered nice looking interiors.






But some old cars have a far more 'modernistic' look to them. And they look friggin awesome too!!!

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PGNCerbera said:

Thankyou4calling said:

That first Mercedes interior (2nd pic) is, to my mind superb and defeats the point of your argument.

Correct.

The 1st pic is a Mercedes interior too!

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gizlaroc said:

This was the colour of the one I was in....




I actually thought it felt like a homage to old skool design.

And the iPad type screen doesn't look anywhere near as pronounced when you are sat in the car, the top of it only sits in line with the dash and it doesn't stick up half as much as it looks in pictures.

That actually doesn't look to be tbh. I just wonder how many in the UK look like that though? At a recent car show Merc had a big marketing stand, with a classic 300SL Gullwing and 6 or 7 of their current range, a number of them AMG's. All of the new ones had the same boring black interior.