Wood / Walnut trim

[williamp]

[Catatafish]

because pipe and slippers

The scourge of the used BMW/merc market. The worse ones in my eyes are the really light grey leather with orangey brown wood. Some combos should be denied from the ordering books.

Darker with less contrast between wood and leather looks ok (like the citroen above)

[Hub]

It needs to be dark, and it needs to be subtle. It looks particularly horrible on steering wheels!

[crosseyedlion]

I love mine, including the wood wheel. Most premium interiors are better with wood imo. I even test drove a C63 with wood trim and it lifted it hugely from the usual aluminium trim.

Mine...

[crostonian]

We once had an Audi RS4 in stock with wood trim, was impossible to sell so wound up wrapping it in fake carbon plastic trim, it sold straight away. Sure there's some irony here.

[chrispmartha]

The wood trim in the BMW i3 looks fantastic to me

[McSam]

The i3 is lovely, having a big chunk of untreated wood that's properly styled to go there.

I generally feel wood works better in cabins that have a variety of colours, like those with tan seats/carpets and black dash uppers. I'd forgotten about my old A4:



Similar to the E46 in having fairly small strips of a nice dark wood that has some visual depth. Not as good, especially around the front fascia where it looks a bit cheap, but still not actively offensive to my eye.

In the E46 it is real wood. I know this because some of the gearbox has chipped off but it's important that it should be. It's strange how some people violently object to wood interior, so long as it suits the cabin I don't see why not - just as faux carbon fibre can look right in some applications too.

[J4CKO]

Dont mind wood, but looked at a Volvo T5-R and didnt buy it as the trim looked exactly like a budget Co-Op coffin, bought a wood free T5 instead.