Wood / Walnut trim

[ging84]

why do people do it on a modern cars, especially sporty ones?

I'm not suggesting it could never look good on anything made after 1974
I'm sure it looks perfect in a Rolls Royce and the Queen's range rover
but when i look for v8 coupés, roadster etc, every other car seems to have it, as you might have guess i've not a fan of it, but i honestly think in a lot of these modern car's it's not just not to my taste, it genuinely looks out of place and st.


i sum it up with this example of a 6 series full of black buttons and a dvd drive slots floating horribly in a light wooden dash

[ging84]

what i really don't understand about it is, why big v8s etc in particular, you don't see it in many honda jazzes or ford focuses, used to see it in a lot of rovers, but those days are thankfully over.