Exactly right! Jerry Flint makes a lot of sense and that's why I enjoy reading his stuff. I agree, ban the mouse-fur gray and "neutral" (now there's an exciting color) interiors! I want blue, green, gold, red, white, teal, chocolate brown, maybe even '67 Oldsmobile yellow, anything but gray!
I understood that Detroit manufacturers have outsourced most/all of their interior work to places like Lear and Magna, so maybe they don't know how to build a good interior any more? Even when they try - I'm thinking of the colors used in the Thunderbird interior, or the red in Sunfires a few years back, or the white in Cavalier convertibles - they can't make it look right. They plop the color into a gray/black interior and it sticks out like a sore thumb.
I imagine it is mostly due to cost cutters. In the early days of the industry, color-coordinated interiors were rare. In the 40s and 50s it began to happen as a way to differentiate your product and only bottom-line models had the basic gray or brown. But in the 70s and 80s when people started buying imports which usually only came with gray interiors, the cost analysts probably argued that it no longer mattered. Well, maybe now it does again.
I understood that Detroit manufacturers have outsourced most/all of their interior work to places like Lear and Magna, so maybe they don't know how to build a good interior any more? Even when they try - I'm thinking of the colors used in the Thunderbird interior, or the red in Sunfires a few years back, or the white in Cavalier convertibles - they can't make it look right. They plop the color into a gray/black interior and it sticks out like a sore thumb.
I imagine it is mostly due to cost cutters. In the early days of the industry, color-coordinated interiors were rare. In the 40s and 50s it began to happen as a way to differentiate your product and only bottom-line models had the basic gray or brown. But in the 70s and 80s when people started buying imports which usually only came with gray interiors, the cost analysts probably argued that it no longer mattered. Well, maybe now it does again.