Anyone ever gone into a Payless Shoe Stores outlet? They post ads with photos of apparently stylish shoes for great prices, but when you actually see one in person, you see that it's basically made out of stiff, molded plastic. Tactile feel -- how switches engage, how surfaces feel when you run your hands over them, how much the steering wheel leather gives when you grasp it, whether you touch any seams or molding flashes when you grasp any of the controls -- play a huge part in how I perceive a car's interior quality.

The quote "discretion is the better part of valor" comes to mind whenever I see a Spyker interior...

 

A graph to plot interiors:

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Cheap............................................. .......High Quality
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............................Gaudy................. ..............

Spyker - bottom right corner
C4 Vette - bottom left corner
S2000 - just into the upper right
Lexus IS - half way into upper right
Aston DB9 - top right corner
MB C Class - top left

 

Lol, I like that chart so much Im gonna copy it and use it. Good stuff. Post of the week.

You should throw a few cars in at the top like

Lexus 460: Top upper right

 

I agree with Dr Wot, I like that plot. And that is why I also drive an S2000.

Spyker - bottom right corner
S2000 - just into the upper right
Ferrari 360 - three quarter way into upper right
Cayenne Turbo - half way into upper right

But the Spyker has No Plastic anywhere in sight. Think old Bugatti......

For the rest I can quote PedalFaster: Tactile feel -- how switches engage, how surfaces feel when you run your hands over them, how much the steering wheel leather gives when you grasp it, whether you touch any seams or molding flashes when you grasp any of the controls -- play a huge part in how I perceive a car's interior quality.

I always thought that the Spyker interior was way over the top, and would never have chosen ruby-red. But I learned to appreciate it, and now I'm totally used to it.

 

Awesome.

 

lol... are you serious?

 

Lots of cows intended for leather production (not just Rolls Royce, just about any leather product you want unblemished with scars) are ranched in areas without any sort of barbed wire.

 

If this source is correct, RR doesn't even use cows - only bulls:

"Each Phantom has 400 pieces of leather in it for the upholstery and trim using 17 to 18 hides per car. The leather comes from German Bavarian bulls, as they are larger, or sometimes from other bulls reared in Argentina or South Africa. A little known fact is that Rolls-Royce leather craftsmen only use bull hide, hide from cows they consider is of no use because it contains stretch marks!"

Rolls Royce Past, Present, and Future

 

I think that it is ironic that Rolls Royce is now owned by BMW. BMW has succeeded in developing a pathetic design language not only for one, but for two well respected marques. Maybe BMW will buy up Ferrari and put 50's style rear wings on them.

 

I guess that that is why Conolly went out of business. They could not find their cows back.