Wood belongs on your house. (just my opinion.) not IN your car.
I AM SURE tons of people will agree with me, but just wont say it to offend others.
Even if its a benz or beemer or bentley or phantom. Ever see the phantom with all black, with the wood taken out, looked way better.

 

I AGREE

 

lets compare shall we.





ALL BLACK INTERIOR IS THE ONLY WAY TO GO.DOMO

 

Except that neither picture you posted is ALL black..

 

I also have the wood trim. Love it. I guess the only reason why it's not standard is because they know people will pay more to get it.

I have it with the graphite interior....looks amazing.

 

The wood looks classier and more luxurious looking to me. I love it, and at $300 MSRP is a great price! The washi aluminum didn't look right in a luxury car. My previous car had wood too, which was nice, but it had a shiny finish. The flat finish of the African rosewood looks more like actual wood, as compared to the shiny wood finish in other cars (which are real wood, but just doesn't look right being shiny). Anyway, everyone's got their own opinion, and it's good to have options! The wood with graphite looks great with the black interior (not just the light colored ones as others have mentioned).

 

I have black and personally don't like the wood with my color combination.Better with beige interior.
I would have possibly gotten wood if it was available in a black wood tone,i've seen it on few vehicles i think it's called "african zembrano".It's a black toned wood looks real nice.Also wood not available on sport which was a must have option.

 

As promised my wife took pictures of the after market wood trim with graphite interior. But I am having trouble posting the photos from my wife's MAC. Help Please.

 

bmw calls it anthracite and its sick...wish the g's offered it.

 

here's one way...
i assume the photos are in iphoto? select the photos you want in iphoto, go to File/Export, select "scale images no larger than" and type in 600 for width, JPEG for output, click "Export", choose the desktop as the location.

if you're not using iphoto, the photos from your camera are probably JPEGs. get them on your computer and drag the ones you want to upload to the desktop. if your images are RAW, you probably know how to convert them to JPEGs.

go to "www.tinypic.com". click "choose file". browse to the desktop and select the photo. click "upload now". once the file is uploaded, options are given to link to the uploaded photo. copy the one that has [img]... , and paste it in a reply here.

(putting your images on the mac desktop isn't necessary, it's just an easy way to find the ones you want when uploading.)

 

In my opinion the alum looks a little cheap especially since the hard plastic in the console looks REALLY cheap. I think I could live with the alum if the other plastics were a little higher quality.

Wood helps a little in this case.

I think the best combo is the wood and black interior. Since I have a IP it's wood and wheat. My second choice.

 

There is cheap plastic in the console?

 

My 2 cents...

Wood and Stone interior -- Bad. Very bad!

Wood with Graphite or Wheat interior -- It can look good, but depends on taste.

I had to order my car. When I was in dealer ordering, I looked at several cars on the lot that had wood and, as real wood, there was too much variation in the look of the wood (mostly in the grain). One car it looked great (graphite). Two other cars it looked good (one graphite and one wheat). And the last car was just bad (graphite). It looked worse than bad Chrysler faux wood from the 90s. And if you know what I am talking about you know how bad that looked.

I probably would have skipped wood anyway, but that one car made my decision. There was no way I was going to get wood without being able to see it firsthand.

 

thats not all black interior, seat are white....i got the G35S all black with polished aluminun...and im in LOOOOOVE withthat interior....

 

I am talking about the pebble finish hard plastic that makes up the entire console. Continues up the control stack area and finally makes up the dash.

The stuff looks cheap, feels cheap, and am I sure was inexpensive.

In another area you go from pebble to smooth plastic around the heated seat controls. Just doesn't look as good as the german competition.

How about the door trim including the crap that surrounds the door pull and window switches? Do you like that?

While I'm griping how about the two console door panels ( ash tray and cup holders ). They went to the extra effort to control the speed in which these open and close, to give the appearance of high end, and yet the cup holder door panel looks like it cost 5 cents.

If fact the only thing I don't really care for is the plastics in general but I guess when your adding as many features as the G has at 40k you have to skimp somewhere.

However I do love just about everything else about the car and hope that I continue to enjoy it long term.