What's your opinion on cream leather interior please?

[mightychipster]

Hi,

Looking at a few Jaguar XF's as a replacement for my recently written off car.

I do like the look of one particular XF that has cream leather interior

My wife hate's it as we've always had black/dark interiors, but I kind of like it. Has anyone got any real experience living with a cream interior that you can share? What's your thoughts, is it as awful as my wife seems to think it is?

[duff]

I like a cream interior (or tan). Caramel or grey, not so much.

Main thing for me is that the carpets, and preferably most of the dash, are black.

[Decky_Q]

My bro in law has this interior in his jag and it still looks good at 180k, his doesnt seem grubby or marked despite 2 kids and working in construction. He also has the very light coloured wood trim so it's a nice bright place to be.

[Pica-Pica]

Not for me.

[PositronicRay]

I like it, but (for me) it doesn't wear well so it's a no.

[paradigital]

I've always been a fan of lighter interior colours, far less like sitting in a dark cave. Black can be "ok" when there's a decent degree of daylight in the cabin (decent sized sunroof or panoramic roof for example, or a convertible with the roof off), but I always find a cabin feels less clostrophobia inducing when it's a nice light colour.

I miss the light grey (rock grey?) interior I had in my Audi S3 Saloon, and I love the "Aniseed" interior in my Mk1 3.2 V6 Audi TT.

I wish my 440i had a lighter interior.

[TikTak]

I fully admit it can look good in certain situations/cars but I don't think I'd ever want it in my car.

[Ardennes92]

Personally I would always choose a lighter interior and have actually discounted vehicles where only black is available, not impressed climbing into a “coal bunker”, can’t say I have had any trouble with wear in any of the coloured interiors I have had.

[RazerSauber]

I like a cream interior. I find it brightens the car interior up and it's not a cornucopia of black. It shows up dirt much more though.

I remember seeing a tan interior on a Lotus Esprit that Wheeler Dealers did. That looked awful to me. A nice light cream colour is the nuts to me though.

[Hants PHer]

I would not consider a car with an interior in any colour other than black. Even stone grey - as found in some Porsches - is a no no. The worst ever was a Porsche 993 that had a Metropole Blue interior, which I had changed to black at considerable cost. I also really dislike those two tone interiors that you sometimes see. Therefore cream leather is a big NO from me.

That said, the only exterior colour I wouldn't have is black.........

[anonymous-user]

I love cream leather seats, but I hate it when the carpets, dashboard, wheel are also the same colour.

[Jamescrs]

Previous car (BMW M240i) had an ivory interior which was basically a light cream with black dash, carpets and roof lining. I owned the car three years and whilst I did like it, it was a nightmare to keep clean and could easily look scruffy. I wear jeans for work and any new jeans were a nightmare for leaving die on the seats.
They show wear badly in my experience too.

When I bought my current car I was adamant I wouldn't have a light interior again, my current car is black leather. The dealer I traded my car in with saw the light interior as a big selling point and said it would appeal to buyers.

[SFTWend]

I think light coloured trim against dark paint looks great. Lovely, airy and luxurious looking. But, as said above, quickly shows ingrained dirt and blue die from jeans. Can be kept looking great with regular leather cleaner and preserver.

Far more practical is dark trim and light paint, which doesn't highlight stone chips so much.

[DanL]

Love the light interior in my car, but I wouldn’t have it if I had young kids or a dog…

[valiant]

We have light grey leather interior and it certainly lifts what would be a very dark interior. Has got light grey accents on the door cards as well and I think it looks much better than black.

Would have preferred tan leather but I'm in the anything but black camp and will actively seek out a light interior.

[biggbn]

mightychipster said:

Hi,

Looking at a few Jaguar XF's as a replacement for my recently written off car.

I do like the look of one particular XF that has cream leather interior

My wife hate's it as we've always had black/dark interiors, but I kind of like it. Has anyone got any real experience living with a cream interior that you can share? What's your thoughts, is it as awful as my wife seems to think it is?

What's your opinion? That's all that matters surely?

[55palfers]

Light interiors are great, just don't wear jeans or Barbour jackets.

[cerb4.5lee]

We had Ivory White leather(and cream carpets/floor mats) in the F13 640d. I loved how it lifted the interior, however it was a pain in the backside to look after with 2 kids though. So since then we've always gone for boring black leather interiors/black carpets instead.

The lighter interiors do look miles better than black though for me.

[Roger Irrelevant]

A lighter interior would always be my strong preference. Gleaming white would be going too far but cream is fine. I had an Outback with a cream interior that was treated like a skip but even after months of neglect and general kid-related muckiness it still scrubbed up just fine.

[Ezra]

I've just got rid of a BMW 730d with cream leather interior. Admittedly, I wasn't hauling rubble and muck to the tip every week, but I wasn't anal about it either. It stayed looking absolutely gorgeous. The only aspect that did, on close inspection, look a little less than pristine were the cream seat belts.