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Originally Posted by Osnabrueck Mercedes runs the gamut with its line, from underwhelming to spectacular. They've held the luxury torch for so many decades I don't find their interiors disingenuous - that dubious honor goes to Lexus. |
LOL - well you are probably correct there Osna ...I would agree with you that Mercedes' interiors are not disingenuous, but they do tend to pander to rather conventional expectations - I'm not suggesting that Mercedes is not innovative or boring (with regard to interior styling) but they not very adventurous.
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Now there's an important distinction with the cars you mentioned above - They're sports cars. Sports cars tow an entirely different line than do cars like the S-Klasse, the Maybach 62 or anything in-between. They don't carry the driver's gonads in the form of chrome accents and slabs of wood much as they do in performance claims.
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True - but my main point here is that these interiors (Veyron, CGT, Zonda) were conceived at a much higher level of design than the luxury cars you named. The Zonda for example is so beyond the parameters of average taste - in fact issues of "good taste" simply do not even apply at this level. The Zonda's interior might look like Thierry Mugler's bedroom but it exudes an uncompromising self-confidence that one does not find in your average BMW or Mercedes-Benz. I will add though, that the Rolls-Royce Phantom certainly comes much closer to this level of design than many have credited it with - I continually hear how "old-fashioned" the Phantom's interior is - well I beg to differ - it certainly pays homage to the aesthetics of the past, but the Phantom is quintessentially 21st century, the designers did a brilliant job, the Phantom could quite easily have been a grotesque pastiche of Rolls-Royces of the past, but instead it reinterprets the classic Rolls-Royce character for our time - it is quite an achievement.