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2010 2011 BMW 5 Series Forum F10 BMW 5-Series (F10) Forums General 5-Series Sedan and Wagon (F10 / F11) Forum space gray with which color gut (interior)??
View Poll Results: which color interior on a Space Gray 5-series M-sport?
black leather w/ hexagon aluminum trim 38 52.78%
everest gray leather w/ anthracite wood trim 12 16.67%
other (please leave a comment) 22 30.56%
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      08-24-2011, 09:56 AM   #23
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      08-24-2011, 11:01 AM   #24
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i don't know guys, Everest Gray looks pretty sweet in these pics (thx Sonnie!)

any change of heart??
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      08-24-2011, 12:25 PM   #25
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I hate Everest Gray. It just makes the interior dull and featureless. And Black is dark and bleak.

Oyster-Black is by far the best, and that is why when BMW launched the 550i M-Sport in the US, they chose this interior.


The dealer loaned me a car in this colour/trim it was awful, the leather looks really yellow against the grey paint and silver trim. Cinnamon and anthracite looks the bizz
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      08-24-2011, 12:45 PM   #26
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i already have Oyster/Black in my wife's X5, i wanna switch it up.
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Black with anthracite headliner; simply classic.
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      08-24-2011, 11:44 PM   #28
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Yeah... we looked at the Oyster/Black and it did nothing for me at all. It just does not match the Space Gray color. The only colors that actually match are the Black and Everest Gray. If you are one of those that can wear two different colored socks that don't match, then maybe some of those other colors will work for you.
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Oyster or Cinnamon.

Space Gray on Everest gray would look totally washed out.
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Yeah... we looked at the Oyster/Black and it did nothing for me at all. It just does not match the Space Gray color. The only colors that actually match are the Black and Everest Gray. If you are one of those that can wear two different colored socks that don't match, then maybe some of those other colors will work for you.
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      08-25-2011, 05:32 AM   #30
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Agreed. The benefit of an interior that has enough light so you can see the details combined with dark contrasts makes the oyster "pop."

Added to the utility benefit of black carpet in places where people's feet stay situated.

Hello? Do you really know where peoples' feet have been?

Oyster black is not a color, it is a system. (TM)

Note: oyster black does not make your car interior look two tone.

Once you start deviating to cinnamon (how feminine sounding) then you lose the contrast and the interior starts to feel like a morgue.

Ask anyone who ever purchased cinnamon and 99.999% will tell you they regret it.

Oyster is like the pearl.
Pearl is like top shelf trim.
Trim is good.

Cinnamon? Two many f...ing syllables.

By the time you you enunciate the third syllable in "cinnamon" as you explain the color of your car to a woman her gay-dar is beeping like a traffic jam in new York city and she is outta here.

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Oyster/black looks so good. It's the 2010's now.
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      08-25-2011, 07:58 AM   #31
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      08-27-2011, 08:13 PM   #32
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beige with anthracite trim
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The dealer loaned me a car in this colour/trim it was awful, the leather looks really yellow against the grey paint and silver trim. Cinnamon and anthracite looks the bizz
Yellow? Maybe it was really dirty, as my Oyster / Black Nappa does not look at ALL yellow.
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Ask anyone who ever purchased cinnamon and 99.999% will tell you they regret it.
Actually most of them love it.
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Black leather with dark wood. Anthracite headliner.
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Black leather with dark wood. Anthracite headliner.
Bob, I thought you were out of your 20s by now.
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Sorry to dig up an old thread, but I just finished an agonizing decision process over this very question. Ultimately, I decided to go with Space Gray/Black Dakota/Anthracite Wood Trim & Headliner. My second choice was Everest gray interior, but I had that on my 330i that I'm trading and wanted something different. I love the looks of the Oyster & Black in the showroom and in pics, but I feared I would tire of it after a while, and the seats will be tough to keep clean. Beige doesn't match at all with Space Gray IMO.
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black leather with hexagon aluminum trim, of course.
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cinamo brown wth black high gloss trim (or piano)
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I ordered my 550xi with osyter/black; carbon black exterior; looks good on BMW's website
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Black interior and tinted windows looks great with space gray

Edit: Just saw you were interested in Hex alum trim. Do not get it. Scratches very easily. Mine is looking worn after just one year.
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Yeah... we looked at the Oyster/Black and it did nothing for me at all. It just does not match the Space Gray color. The only colors that actually match are the Black and Everest Gray. If you are one of those that can wear two different colored socks that don't match, then maybe some of those other colors will work for you.
+1

the oyster is too 'tan' for me on anything but black exterior. i wish they had a nappa option that was lt-grey/black.. i'm not a fan of the grey plastic surfaces.

which, by process of elimination, means it has to be black. preferably napa.
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