Ferrari needs to stop using tan carpets

Mine is euro and has tan carpet and mats. I don't mind the look but it gets grubby easily. I swapped the tan mats for black ones for a nice contrast... much better.

 

They have a dark brown that looks great with tan upholstery. Don't blame Ferrari for tan carpets. People can get whatever they want. in the early 80s tan became popular and now people have it stuck in their mind.

 

I had dark brown carpet with tan seats in my GTB and it was a great look. Much better than Ferrari's tan.

 

Same idea here. I just received my black mats a few days ago. Can't wait to see how they look this weekend! What kind did you get?

Kevin

 

I love the tan interior on my 328 and just discovered i had a beautiful set of coco brown floor matts in my closet for years that I forgot about , they look so good, that I just ordered the same color dash cover ..

 

I also absolutely cannot stand the tan carpets. I really hate them, on all cars or trains or in real estate.

When I bought my red/tan F355 back in 2014 in Switzerland, there were 25 cars on offer in red/tan, 24 with tan carpets, 1 with black carpets.

I bought the one with black carpets, which also came with red floor mats above the original black floor mats. My F355 dream combination luckily ❤️

 

Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

Contrasting interior colors look better than full-color interiors. At least when the contrasting colors go well together, which black does with everything as you say.

Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

I have a yellow 308 with all black interior. It's the Newman car, a lovely restoration that has well stood the test of time, the whole interior was new a few years ago. Not long after purchase, due to a late night spell of online shopping I was the bemused recipient of some nice new horsey floormats. Cost a small fortune, black with big yellow cavallinos, just beautiful. They live in one closet or another and I stumble upon them from time to time. They're too nice for me, I should have bought good red zin instead. The ones that came with it were new anyway. One possible use for your new mats, when your wife says she has new shoes just pull out the mats and one up her. Maybe she'll kink up and walk on you with her new shoes while you lay on your new mats. That may or may not be interesting. Well hopefully you'll like it. She's going to do it anyway.

 

I'll take a large mint chocolate chip

 

I think everyone gets the point: Taste is very subjective

 

My 456m had tan I used it as a DD put clear mats over and never had a problem.
My FF has black that show every thing so I use the same mats work great.

 

love tan carpets. a little contrast is good (stitching, black dash) but black carpets never look great with an otherwise tan interior. either go all black or mostly tan. which is how most cars are spec-ed anyhow

 

Super cheap ones from ebay Australia. Fit perfect.

 

Looks navy blue to me.

 

Yes, it is. Sorry if I was not clear as I was agreeing black carpets match with anything as the OP said in his first post. I was just posting an example of a contrasting interior, which is one of my favorites.

The car photographed is a "highline" version of the E38. For the US, it was either midnight blue or orinocco (green). The blue came with a blue/beige interior and green came with a green/beige interior. Here is a green one, which I think still looks great: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2001-bmw-740il-19/

More info here: http://www.e38registry.org/what-exactly-makes-a-us-market-740il-a-highline-and-why-did-some-come-from-bmw-individual/

 

I love that highline interior. I was looking for a nice highline 740iL, but got suckered into a black/black V12.

Robb, I agree with you on the tan, especially once the cars get a little age on them.

 

I went and looked at a Boxster once. Silver. Sharp car from the outside, factory hardtop, pretty nice. opened the door.....SEAFOAM green inside.

sjd

 

The color is actually called Castoro

 

This rings true for me because it was one of my wish list items when I was looking for a 430 spider many years ago. When I saw the dealer pictures with the black carpeting I was sold.

Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk

 

I guess I'm with you Robb. To each their own but the beige/tan carpets of the older cars sometimes look like they have a gold/yellow hue and with a tan/cuoio leather interior it clashes. Black carpets solve this and adds good contrast. So does Alcantara or leather on the floor but that's for a very special build.

I have a German car with beige carpets that is quite lovely though. With polished burlwood trim and offsetting darker colors from the same pallet on the dash and doors it all looks great so it can work.