Jet Black Owners: Need your comments

Tom M5,

Just picked up my anthracite/caramel/burl walnut two and a half weeks ago. My last car -- a '95 Maxima SE -- was black exterior/black leather. Based on that experience, I decided never again to own black exterior (it shows everything) and black leather (I fried a couple of suited colleagues, who unwittingly agreed to a lift, after the car had been sitting in the sun all day long). I think the anthracite is a nice compromise. It definitely is more forgiving than black (jet or carbon) and -- my $.02 -- more distinctive (read, less common) than titanium. I suppose the caramel interior on the other hand will show the dirt more than black (particularly the mats), but it's way cooler. BTW, I tried to get Tom M5 as my Username. You must have beaten me by minutes! Whatever color, you're gonna love it!

Tom M

s maxwell,

As indicated in my previous post, I went with the anthracite/caramel combo. None of the pictures I've seen of the caramel do it justice, including my own:
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=969087&a=7104525&p=24039056
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=969087&a=7104525&p=24039059

(It's one of these two. I can't check 'cause Photopoint's website appears to be down currently. Anyway, the other is just the exterior.)

The pictures make it look like "sand," but it's much less beige. It's a deeper, richer, almost pumpkin shade (which I like even though I'm not generally partial to orange).

BTW, the www.bmwusa.com site lies! The virtual center (build your own) shows the all-leather option (which I have) encasing the gear shift in the caramel leather. Not true. The leather surrounding the gear shift is black, as is, of course, the dash.