Leather Interiors adds class to BMW’s and Audi’s

The German car manufacturers often seem to have a stranglehold on the luxury vehicle market. Many of the most popular “high end” luxury vehicles originate in Germany such as Porsche, Mercedes, Audi and BMW.

The German companies built their reputation on their very strong engineering skills, for decades German engineered cars dominated the quality engineering area of car making.

Porsche, Mercedes, and the other brands were so strong and reliable that people flocked to purchase these highest quality German engineered machines. Vauxhall in Birmingham produced identical vehicles that were manufactured in Germany with an Opel badge. Used Opel vehicles were very commonly selling for 50-60% more than their Midlands produced rivals purely because of the concept that they were better engineered and would be more reliable and last longer.

Also for decades this Germanic attention to the finer points of engine and gearbox design had a strange side effect, they paid virtually no attention whatsoever to the cars interiors, a basic Mini seemed to have a more refined interior design than a top of the range Porsche.

This trend became so ingrained that the poor interior design became a feature of German cars and was used to point out how they spent every ounce of thought on the cars engine and structure. Spartan car interiors seemed to be the only way that they knew how to build cars.






But like every aspect of modern motoring things have changed in the Rhineland’s motoring palaces, competition from other luxury rivals such as the Infinity models and the high end Japanese vehicles who were aimed squarely at the German luxury vehicles customers finally forced German manufacturers to look inside their vehicles.

Being perfectionists they considered every possible aspect of the interior design and over a period of a few years re-positioned the German luxury vehicles as both engineering marvels but also as incredibly well equipped vehicles with every possible interior extra and luxury imaginable.

They moved quickly from one extreme to the other, they added heated seating with complex adjustments of all kinds of lumbar support. The dashboards came alive with every conceivable instrument and onboard computing device. The whole interior would be redesigned from scratch to make the very most of the available space, so that endless luxury features could be added.

Once they had ever component built into the dash, centre consol and steering wheel, they turned their imagination to luxury features of eye pleasing design with BMW leather interiors setting the benchmark for luxury. Not to be outdone both Mercedes and Audi leather interiors surpassed their rivals in a tit for tat ever increasing luxury game in which the customer was the ultimate winner with stunning interior designs from all the luxury German manufacturers leading the high end market.

Darrell F writing about how to spruce up luxury cars with BMW leather interiors and Audi leather interiors. 

Leather Interiors adds class to BMW’s and Audi’s / Author: darrell.j.freeman@gmail.com