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New Merino color - Taupe Gray/Atlas Gray?
While checking the BMW.de konfigurator today I noticed a new leather color that allows the luxury/comfort/multi-function option as well…. Taupe Gray with Atlas Gray. Can anyone confirm this is now available? I didn’t see it on the UK configurator so maybe it’s limited rollout so far. While I prefer the Silverstone color to Taupe Gray, I could go with TG to get the ZLS option with Merino. If anyone has actual pictures of this please share.
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OHV_44 or any of our other European friends able to give any insight into this?
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Nobody here has noticed it yet. I haven't been able to find any current ones from TG leather yet.
You can already see it in the French configurator, always only with comfort seats. |
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Any chance of Merino in all black?
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It looks like BMW chose the gray with every leather color so it connects to gray on the upper door cards. Probably a cost cutting move rather than having many different colors/door combinations in the factory. But I also prefer one color for the entire seat, though the tow-tone doesn’t look awful.
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That’s what I noticed…always only with comfort seats. Thanks for confirming. I found the taupe color as an option on 7 series and X5 so maybe BMW considers this as only for luxury seats.
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BMW needs to get their head out of their ass. If I buying ~ $100k car, I want real leather and not this synthetic shit. The only real leather is this two-tone crap that looks like it was pulled out of a hyundai. Come on. Also this scam of a B&W system is another kick in the nuts.
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I specifically bought leather because of the two tone seats. I think the gray with brown looks reallly nice, but I also love real wood and the new homes they are building around me have ‘luxury vinyl flooring’. You should not use luxury and vinyl in the same sentence. It seems most car manufacturers using vegan ‘leather’ are secretive about the material used. If someone is trying to save the planet by not killing cows, they wouldn’t be happy with seats made of hydrocarbon chains, which is likely.
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When I test drove the 540iX at the dealer a couple weeks ago, they had Individual Merino leather samples on a display rack. Below is a picture comparing Taupe Gray with others. Left to right is: Caramel, Taupe Gray, Black, Champagne.
It was a somewhat cloudy morning but otherwise plenty of daylight to see the colors. If the starting assumption is that taupe is somewhere between brown and gray, then Taupe Gray is definitely more gray than brown. Second image is BMW.de configurator showing Silverstone/Atlas Gray (top) vs Taupe Gray/Atlas Gray (bottom). I think the configurator shows it more brown than it actually is. Edit....BTW, I believe the option code for Taupe Gray/Atlas Gray luxury seats in the G60 is FZCJP.
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I had taupe carpet once in my house. It looked grey next to something brown but brownish next to something grey. So, it really could be that brown in the bottom pic.
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