Jinx

talon90 -- thanks for posting the sales guide page, but I'd seen than and couldn't really tell what the base dash was like. Notice it looks totally different in the head-on view (dull and dark) than it does in the side view (bright like first-year C6 "aluminum" satin silver painted console).

BlueOx -- I had a feeling you would have squirreled one away. Thanks.

ZL-1 -- you said you checked it out at the Bash. Is it Carbon Flash Metallic or something lighter? It looks lighter in the photo BlueOx posted, like the dark-silver paint & plastic of some older Sony gear.


From the photo it doesn't look cheap exactly, but I didn't like the metallic-painted console on my 2005 C6 and I don't like the way this piece looks either. We'll see how it looks in person. I might try painting it to match the exterior -- I did that to the console and IP pods of my C6. Probably good for black or night race blue, maybe too much on lighter-colored cars since it's such a big piece.

.Jinx

Bill17601

The super tacky statement.. It is opinion. If you do not know what I mean you have a problem with comprehension as well as poor taste. In my opinion.

~Stingray

I wish we could do a 2lt+ option. haha.
I don't need/want the extra options that come with the 3LT, and I don't like the driver's side dash color change. But I do like the passenger side and the door panels that get colored.

Maybe I can find someone who did likes the opposite as me and we just swap dash covers. haha.

AFVETTE

I predict the 2LT will be the most popular single option ordered on the C7. Looking at all the options I could be happy with a 2014 C7 with just the 2LT option for less than $57K. Lots of bang for your buck.

Thrl_skr

Is the upper dash material the same in 1LT and 2LT?

~Stingray

I believe so. I don't think the dash changes until the 3LT where it gets real premium leather, a color change (if not black), and suede on the A and B pillars.

-CM-

Only with the $995 IWE option:

(IWE) Custom Suede-Wrapped Upper Interior Trim Package (requires 3LT; includes sunvisors, rear header trim, quarter window, front header trim, headliner, A-pillar trim).

Thrl_skr

Ok, that's what I thought too. If it's not leather or suede, what is the upper dash surface made of?

#1c6

i just wanted a stitching option, v/y with black interior with yellow stitching! i just dont understand why its not an option it was with the 2013.

-CM-

For the 3LT Kalahari and Brownstone, I know it is leather. I don't know about the other colors. I would guess leather, but cannot say for sure.

Thrl_skr

Agreed, leather for 3LT, but what about the 2 lower trim levels?

BlueOx

It's hard to say what it would look like in normal lighting. The pic below is obviously shot with a flash which might tend to add a bit more sparkle to the black bits.

Rapid Fred

I believe I am not nearly so hard-core as you, but I TOTALLY do not "get" leather seats in performance cars. To make them ALMOST as comfortable as cloth, you have to add even more weight with fans, heating, etc. And, you still slide around on the darn things. I was so lucky to have cloth seats on my first Vette (a '93 -- they only sold a few hundred with cloth that year which was the final year cloth seats were ever offered in a Vette). Things wore like iron -- 100K miles before they began showing even a little bit of wear (backrest side bolster only). Plus, the backrests were designed to be totally interchangeable with the passenger seat. I spent an hour one day switching them and could have gone another 100K miles keeping the original seats, I think.

Good as the C7 seats may be, I think these would beat the stuffing out of them for practicality and performance:



What do you think?

jr3

I forgot they even made those seats in cloth

Is the color gray or steel blue?... The color looks very close to the blue in the 2013 60th Anniv. Edition.

Personally i think the cloth material looks kinda cheap looking. It may not be, but just looks that way.

But then again that was GM in the 90's.

SBC_and_a_stick

Well Bill, I would hope that your first sentence would have a subject, the second sentence would use proper punctuation and verb tense, the third sentence would have a subject, and that your fourth sentence wouldn't claim I am an opinion myself.

If you did use proper grammar and logic to organize your thoughts, then I would have understood earlier on that you take everyone's statements as fact unless they add "in my opinion" at the end. I normally expect people to walk the line between fact and opinion without having their hand held.

That being said I do find the two tone choices GM made as a little too flashy and boy-racer like. It is not an elegant choice, in my opinion.

SBC_and_a_stick

I don't like cloth at all. Leather is much easier to clean, especially after getting all that dirt in the car from spinning out at the race track. I don't have too much slip in my leather seats so I prefer leather from a practical point of view.

Not to mention I like them better form a design/aspect point of view as well.

The odd ball out is suede or alcantra. That stuff still gets dirty like cloth. It does look better, but not by much. I had a full beije suede interior before...never again. It was black in a year. Every time I had a shop work on the car it came back with oil stains on it.

jr3

I think the popularity of alcantara came from some of the exotics using it (and race cars). But i still like the leather interiors a lot more.

SBC_and_a_stick

True. It works on a supercar that's driven 10,000 miles in it's lifetime. Not so much a daily driven, rain or shine car.

jr3

If someone picks the 1LT or 2LT, and you still like the seat colored leather wrap trim on the dash im sure the vendors on the forum can add those mods to your C7 with no problem. Some of the upgraded C6 leather mods look pretty good.

Sin City

I don't like it. Alcantara is a plastic material. Give me leather any day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcantara_(material)

Alcantara is composed of about 68% polyester and 32% polyurethane giving increased durability and stain resistance. The appearance and tactile feel of the material is similar to that of suede, and it may be incorrectly identified as such.