MKW - dumbed down is correct, and especially for money. If you wanted to get the best quality in the interior of today's Porsches you'd have to check off every interior leather/wood/carbon fiber upgrade to bring it up to the older Porsches. However, an upside to this is allows each driver to have a wider range of flexibility in equipping their interior (e.g. one Porsche has leather PCM trim, the other doesn't but has leather for visors, etc.). As I told Porsche-Jeck many weeks ago, you can think of Porsches like snowflakes, two are never really the same (unless you get a demo car or just order a bare-bones stock model from Germany).

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I too think wood belongs in luxury cars but at least Porsche gives you the option of appointing your vehicle luxuriously. IMO the interior on a sports car should be more well, sporty -- carbon fiber and aluminum come to mind. But we do have the option of making our cars like a luxe cruiser -- super soft supple leather, wood EVERYWHERE, and well, you know.