Regarding grey interiors.

This is not the greatest comp (dammit: I can't find the better one); try to ignore the bicolor of the BMW.

It shows how busy the 997 interior is compared to BMW. Look at the door panels especially.

Everything is broken up and somewhat jumbled in 997. BMW is always coherent, unified and flowing.

My point; I have always ordered BMWs with grey interiors because they are soooooo nice looking; grey shows them off.

IM_H_O, the 997 interior looks best (to some people) in black to downplay the extra stuff going on. Natural grey is kinda dark, right? If so that's good.

FWIW