i cant understand this. also with the G35. Acura finally woke up and added the ebony interior for their 06 models on their white sedan.

i wonder why all these manufacturers have stopped this combo. its by far my favorite.


i would love to see a Winter Frost with black!

 

Maybe because there were not alot of ppl looking for this combo.

You still can get in done thru the aftermarket world if you want to spend the extra money.

 

Simple, supply and demand, customers are not demanding it, car manufactures are not supplying it...

 

You could order the combo thru the dealer to the factory. I've been told it can be done if you are willing to wait a month. I couldn't wait so opted for White on Gray. Not bad at all.

 

I don't think so. In '05 I wanted onyx/cafe latte leather and the dealer I was working with said it could not be ordered that way. If you can order thru the dealer to the factory and get it in ONE month, I would consider you lucky. I ordered SE onyx/frost leather with elite and waited three months! Maybe it's all dealer dependent?!

 

When i was buying my car the stealership was pushing the black on frost, so they are out there, but i ended up with the black on black, cant ever get tired of that .

 

I like my Max's Onyx on frost but I love my Pathfinders Super Black on Desert/Tan. We had to do a dealer trade from Cleveland to some dealer in Kentucky b/c no one had the color combo we wanted. I wish my Max had the same combo.

 

A black interior in a white car would not be a big seller.

Aesthetically speaking, the contrast between black and white is too wide. The colors are not considered to be complementary.

Most (but not all) folks buying a white car are either very practical type folks or folks who want to project a 'clean' or 'above board' image. More importantly, white reflects the heat of the sun and requires less interior cooling. White also does not show dirt as badly as most colors.

But black, as much as auto aficionados (especially young ones) love it, is not a practical interior color. Any spec of lint shows up against black. Black makes the interior of vehicles seem smaller. Black also makes the interior of vehicles darker. Worst of all, black absorbs all sunlight entering the car, and makes the interior of vehicles hotter.

When one considers the many variations of options available on the Maxima other than interior and exterior colors, it is quite obvious it would not be economically practical for Nissan to offer all interior colors with all exterior colors. So they restricted the choices to the combinations they felt would sell best.

 

Yep... and black attracts mosquitoes like crazy!! Maybe you guys up north haven't seen it, but is amazing how easy mosquitoes find their way inside the cabin, with all your windows up and the air vents closed. With the black interior, you will have a dozen inside the car every morning. Believe me... I've seen it.

 

Wait a minute; you can get a Titan with white exterior black interior, same with Frontier, Pathinder, Altima, Sentra, Xterra, even the Z. So to say that the color combination is not "Aesthetically" pleasing is your opinion. I visually like the contrast, but not enough get it. Obviously Nissan has this combination and people buy it or Nissan wouldn't offer it on any vehicle in their line-up.

Can someone explain why the Altima has several exterior colors that allow the selection of any interior color (and that’s economical)! Likewise on the Frontier Crew, does Nissan sell more Frontiers to make it economical?

 

The Altima and Sentra are Nissan's high volume cars for the masses. In a high volume car, it is feasable to offer more variations, as there will be more of those cars on each dealer's lot.

To compare the Maxima with any vehicle that may be used as a company work vehicle is meaningless, as white is the standard color for such units, and as such, will be available with more dark interior options than the Maxima.

The Maxima is intended to be the flagship vehicle for Nissan, and, as such, Nissan would like to have it in tasteful color combinations.

Sports cars such as the Z are expected to have dramatic color contrast. Black sells well as an interior color for true sports cars. Vehicles that are designed for offroad use such as trucks, the Xterra, the Explorer, etc, will almost always have black as an interior option, because it sells in such vehicles.

But a luxurious 'leathery' color such as caffe latte would be much more appropriate, and better received, in a near-luxury vehicle such as the Maxima.

All I am saying is that, due to the Maxima not being intended as a high-volume vehicle, Nissan offers limited interior colors with each exterior color. They did not offer a black interior with a white exterior, and I easily understand why. To compare the Maxima with other Nissan vehicles is comparing apples to oranges.

 

The third and fourth gen max's had the option of white on black leather. The fifth gen I'm not sure about. I like the black leather in my silver sl. I will admit you have to stay on top of it to keep it clean and looking good I don't mind it but I could see how it could be nerve-racking. The winter frost doesn't seem like it would look bad with black. I guess some of us just have odd taste to nissan. I just like black interiors myself. I had to get silver because it looks clean longer and it had the black interior.

 

I wanted a white maxima with black leather int.

I dont know what your talkin about, with them not looking good together, but I had a 97 max se, white with black leather and the combo looks great.

 

logik - The reality is Nissan understandably can't make all four interior colors available in both cloth and leather with each of the eight exterior colors.

They chose to have two interior colors with the exterior white.

The frost interior was automatic. Most folks buying white exterior Maximas have long prefered the frost interior (I certainly do). Both the exterior white and the interior frost look great together, and work extremely well to hold down heat in hot climes.

The burnt orange was automatically out. It is available only on Elite Package versions of Maximas with exterior colors spirited bronze, onyx and smoke.

So the second interior color had to be either cafe latte or black. Black was already available with every other exterior color except coral sand. Cafe latte was available with only a few exterior colors. The decision was made that cafe latte (a natural leather look) fit more smoothly (with less contrast) with the white exterior.

It matters not whether Maxima owners agree. Nissan made the choice. I feel it was the correct one, but many will feel otherwise. But how we feel won't change what has been done.