> When I ordered my '01, the MB Taste Police would not allow a > tannish (now called Java) interior with any of the colors I wanted. > Metallic red, for example.
Let me get this straight. You ordered the car, built to your needs and desires. You wanted an interior that was available for that model, combined with an exterior that was available for that model, and the computer wouldn't allow the dealer to process the order that way? If I were the would-be customer, that would be a NO SALE until the dealer got on the phone with HQ and found a way to place the order the way I wanted it. I remember a story from the early 1990's. The police chief from a small place in California (La Jolla, perhaps?) went into a Saturn dealer (no police package on the order form there) and wanted a couple of black cars with white doors, hoods, and trunk lids. Salesman said "let me check on it, we've never done that before". The order was submitted that same day, and the chief had his economy cop cars a month or two later. Saturn used it as an example of why they were a different sort of car company, but why can't it be that way at every car maker?
