Old school cool - uprigth and square - I can totally dig it. But c'mon, when was the last time you heard someone complain about the "noisy" leather seats in a Rolls Royce? Answer = never. Those fuzzy seats and door panels make the interior look low rent.
Ah, but one identifier of true wealth is not giving a damn what anyone thinks. If you want wool, I say rock the wool. I dig this thing.
Another is getting what you want. I don't want wool. Can you get it with leather?
It's not even just the material itself but how it is presented here. Look at the door panels - no stitching or folds or anything to add any visual interest - just one large unbroken swath of fabric.
I don't disagree with you, but it's evident that this thing was styled with a specific, old-school buyer in mind. I admire the balls to build something so single-minded, even if it's monumentally ill-suited to anywhere outside the Japanese "Zaibatsu" scene.
Our G90 is designed with a similar, albeit much less intense, focus. Many of the elements of that car (lack of panoramic roof option, focus on rear seat comfort, entertainment system without headphone connectivity) are the way they are because of the home market where they sell over ten thousand a year. I suspect future iterations will become more western in their execution, but these types of local-market idiosyncrasies are always interesting to me.
