Beoshingus

I still haven't seen any good pics of the parchment interior for '06. Bring 'em on.

Irfo

If nothing shows up I'll post some of mine next week after I pick it up. I've already visited it, so I can tell you they've darkened the plood considerably.

They also seem to have wanted to get away from the burlwood look, with those random swirly accents, and more toward a grained look. Unfortunately, they oriented the "grain" up-and-down, so the plood looks tiger-striped. I doubt people will like it any better than the old plood.

Beoshingus

Huh. Well, the old stuff didn't even look like wood at all (at least not from any tree that grows on this planet.) That was the primary reason I stayed away from PWP. Look forward to seeing what the new stuff looks like. It's GOT to be better, right?

JeffS

Irfo, what color combo are you getting?

Jason

The new plood has a maple-wood look to it. Not a burl maple but a striped maple. It's very handsome.

Irfo

PWP/Parchment.

Rocket_man

I took some pics of the new plood but they are not very good. They were taken at night.... in the rain... through the car window. If you want I'll try to post them but like I said, they are not that great. The new plood I'd say is a slight improvement over the old plood... but it is still plood.

Rocket_man

ok... here they are... not the greatest but it gives you an idea..





Here is a pic of the Atomic Blue...



and CG...

Irfo

I think Acura was trying for a "Classic Rosewood" look like this; it's pretty close:



It's not bad; I don't mean to imply it's not an improvement over the petrified pudding plood of the past. (By the way, how long has Parchment w/plood been available anyway? Has it always been like the '05's?)

And since I stole their pic, does anyone have any experience with genuine wood dask kits like from these guys?

JeffS

Very classy combo.

jlukja

gforce

I test drove a 2006 6-spd yesterday at my dealer (mine comes in a few weeks but my dealer was nice enough to call when he got one in), and they had 2 White/Parchments being prepped as loaner cars. Can you believe it? Their first batch of 2006's and they take two of them for loaners?

Anyway, the Parchment with the new fake wood trim looks great. Very classy and I think the closest any manufacturer has come to the real thing. Sorry I didn't have a camera on me or I would have taken pics for you.

jlukja

I guess I sholdn't be surprised that the first 2006 become loaners. I think their hope is that, as the loaners get used, the owners see what a great car it is and decide to trade their older Acura.

Zoopa

At last!!! Someone posts a picture of an '06 that's not silver, grey, or black!!!

swirlie

Dude, I've posted a series of shots of my RBP! Excited has posted a bunch and he doesn't even have his yet!

phile

That pic of the 06's plood actually look like it's mimicking the RL's curly maple. Anyway, it nevertheless is an improvement over the previous plood.

Rocket_man

Here are some better pics of the 06 Plood. It does look much better then the older style, much more convincing... but you can still tell it is plastic. I think after looking at it for awhile it is one of the better ploods I've seen.







And a bonus pic of the Deep Green Pearl. It still had the coating on it from the transport truck, but the lower half of the car was clean. Not a bad green color, but not my taste.

jlukja

that plood sure looks like my 04 plood.

Jason

Your plood is more orange where this is more of a brown honey.

kyotousa

^^^yah i think 05 is lighter

i like that volume control knob....metal = cool

Beoshingus

Thanks Rocket_man - great pics!

waTSX

Those pics are much nicer. Good job. I think the parchment and the plood looks great. Makes me wish I 'd gotten it instead of the rather ho-hum quartz.

I love the way the black parts of the dash offset the parchment bits. To me the plood looks really sharp, at least in these pictures. Maybe it's just because I'm too used to my quartz interior.

jlukja

FYI,

Still Water put black floormats in his TSX with partchment interior and it looks really good.

Here is a link to that thread: https://acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23842
Check out his pics in post no. 15.

prballard

Is it just me or does the Parchment look darker on the 06 than previous models? More like the TL I think.

jlukja

For side-by-side comparison purposes.

2006


2004-05



Note that the pics were taken under different ambient lighting conditions and, most likely, with different exposures. Hard to get a good compro without actually being there in person and looking at them side-by-side.

Beoshingus

The new stuff definitely looks better, I think.

bgillette

very little difference in my eyes....

its like people are LOOKING for a reason to trade their TSX for a new one...

just wait til AWD and more power! 07 or 08

HondaGuy347

Here's another side-by-side



'06 looks ever-so-slightly better, but to me, the slight improvement in wood doesn't balance out the color change of the '05-on steering wheel buttons. I love my silver buttons, had the plasticky-looking black. Those new silver stereo knobs are hot though. The integrated XM ('05+), Bluetooth, and power passenger seat (05)/memory seat make me drool, but the new wheels and front end (and black steering wheel buttons) relieve my jealousy. Think I'll stay where I'm at with the '04. That extra plood trim is hot, though, I might like it to go with my shiftknob.


BTW, I've been in my Mom's '04 Accord, and test driving '06 Accord coupes with my Dad a lot lately, and I love the TSX interior so much more than that weird, swoopy, droopy-triangle superhero shield looking point of the Accord interior...bleck!

97AcuraCL

belive it or not i love the accord interior; but u knwo what i hate about it most?

the fact that there was no cover over the cup holders. Its stupid/weird i knwo beacuse I always have the cover on my cup holders open. but for somet reason it kinda cheapened the iterior to me.

and though i could live with them, the guages aren't as nice as the tsx's obviously

phile

I absolutely agree. The Accord's center console with the "wood" interior would look so much better with cupholder cover instead of the exposed cupholders it currently has. When you look at the Euro Accord, it has the same interior and with cupholder cover.

HondaGuy347

I just can't deal with it. When I look at that center stack, it looks to me like something Superman would wear on his chest. And yeah, I forgot about the no-cover-on-the-cupholders bit. Also, I find the wood trim to be uglier than the TSX's, it's got kinda a weird greenish tinge to it, like mossy or something. But I am ticked that my Mom's $23.5k Accord came with 1. Xm and 2. wood on all four door panels (on the window switch plate), when those features were not available/optional on my $30k '04 TSX.

Oh well, the HIDs, homelink, 40 MORE HP, 17" wheels, smaller dimensions, etc etc etc make up for it

psteng19

2006 definitely more brown and less orangey which is better IMO.

And you know what's worse than the Accord pentagon radio controls?
The beaver buck teeth grill/emblem

Rocket_man

I think the plood on the 06 accord is the same new pattern on the TSX.

Irfo

More Plood Porn!! '06 TSX plood caught sprawling in the sun!!

Hard core plood closeups!!

Click to enlarge, if you know what I mean!!


Let's hope this fancy ImageShack hosting works, or I'm gonna look even stupider... :shakehead

jlukja

^^ Let me guess, you write porn spam for a living.

I can see slight color difference in the above pics. Nice. I agree, it looks a bit better than my 04 orange tinted plood. But, the pattern on my 04 looks better IMHO.

Irfo

I think I agree. I was glad to see the darker color when I first got in mine, but a little disappointed they went to a grain effect instead of trying to get the burl effect right. But hey, mainly I'm just lovin' this car...

Beoshingus

You're a sick puppy, but you take some mean photos. Thx!

fuckleberry

why Honda makes them so damn shiney !? :shakehead

phile

Cause then they'll look flat, and you'll be able to tell they're definitely fake.