2003 Interior colors

[Red]

New interior colors for 2003 include Saddle, Ink Black and Whisper White. Perhaps all the color schemes for 2003 are new if the "Black" gets darker. I wonder if all these changes prompted the leather name change to Imola???

[5bird7]

The same Torch red is available as full or partial accent for the 2003. It seems to be the only carry over from the 02.

Just did a google search on Imola and didn't find much - a number of times it was refered to as "Imola red" - a color. The only place it seemed to refer to a "brand" was for some Ford models.

Also did a search on Eagle Ottawa company - who were supposed to be the manufacturers/supplier of the Nudo leather - there is no reference to Nudo or Imola on their site but they did say a little bit about how they recycle their "beef" product wastes.

[whvt01]

I seem to remember BMW having a leather
selection called Imola or sounding
similar to this. So it may be a grade of
leather.

[5bird7]

Ok, so I do a search on BMW and imola leather and come up with "Imola red" as a color for the leather used in BMWs and someone's definition that the color is related to the color of a German race car named after an Italian race track. Interspersed in there were a couple of different "brands" of leather using the Imola name for a particular red color. We do know that "Imola" is the brand name being attached to the leather being used on the 2003 but I don't think it's related to the BMW Imola red leather since they only used the name in conjunction with a color.