I know I’m going to be in the minority here, but this entire discussion reminds me of my grandmother, who used to keep the plastic cover on the living room couch years after it was delivered.
I live in Colorado. My car carpets get dirty quick. Rocks, dirt, debris from snow, and on and on. Hiking and snowboarding trips are murder on a car.
To me, dirt is dirt. Doesn’t matter if it‘s dirt on black or dirt on white. It still looks like dirt. The majority of the dirt here doesn’t “blend” in to any carpet, unless you have ”dirt brown” carpets.
My Tesla’s mats are black. The carpet is black. Still looks terrible when it‘s dirty.
So I clean my mats regularly, and I have the carpet of the car around the mats cleaned regularly, too, because the dirt never confines itself to the mats.
I guess I don’t see the point in buying giant, black rubber mats that will make my beautiful Santa Cruz interior ugly 100% of the time just so I can keep the cream carpet underneath—that no one will ever see—clean.
The Mojave mats are an interesting idea, but they come close enough to matching that the fact they are off by just a teeny bit would bug me. And again, dirt on dark grey vs dirt on cream? Still dirt.
But by all means, ignore me and carry on.
