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For me it's not so much cheapening the interior as it's just aesthetically less pleasing. Looks like some marketing whigs figured the HVAC knobs need to be ginormous to suit fat American hands. The offset arrangement of the three knobs just look less elegant than the EDM/JDM versions. Plus the GT-R-esque dials was one of the highlights of the interior for me, and that's gone. Then you have that greyish audio deck, which doesn't at all blend with the rest of the center console. The dash is very retro-upright, then you have this audio deck that tries too hard to be cool. It just looks less cohesive.
Options like HID and whatever I could always add after the fact. But changing out the HVAC controls, that's likely a lot more work.
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