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Eclipse GT Interior: Not the Full Terra Cotta

2006 Mitsubishi Eclipse GT backseat - Erin Riches

Here's the one thing about our Sunset Pearlescent Eclipse GT's interior that I simply can't get past: The leather/faux suede Terra Cotta treatment doesn't extend to the backseat. It's not that I care if the occasional rear-seat passenger in this car has to sit on dark gray vinyl. It's the everyday eyesore that I have to see whenever I turn my head. Couldn't Mitsu have at least used off-white vinyl so the front and rear seats would at least sort of match?

The obvious solution is to keep the 50/50 rear seats folded down, but the problem is that there's considerably more road noise without the "insulation" of the upright rear seat backs...

And as Brent has noted, road noise is already an issue in the Eclipse.

Erin Riches, Senior Content Editor

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