We have the same issue with the dark headliner...my wife felt claustrophobic when we test drove. I was told by the dealer that the factory will not accept any customization requests. Even if it ends up costing them >$3,000 for the package. So we went without it.

On the surface it seems silly since it's a simple substitution of color for color on the headliner. But I understand a factory not wanting to introduce additional complexity to the line once everything has been defined. It's the usual tension between marketing--which wants every possible combination for every customer whim--and manufacturing--which would like the Henry Ford approach of "any color as long as it's black" to keep things as simple as possible.

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2001 X5 4.4 - Retired
2008 X5 4.8 - Delivered 2/1/08
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