I'm helping my girlfriend buy a new (used) car and she's landed on a 228 as a first choice. She's clearly got good taste. :-) The thing is that she doesn't like black and insists on the beige carpet, dashboard, and headliner. As I've looked over the classifieds, I've found 90% of these cars have all-black interiors. Of the remaining 10%, about 5% of them have the beige interior she wants. And of the ones with an oyster and beige interior, almost all of them are strippers with no options.

Are these interiors really that rare? It seems like they're not even available from BMW anymore. Did they drop the light-colored option sometime? I'm hoping somebody who's been watching these cars the last few years can tell me how this interior option was offered from BMW.

Thanks in advance...