The 50 Most Outrageous Custom Car Interiors

That old saying is true: money can’t buy happiness. We’ve also learned that it can’t buy taste. However, what it can buy is a whole lot of impressive cars with even more impressive modifications. Performance is all well and good, but what’s going on in that cabin is just as important. After all, you’re going to be spending a lot of time there. You wouldn’t want to slip and put your eye out on a ruby-encrusted gearshift. From the sublime to the shameful, these are the 50 Most Outrageous Custom Car Interiors.

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Custom Shop: Vilner
Most Outrageous Feature: Kawasaki green details

It's Vilner, so you expect quality leatherwork, even if you don't necessarily love the particular aesthetic. Keep in mind, the owner asked the firm to do this to his car. Actually, the interior is nicely appointed in Alcantara and Nappa as far as the eye can see. The exterior is a big vinyl wrap of two-toned NO, though. Take our word for it.

Custom Shop: Carlex Design
Most Outrageous Feature: Ostrich and kangaroo leather interior, luxurious wool rugs over 1-inch thick

Sure, ostrich and kangaroo leather are exotic. But kangaroo leather is also mad protective, at least compared to cow leather. That's why they make high-end motorcycle race suits out of it. If you've got this much cash to spend, why would you want a lesser leather covering your precious ass?

Custom Shop: Vilner
Most Outrageous Feature: It's soundproof

This is the ultimate rolling listening room. It doesn't matter what you like to listen to, there's no way it won't sound good in this cabin, and you won't have any precious sound leaking out to the undeserving schlubs outside. The interior is lavishly appointed with Nappa leather, alcantara, and beautiful polished wood accents. Why do you need a house, again?

Custom Shop: Louis Vuitton
Most Outrageous Feature: Louis Vuitton leather everywhere

If you want your G to be a rolling handbag, you'll buy one of these. This is the ultimate in brand love.

Custom Shop: Audi Factory
Most Outrageous Feature: Sharkskin leather interior

This interior might actually be a kinder way to handle all those sharks after taking their fins for shark fin soup. Nice move, Chinese-market Audi. Nice move.

Custom Shop: Vilner
Most Outrageous Feature: That diamond-stitched embroidery goes everywhere -- even the trunk

You know a car is over-the-top with luxury when your suitcases can ride in style in the trunk. We pity the fool who drags a wheeled bag through mud before tossing it carelessly in the back, though.

Custom Shop: Infiniti Factory
Most Outrageous Feature: Individual driver and passenger pods

When you want to reduce the possibility that you'll accidentally brush hands with your passenger, this is the car. Although with those two-toned Alcantara seats and trim, we're sure your hands will find plenty of other things to do.

Custom Shop: Carlsson and Etienne Aigner, working as partners
Most Outrageous Feature: Only two rear seats

The Rascasse is based on a Mercedes-Benz GL 500, which normally has seven rear seats. Carlsson decided this wasn't enough room, so their version only has two. The entire interior is trimmed in beautifully hand-stitched Nappa leather with Alcantara accents, including the headliner. A full multi-media entertainment system is hooked up in the back. If you get thirsty, Carlsson has thoughtfully provided some hand-blown glasses from which to sip.

Custom Shop: Brabus
Most Outrageous Feature: On-board espresso machine

If you've ever wanted a van with a full home theater setup for two, including a nice Dolby surround sound system, then Brabus has a treat for you. It also comes with an on-board espresso machine. That way, you can stay awake through all the bonus features on your favorite Blu-ray.

Custom Shop: Citroën and Polyphony
Most Outrageous Feature: It's a real-life car based on a video game car

We like that more people are working copper into their designs. This interior is no exception, but the fact that it even exists is amazing enough.

Custom Shop: Mansory
Most Outrageous Feature: Soft, supple, yet extremely hardy and flawless leather interior

A normal McLaren MP4-12C apparently wasn't insane enough. Mansory had to take it that little bit further. That, in itself, is madness. We suppose it's no Koenigseggseggseggsegg Agera R, but still.

Custom Shop: Gemballa
Most Outrageous Feature: Quilted leather-wrapped dashboard

The Mistrale has quilted, cushiony hand-stitched leather and Alcantara everywhere you look in the cabin -- even in the footwells. Some people take their shoes off when they enter a home. We think you may want to do the same when you climb into this car.

Custom Shop: Carlex Design
Most Outrageous Feature: Gorgeous hardwood floor

Carlex Designs wants to give you some serious wood -- that is, if you drive a big rig like this Scania. It could be a useful design feature if you get bored on a long haul. Bring tap shoes and you can wake yourself up.

Custom Shop: Brabus
Most Outrageous Feature: White leather and black Alcantara interior, carbon fiber dash elements

We didn't think it was possible to use carbon fiber accents in a tasteful way. It's a great material for sheer aerodynamic performance and strength on racecars, but usually looks stupid and poserish as an accent. Plus, the combination of white leather and black Alcantara makes us swoon. You heard us. Thanks for renewing our faith in carbon fiber, Brabus.

Custom Shop: Mansory
Most Outrageous Feature: The eye-gouging interior

If your sainted grandmother had a shit-ton of money and wanted some really cushy padded toilet seats, they would probably look like this. Mansory, what happened?

Custom Shop: Pagani Factory
Most Outrageous Feature: Specially stitched carbon fiber-spined seats

If a Pagani Zonda were a rare rookie Babe Ruth baseball card, the Cinque would be a signed rookie Babe Ruth card preserved in one of the bottles of alcohol he'd get drunk off of before games. Pagani only built five of these for extremely lucky individuals.

Custom Shop: Mansory
Most Outrageous Feature: Natural wood accents

It's orange. It's dimpled. It's probably softer than any baby you've ever touched. If you buy this car, you get to roll around sitting on seats that are softer than a thousand dimpled babies. You monster.

Custom Shop: Gemballa
Most Outrageous Feature: The Chicago Bulls theme

We could wax rhapsodic about the glories of this interior, but that would take away valuable time that you need to confess your love to it. Carbon fiber, suede, leather -- they've never sung together so harmoniously.

Custom Shop: Lumma Design
Most Outrageous Feature: Three shades of brown. THREE! Take that, beige Porsche lovers!

The Cayenne is normally a symphony of beige, but as anyone knows, it's interesting contrasts that make neutral colors pop. Lumma has done just that. It isn't flashy, but that's not what the Cayenne is about, anyway. Think of it like mahogany eyeliner.

Custom Shop: Lumma Design
Most Outrageous Feature: That orange and black sports car interior

You drive a hybrid, because it's going to save you money at the fuel pump, right? So, why not spend that extra dough on this Lumma Designs package? You can bet it's going to match at least one pair of kicks in your collection

Custom Shop: Mansory
Most Outrageous Feature: Teak wood floor. On a golf cart.

Five types of leather (waterproof) and a teak wood floor outfit this extravagant and over-the-top of golf cart. It's also available in other configurations, some of which are street-legal. Why hasn't this shown up in the SkyMall catalog yet?

Custom Shop: Vilner
Most Outrageous Feature: Red and black Alcantara seats

Who gives the Vilner treatment to a little Saturn Sky? Apparently some U.S. expat who brought one of the only cool-looking cars Saturn ever put out here with him when he moved to the EU. The results are stunning.

Custom Shop: Mansory
Most Outrageous Feature: Wood, carbon, leather -- the details are up to you

That leather-wrapped steering wheel oozes class. This interior manages to be refined and gorgeous, but not boring, despite the fact that it's in an SUV that will probably never, ever go off-roading. Mansory is helping Range Rover redefine the phrase "luxury SUV."

Custom Shop: Vilner
Most Outrageous Feature: Twice the front seats. You heard us.

Some customizers toss out the excessive seats in seven-seaters to make room for specialized equipment or features. In this case, Vilner installed a second pair of the front seats as rear seats for this GL. Now, no one can complain that they don't have enough room. Add that to Vilner's usual superb attention to detail and meticulous leather-crafting and this Benzo truly is the lap of luxury.

Custom Shop: Hamann
Most Outrageous Feature: Leather and clear-coated carbon fiber-trimmed 3-spoke steering wheel

If you like the Bentley Continental GT but think it just doesn't go far enough, Hamann has created the Imperator. You know, because everyone who has ever sat in a Continental GT has said to themselves, "This leather is too hard and scratchy! TAKE IT AWAY!"

Custom Shop: FAB Design
Most Outrageous Feature: Crocodile leather trim

Little crocodile touches around the cabin of this convertible are really set off by the sea of "normal" leather that's everywhere else. If you ever wanted to rock out with your croc out, this is the car to do it in.

Custom Shop: Gemballa
Most Outrageous Feature: Immaculate craftsmanship on the leather and Alcantara interior

Gemballa only made 30 of these Porsche Cayenne-based Tornados to celebrate the company's 30th anniversary. That kind of hand-stitching takes tens of hours to complete.

Custom Shop: Mansory
Most Outrageous Feature: Pink and purple plush quilted interior

Only three of these were ever made. The pink and purple don't stop with the interior, either. The exterior is pink and bubbly, as well, like a glass of sparkling rosé, which we're sure you'd drink, if you owned this car. We're surprised Nicki Minaj doesn't have one.

Custom Shop: Mansory
Most Outrageous Feature: The eye-searing bicolor interior

If this car weren't ordered from Mansory by some high-level executive at IKEA, we're extremely concerned. LEGO might also be acceptable, though we'd expect a few more primary colors thrown into the mix.

Custom Shop: Mansory
Most Outrageous Feature: Ergonomic steering wheel with rocker switches

Mansory, as a design firm, is only ever content with going big -- it never, ever goes home, which can often be a terrible thing. In this case, we don't mind the look of the lavish leather and carbon fiber-appointed cabin. But Mansory wasn't completely satisfied, so it came out with the Linea D'Oro after the Linea Vincero. That's a customizer: always improving, even if we don't agree with their design choices.

Custom Shop: TopCar
Most Outrageous Feature: Crocodile, Nappa, and Alcantara interior

The crocodile leather goes everywhere in the interior of this car. So much so that the Nappa and Alcantara bits are almost an afterthought. Cowhide? We don't need no stinkin' cowhide! Accents are gorgeous Karelian birch wood trim, and no chrome whatsoever besmirches the interior aesthetic. No, TopCar went for gold-covered trim, instead. Juvenile would be proud.

Custom Shop: Mansory
Most Outrageous Feature: Those seats

It's hard to improve on an Audi interior. Yet, Mansory's illuminated door entry strips, striking two-toned scheme, and aluminum pedals and footrests have done just that.

Custom Shop: Brabus
Most Outrageous Feature: The interior's visual brutality

While leather, Alcantara, and carbon fiber can certainly give you the impression of luxury, their use in this interior shows that's clearly not what Brabus had in mind. When they slammed their specially tuned Brabus V12 biturbo engine in the bay, it's obvious what Brabus was thinking. Sheer, brutal speed, and this interior only furthers the intention that this car means business.

Custom Shop: Prindiville
Most Outrageous Feature: Hand-milled aluminum accents

Most people don't think about all the little plastic bits that make up their car's interiors, even on exotics like Lamborghinis. Prindiville, however, was not impressed. So, the U.K.-based customizers yanked out little things like plastic air vents and replaced them with hand-milled aluminum pieces that add a bit of shine and sparkle to the interior -- which is covered in ostrich hide. Exotic car, meet exotic interior.

Custom Shop: TopCar
Most Outrageous Feature: Gold and crocodile interior

Crocodile leather and gold, as far as the eye can see. You know who would drive this Panamera? Captain Hook.

Custom Shop: 9ff
Most Outrageous Feature: That meticulous white stitching

This is what would happen if The Grid from Tron were ever formed into a car interior. Considering how 9ff has been evolving the GT9, we wouldn't be surprised if it feels almost as fast as a light cycle, too.

Custom Shop: ENCO
Most Outrageous Feature: Red carbon fiber everywhere

Those gorgeous red carbon fiber and Alcantara bucket seats came from a 911 GT3. If you thought the Cayenne was a wussmobile for trophy wives, this 700 beast might change your mind. Might.

Custom Shop: Spkyer Factory
Most Outrageous Feature: Exposed mechanical bits

We know it's a Spyker trademark, but we still love the audacity of essentially going, "Here. This is what's powering your car. Watch it work." The rest of the interior is nothing short of amazing, too.

Custom Shop: FiveAxis
Most Outrageous Feature: It's a mobile DJ booth

Scion prides itself on encouraging customization. To that notion, the younger divisions of Toyota doesn't just display crazy modded cars, like this ROLLING DJ BOOTH, at SEMA, but also to shows of all sizes across the country.

Custom Shop: 686
Most Outrageous Feature: It's entirely dedicated to snowboarding.

Ever wish you had a car that could dry your gear when you get wet? We're sure it isn't just snowboarders who've wanted this feature. This xB can do that. The Skullcandy sound system looks and sounds great, too.

Custom Shop: G-Power
Most Outrageous Feature: Completely reshaped seats

We could go on for ages about the beauty and intricacy of all that diamond-stitched leather and Alcantara that G-Power artisans did by hand. It's what's on the inside of these seats that counts, though. Apparently, the M5 seat shape was not deemed appropriate for their project, so they took them apart and reshaped them before lovingly covering them.

Custom Shop: Galpin Auto Sports
Most Outrageous Feature: Thumbprint control for Lambo-style scissor doors

Commissioned as a recruitment tool for the U.S. Air Force, the Challenger Vapor features a raft of high-tech wizardry -- night and thermal vision, remote control ability, biometric cabin entry, and a front seating area for driver and passenger that looks more like a plane cockpit than a car.

Custom Shop: Galpin Auto Sports
Most Outrageous Feature: The interior is a plane cockpit

As a recruiting tool, this must be second to none. Well, except maybe to the USAF Dodge Challenger that you just saw. We're not sure which of these would win in a dogfight, but we're pretty sure either one could make you feel like you were flying, if you were ever fortunate to get behind the wheel.

Custom Shop: Dartz
Most Outrageous Feature: Whale penis leather is optional

So, you live in China, you have suddenly found yourself with $1,000,000 burning a hole in your pocket, and you're not sure how to spend it. As an individual of questionable taste, it behooves you to jump right on this Black Snake and ride, ride, ride. Why? You don't have to stop at whale penis leather. White shark skin or crocodile are also options. Stay tacky, my friends.

Custom Shop: Adisan
Most Outrageous Feature: Optional stingray or sea snake leather

Let's say that stingray and sea snake leather just aren't enough for you. Adisan will also use rare pearl, nacre, amber, white gold, palladium, coral, and emeralds, when building your 35,000 EUR dream machine. How many stingrays does it take to get enough leather for a car interior? Ask Mr. Owl.

Custom Shop: Vilner
Most Outrageous Feature: Embroidered leather dragon scales

For the Year of the Dragon, Vilner really went to town on this GT-R. An embroidered red dragon graces the headliner and the top portion of the trunk liner as well. Loads of Alcantara grace the cabin. The car was originally red but Vilner dipped it in a new matte white foiled paint job. Thanks to obnoxious shirts from Ed Hardy, dragons can easily be tacky, but this flame-spitter is no joke. We can't get over those embroidered scales.

Custom Shop: Gemballa
Most Outrageous Feature: 950-watt stereo

This interior is actually understated, compared to the performance mods Gemballa applied to the rest of the car. The application of leather and suede that wraps around you, as you climb into the cabin, is top-notch.

Custom Shop: Koenigsegg Factory
Most Outrageous Feature: Carbon, carbon everywhere

Yo, we heard you like carbon fiber so we thought you might want some carbon fiber with your carbon fiber in the interior of one of the most jaw-dropping hypercars released in recent memory. Yeah? Good.

Custom Shop: Carlex Design
Most Outrageous Feature: Steampunked-out interior

Everyone knows chrome is played out. Copper is where it's at. That's why Carlex Designs has outfitted this very special Countryman with a copper roof. But you won't care, because you'll be too busy trying to time-travel in its brass, wood, and sprocket-appointed interior. Twist some knobs! PULL SOME LEVERS! Maybe we'll finally get to meet H.G. Wells.

Custom Shop: None; Anliker personally hired people to do this
Most Outrageous Feature: All of it

It's one of the most expensive cars ever, with more than $5.5 million dollars spent just on modifications -- that's well above and beyond the base car's asking price of $470,000. You're looking at actual gold and rubies in that interior. Anliker took the exterior even further, mixing 5kg of gold dust into the 25-coat paint job. After all that, surely you wouldn't actually drive this car anywhere, would you?