Sport or SE Coupe

[NickDE]

Sports have anthracite headlining. If you're not into the dark & cosy feeling an SE might be the lighter choice you are looking for.

Yes, that's why I am glad both of my Sport Coupes had Pearl Grey seats! If I'd had black seats and an anthracite headlining I'd feel like I was in a coffin, and I'm not ready yet!

I have black headlining and black seats, and would like to upgrade to Piano Black trim. I'm getting used to the coffin effect.

 

[srhutch]

Sports have anthracite headlining. If you're not into the dark & cosy feeling an SE might be the lighter choice you are looking for.
If you don't like the SE seats you can easily replace them with E46 3 Series seats which are cheap to buy and more comfortable than the M-Sport seats. My Sport now has E46 M3 seats in it.

Anthracite headlining can be spec’d On an SE.

 

[Simon 3.2M]

You can spray the dash panels gloss black and I'm sure the headliner could be recoloured.

 

[NickDE]

Sports have anthracite headlining. If you're not into the dark & cosy feeling an SE might be the lighter choice you are looking for.
If you don't like the SE seats you can easily replace them with E46 3 Series seats which are cheap to buy and more comfortable than the M-Sport seats. My Sport now has E46 M3 seats in it.

Anthracite headlining can be spec’d On an SE.

Very true. All Sport goodies were available on an SE, so an SE can be higher spec than a Sport. In theory.
The light headlining was not available on Sport, so if you don't like a coffin get a SE, some E46 seats and Suplex springs with Bilsteins.