The brown color appears to many eyes as black.
Unless they are side by side in good light, it's very difficult to tell the difference.

As mentioned, palomino interiors got the brown dash, black interiors got the black, as did red(ish) interiors. And blue interiors got the blue, duh.

Jim

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