[svxistentialist]

I've just checked my cars here in the light of this information.

Sure enough, the '92 UK car has the so called 'dark wood grain', and it is in silk finish. I think of it as purple melange rather than any even distant resemblance to wood.

I also have '93 and '95 UK cars. Both were built in '93 though. Both of these sport the nicer light wood grain, and both are silk finish.

Possibly the glossy wood grain came on stream in late '95.

Joe