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... you don't see a true monocolor interior, everyday. Much less, a blue one. Not even special ordering from the government motors corporation, do you get a true monocolor interior on your US$80 thousand Corvette... They dis you a lousy two-tone. 4 separate parts bins for every interior component on its AW11 platform, Toyota offered its MR2 in four true monocolor interiors: monocolor black, monocolor tan, monocolor red, and monocolor blue -- in cloth or leather, no less. Less than 200 ever made, my MR2 Supercharged boasts Maserati's white-on-blue factory racing livery. Photographs do not do it justice. Upon receipt of this vehicle in early 1993, heavily Armoraled, it took all morning and a half bottle of alcohol to clean up this interior. The production run on color-matching stick shift knobs for the AW11 ran out, March of 1988. Build date April, my AW11 does not have the matching blue stick shift knob. A high priority, this I intend to remedy. Answer to your question is: Yes. It's garage kept. Park this car in direct sunlight, you won't have a mono-color blue interior, for long. Coefficient of extinction is greatest, in only one other colour: blue-green. Radiation penetrates deeper, into blue-greens and blues, than any other colour in the visible light wavelength of planet Earth's electromagnetic spectrum. Henceforth, denoted in all capital letters on the service log at my local Toyota dealership: "... UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE IS THIS CAR TO BE PARKED IN DIRECT SUNLIGHT, WITHOUT ITS CAR COVER." Next up for this car, I'm evaluating chemicals for a top-down seats-out carpet cleaning. Thus far, spot remover I found in the laundry isle at Costco, "Resolve," was my leading candidate. Back to square one, I have it on good authority, do not (NOT) attempt to use "Resolve," as a carpet cleaner --