What is this part of car's interior called?

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Is there a name for this part of a car's interior?

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I want to describe this car for someone who has never seen it.

Around the car's interior, there is beautiful piano black .....streaked with slender white stripes.

I want a word to fill in the blank.
 

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Trim, maybe.
 

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Maybe lower, passenger-side dashboard in American English. It's very likely different in British English.
 

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Trim, maybe.

Is this okay?

Around the car's interior, there is beautiful piano black trim streaked with slender white stripes.
 

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More than just okay. It sounds perfectly natural.
 
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Wouldn't "streaked with stripes" be tautologous?
 

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Is this okay?

Around the car's interior, there is beautiful piano-black trim streaked with slender white stripes.
Sorry I missed this before. You need to hyphenate when you make an adjective from a sequence of nouns. Native speakers often miss this too.
 
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Maybe lower, passenger-side dashboard in American English. It's very likely different in British English.

We say dashboard in BrE. Dashboard trim works for me.
 
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