I have just applied the textures to the doors and rear seats. The rear seats still need work, but the rest is looking awsome. It's not the photorealism that stand out, it's the specular lighting on the textures themselves that brings true life to the textures.

Right now, I'm working on the hardest parts of texture development. The vynl textures [used for the walls of the interior] and the carpet textures. I'll update my sig to show the progress after I'm done applying the textures on the main parts.

The textures have a dynamic light effect when the diffuse and ambient colors in the Material Editor are set to 45,45,45 and the specular level set to 45. The settings seem to have had an positive and UNexpected effect on the photo textures. As light bounces around the interior, the textures behaive as if they have bump-mapping applied [even though they don't]. The effect is more pronounced around the doors and when the Mesh Smooth modifier [zero iterations] is applied.

wow that is quite an interior in your sig! good work

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It will have reflections, of course. However, the level of the alpha channel might be lower since the rims in most photos have a less chromey effect with a high specular effect.