So over the last few months, Chris and I have had some pretty excited conversations about many things MotorFanatics….one of the things that we frequently talk about is if money was no object…what cars would we buy. This conversation always includes the Carrera GT for both of us. As well as an ever revolving stable of exotics, classics and everything in between. One of the side topics that has been heavily discussed is paint colors, we typically agree on what would look good, but frequently disagree on the colors we would paint our own personal cars. Red, Black, Silver, Orange, Green….you name it, we’ve talked about it. Lately we’ve been talking matte, and we both agree that if done correctly, it is an amazingly aggressive look. The problem is, would we really want to commit to that look? One option is vinyl, covering a car in matte vinyl would give you that same look, and would also preserve the original paint, when we get tired of the matte look, we would just peel the vinyl off and go back to the gloss original. Well, we haven’t pulled the trigger on this yet, but we have seen a few true matte paint jobs recently on an E93 M3 that had a complete matte paint job, and also an R8 that had matte side blades. We may differ on opinions of many things…but we both agreed that these cars both look pretty awesome. Have a look for yourself here, and let us know what you think.
To Matte, or not to Matte.
On May - 11 - 2009