One of the big upside of re-inheriting our old 2010 Prius is that a few years ago, it was recalled for some paint issues, which meant that the whole car was repainted brand new. As a result, the pearl white, sparkly paint they painted it with is insanely beautiful. Inspecting it closely, it glitters a different angles, with hints of cyan and magenta. This puts me an insanely good mood.

Why matte black cars?

My critique; I think any sort of vinyl wrap, on the car is really really ugly. Why? May be a purity thing; I’m more of the old-school, prefer to sand it down, apply primer, and apply paint. Also a funny thing is I remember, my desire was to have paint on the car which was shiny, a car in which when you actually waxed it, and polished it, it would shine. As a kid, my dream was to have a shiny red car. Either a shiny red car, with white rims, for example the Integra type R and red with white rims, or a red 1991 Sentra SER, two-door coupe, with gold or bronze rims.

Black cars are a modern day preference?

As a kid, black was not a desirable thing. Black as a kid, always looked ugly to me on cars, especially the fact how easily dirty it would get, and how quickly the paint would corrode in the sun.

Also, in terms of clothing, kids were all black everything clothing were the weird goth emo kids at school. And the preference was towards White; white Russell hoodies, white case with sneakers, simple and plain white T-shirts. And jeans, preferably really dark indigo denim. Not black.