The editors at Sport Compact Car, who previously owned the vehicle, decided to paint it flat-black as an homage to a previously built SCC Subaru STI that was rattle-canned flat-black in 2004.

This may seem like a hip thing—in particular a hip-hop thing—but the first “murdered out” paint job on a car (translation: sporting an aftermarket color scheme of flat black) was done not ...

The Toronto resident owned a factory matte-finished 2011 M3 Frozen Black Edition ... Fine's M3 is an earlier example of a car with factory matte paint and auto makers say durability has improved ...

Magno Night Black paint is offered on the G-Class ... There's one final word of warning to customers considering buying a car with a matte paint finish. Both Hyundai and BMW explicitly state ...

It stood in bright contrast to the modern cars around it, whose paint jobs—pearlescent white, iridescent silver, high-gloss black ... car as it does the color of the paint. Older paints sat flat ...