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Matt is the new Black

Postby Aussie Stig » Wed Aug 08, 2012 12:29 pm

Thought this might be of interest. Sort of looks like MX-5 Titanium, only meaner.
So new nobody has worked out whether to spell it 'matte' or 'matt'.


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Re: Matt is the new Black

Postby JBT » Wed Aug 08, 2012 3:43 pm

How many ugly sticks has that car been hit with :?:
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Re: Matt is the new Black

Postby Lokiel » Wed Aug 08, 2012 3:49 pm

These Velosters actually look quite good in the flesh, I saw one before I knew about them and was quite impressed (apparently they're gutless though so you'd want the turbo version).
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Re: Matt is the new Black

Postby hks_kansei » Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:45 pm

Lokiel wrote:These Velosters actually look quite good in the flesh


They actually look quite nice.


But then again, in real life I'm not looking at a distorted wide angle view of one while lying on the road (why did the photographer choose that view!?)
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Re: Matt is the new Black

Postby Locutus » Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:52 pm

i thought these looked interesting online, but rather ugly in the flesh. different strokes...

Aussie Stig wrote:So new nobody has worked out whether to spell it 'matte' or 'matt'.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/matt

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Re: Matt is the new Black

Postby Mr nanotech » Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:33 pm

All I think of is this

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Re: Matt is the new Black

Postby zero00 » Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:50 pm

The Veloster, well it looks good from behind but the front kind of has a 'cheap' look about it! I was having a coffee at the BP Southbound a few weeks ago and a couple pulled in so I was talking to them, they had had it since 2011 and I didn't know they had been around that long, bought it in Bundaberg

As for 'matte', a few weeks ago at Lakeside there was a matte black Porsche Cayenne [or however you spell it], checked the rego label and it was a 2004 model - didn't impress me! :(
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Re: Matt is the new Black

Postby rossint » Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:07 pm

"The Veloster matte-finish paint is currently only available in two colours - Young Gun and Petrol"
Who names these colours?
I saw a matt black Carrera GT in a Porsche showroom in Stuttgart, looked incredible.

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Re: Matt is the new Black

Postby NMX516 » Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:10 pm

JBT wrote:How many ugly sticks has that car been hit with :?:


It fell from the top of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down!
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Re: Matt is the new Black

Postby bootz » Thu Aug 09, 2012 1:58 pm

Nobody is particularly interested in the paint, so I guess it is a passing fad.
Maybe MX-5 owners just love to polish their babies.
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Re: Matt is the new Black

Postby Mr Sexy » Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:56 pm

It's the bogan guys who go to bunnings and buy 50 cans of the 2 dollar spray paints and paint there commowhores or vans may black who ruin it! Some cars can suit and others do. My old metal work teacher had a series 1 rx7 painted in Matt black, the thing looked evil! 8)

On the other hand that Hyundai looks like a fish!

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Re: Matt is the new Black

Postby Kev05 » Sun Aug 12, 2012 8:48 am

Perhaps the color is not suitable on cheaper car but it looks sh!t hot on a LP700-4. - It's yours for a cool $850k. :lol:

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Re: Matt is the new Black

Postby the_darkside » Mon Sep 03, 2012 9:49 am

Matt is English, Matte is American.
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Re: Matt is the new Black

Postby Carbon Demon » Wed Sep 12, 2012 11:24 pm

Matt vinyl wrapped Mazda:

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Re: Matt is the new Black

Postby Aussie Stig » Wed Sep 12, 2012 11:38 pm

That's rather impressive. because if you get sick of the matt the vinyl can be peeled off.
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