By Robert Emslie
For decades – seriously, decades – automakers worked tirelessly to make their cars’ paint shiny and lustrous. In the fifties and sixties, car paint even sometimes included metal-flake to give it added sparkle. Of course today what everybody wants is matte finish, and, if this European Audi is any indication, the next step will be. . . velvet. Mmmm, velvet.
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Vavon will like this one.[youtube SHrKNsNkW7U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHrKNsNkW7U youtube]
I knew my favourite singer liked my favourite car!!!
[youtube WOnchYbR_gA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOnchYbR_gA youtube] Why would you want to wrap any car in velvet… Yuk!
Alannah Myles' new car?
As a man who grew up sneaking peeks at his dad's Playboys in the seventies, I've got to say that there's something wrong when women like their cars furry and their…
Haha +++++!!!
Really.
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I am not the least bit interested in that cat, even though I know I'll never have to deal with a hairball.
Just don't let yourself get into that position.
Black velvet Elvis conversion van! Want now! Sad clowns on opposite side and dogs playing poker on the wheel cover. Now!
I think this was flat black gone wrong
Increased drag coefficient…on air.
I'll see your velvet car….
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…and raise you a Velveeta car.
That velvet coating goes back at least to 1968 when a local did that to a new Nova.Sucked then,sucks now.
No, I can't meet you tomorrow, my car is in the dry-cleaners.
Will the velvet wraps usher in a new era of flocked wallpaper?
No Elvis, no sale.
I mean, it's a nice car and all, but it sure seems to have Alannah Myles on it….