https://www.dezeen.com/2019/08/27/bmw-vbx6-vantablack-car-design/

I must see this car in person. The paint is formulated with carbon nanotubes and  is mind-bendingly dark. The car will appear -- in the flesh -- like a shadow with headlights floating on top.

Hector, please get one, please please please.

I love paint effects like this.

They should paint the pig snout with that. 

Quote from: Laconian on August 30, 2019, 03:46:09 PM
https://www.dezeen.com/2019/08/27/bmw-vbx6-vantablack-car-design/

I must see this car in person. The paint is formulated with carbon nanotubes and  is mind-bendingly dark. The car will appear -- in the flesh -- like a shadow with headlights floating on top.

Hector, please get one, please please please.

I've seen samples of this stuff. Horribly expensive, and usually used only to coat the interior of high end optics. Its literally a moment where you question the nature of reality- like someone cut a hole into the fabric of the universe.

A whole car would be insane. I guarantee that will cause accidents.

I want a C8 in this colour, and then I'd sign out night vision goggles from work.

Quote from: Rockraven on August 30, 2019, 04:17:56 PM
I want a C8 in this colour, and then I'd sign out night vision goggles from work.

That's the mistake people make though. They think it should be hard to see. It isn't. It is as clear at night as it is in day, and in day it leaps out of the scenery like it was neon. But its not neon, its not even black. Its nothing, and it sticks out like a sore thumb.

Whatever happened to that experimental cloak paint that was all the rage in the news 5 years ago?

Quote from: Soup DeVille on August 30, 2019, 04:21:31 PM
That's the mistake people make though. They think it should be hard to see. It isn't. It is as clear at night as it is in day, and in day it leaps out of the scenery like it was neon. But its not neon, its not even black. Its nothing, and it sticks out like a sore thumb.

Weird neon black. I like it. I don't want a car in that color, though.

Quote from: Rockraven on August 30, 2019, 04:24:11 PM
Whatever happened to that experimental cloak paint that was all the rage in the news 5 years ago?

This might be the same stuff- The guy who invented it is a bit of a weirdo.

looks like this is something being sold by one of the dudes he pissed off, and that BMW had to add some reflectivity to it because people couldn't handle the purest vantablack material.

Hotblack Desiato is going to be thrilled.

Bleh, it will just look dirty easier

Quote from: r0tor on August 30, 2019, 04:42:37 PM
Bleh, it will just look dirty easier

That's true, dirt will increase the car's albedo.

Quote from: Soup DeVille on August 30, 2019, 04:04:27 PM
I've seen samples of this stuff. Horribly expensive, and usually used only to coat the interior of high end optics. Its literally a moment where you question the nature of reality- like someone cut a hole into the fabric of the universe.

A whole car would be insane. I guarantee that will cause accidents.

I can see a car that color getting into a lot of accidents considering the amount of idiots that would end up driving with no headlight on because the insider of their car is bright.

I would love to do my fender flares in Vantablack.

Close but no cigar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kga2soqvMF0

What about something that is so black, that it's white?

Quote from: Eye of the Tiger on August 31, 2019, 07:41:41 AM
What about something that is so black, that it's white?

The end of racism?

I have seen recently an Audi A8 with the same treatment. It looked weird and bizarre. The fact that the wheels were left shiny stock made the sight even weirder.

On the blackest black cars, DOT will require two inch reflective tape along 50% of each side of the car.

Stare at it too long and it might suck your eyeballs out.

Quote from: Laconian on August 30, 2019, 03:46:09 PM

Hector, please get one, please please please.

Haha.

I think it's a cool concept. No plans for production however and my car splurging days are on hold for who knows how long!

Quote from: MexicoCityM3 on August 31, 2019, 04:18:41 PM
Haha.

I think it's a cool concept. No plans for production however and my car splurging days are on hold for who knows how long!

Sell the house and get more cars.

Quote from: Lebowski on August 31, 2019, 07:03:46 PM
Sell the house and get more cars.

The best way to fight depression.

Quote from: MexicoCityM3 on August 31, 2019, 04:18:41 PM
Haha.

I think it's a cool concept. No plans for production however and my car splurging days are on hold for who knows how long!

Isn't single life suppose to allow you to do that again?

Quote from: NomisR on September 03, 2019, 09:56:44 AM
Isn't single life suppose to allow you to do that again?

freshly separated/divorced is the poorest time of life. Alimony, child support, setting up new house, kids expenses, then if you start dating that's more $$$$... 

Vantablack is wild.  I want to see that in person.

The easiest black car to photograph.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.9b08290

5x darker than Vantablack? BMW should use this stuff. Gravitational singularities rolling on 22" wheels.