I see lots of new cars with flat looking finishes that look DIY but are factory.
Maybe this “minimalist” trend is code for conditioning the public to accept less.
Have you seen actual DIY “flat looking” finishes? They are pathetic looking. Sort of the modern world equivalent of the old spray can primer paint job.
Those flat looking paint jobs are really semi-flat and borderline “semi-gloss”. I didn’t like them at first, but they grew on me. They look pretty cool on some vehicles and in some colors.
Yeah, a sort of “Soviet” aesthetician, kinda like the Wal-Mart market...