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Mitsubishi Lancer Goes Musou Black, Looks Like Singularity Engulfed the Evo

No one has seen a black hole up close and personal for obvious reasons: it’s in space, and its gravity is so unbelievably strong that nothing – including light – can escape its grasp. And, yet, thanks to incredible applications such as Vantablack or Black 3.0, we can have things that also eat up more than 99% of visible light.
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo gets dipped in Musou Black 26 photos
Photo: DipYourCar / YouTube
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We all remember that a little more than a year ago, BMW presented the latest generation of the X6 sport utility vehicle (the one with the factory-illuminated grille option) as the world’s darkest car. The prototype was coated in Vantablack, a product made by Surrey NanoSystems that isn’t actually intended for the automotive industry.

It’s also prohibitively expensive to buy something that absorbs up to 99.965% of visible light, so the DipYourCar channel on YouTube went for the next best thing, the newly arrived Musou Black paint from Japan’s KoPro. This isn’t intended for car applications either, but it’s much easier and cheaper to procure – possibly because we’re dealing with real acrylic paint, not a substance made out of “vertically aligned nanotube arrays.”

As far as we’re concerned, dropping from that claimed 99.965% to just 99.4% of the visible light range is not exactly an issue, especially considering the result you get to see from the 3:40 mark in the video embedded below.

We’ve also uploaded some samples of the pretty generic Mitsubishi Lancer Evo (which was covered with a removable black paint prior to applying the Musou Black) in the gallery. Believe us, these are shots of the real car, not some Photoshopped stills.

Yes, the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo looks amazing once the painting process is finished – by the way, they ended up spraying five light coats on the car because they had quite a lot of paint, around two gallons (8 liters) to be exact. And the result is certainly impressive, with elements of the Lancer (front and rear lights or the grille, or example) seemingly appearing out of nowhere. Even the black BBS wheels seem rather gray now!

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About the author: Aurel Niculescu
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Aurel has aimed high all his life (literally, at 16 he was flying gliders all by himself) so in 2006 he switched careers and got hired as a writer at his favorite magazine. Since then, his work has been published both by print and online outlets, most recently right here, on autoevolution.
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