Love my black car. And for car care, its all Zaino all the time for me. My car looks spectacular - way better than showroom new despite is being a 2 yr old daily driver. I get comments on it all the time and won a car show with it.

 

I have a black 05 and the guy I bought it from was getting rid of it for a 08 bullitt, because he hated keeping the black clean. When I was looking at cars I too was between the blues (true blue and sonic blue), black, and mineral grey. I when I found this car the price and option list was right. So I went with the black.

Now I have a love/hate relationship with the black! In the right light the black looks BA and nothing beats a good looking black car, but in other lights it shows imperfections. I drives me nuts! I don't like to touch it with anything while cleaning it, but if it isn't totally clean it doesn't look its best.

I don't know if I would buy black again, my wife wants a 2011 Edge Sport in black and all I do is think about how much a PITA it would be to keep looking good. I might buy a black car again if it was a car that stayed covered most of the time and that I only drove on the nicest days. But every time I see a sweet black car/truck I want all of my cars to be black. I guess it comes down to how much time and how meticulous you are with washing, drying, waxing, etc.

 

 

This. Yeah, it's tough to take care of the right way, but it is soooo worth it. I have so many people tell me "I am jealous of your paint".

Ford's black is definitely not the highest of quality though... my friend has a black 08 that he drives a bunch on highway trips in all-weather... he doesn't have as much time to wax as I do. The swirls on that car are terrible. :[

Nothing that can't be fixed with a little Zaino, though!

Nothing reflects better than a clean gloss black car

 

i dunno, I'm not buying another black car after this. I think i'm going white for my next car, it's just so much time to keep a daily driven, non garaged black car clean.

I was also somewhat considering some metallic on my car, so i could skimp on the jams (close enough?). I like the metallic black alot of companies have, especially Chrysler's "brilliant black"...
I don't know a specific price but it won't be cheap for a full repaint, you gotta start asking around at shops

 

Ford or any other brand is not really the problem as the paint is applied by robots by almost all car manufacturers world wide...
High end cars are buffed out from the factory, like Porsche for example..
If it wasn't for that you'd have the same orange peel found on cheaper cars.


Any good body shop will spray better than freaking robots and you'll have enough material to wet sand and buff if need to be.
Can't do that with factory paint jobs because there won't be any material left after wet sanding...

 

Black may not be easy to keep clean (white is no walk in the park either), but god damn it looks good when it's clean and waxed

 

wait, you mean there are alternatives to black? Perish the thought!

 

I may be in the minority here, but if I were looking to paint the car after a bunch of body work, I'd KILL to switch over to a flat/hot rod black and go with gloss accents (drooling at the thought of flat black with gloss kr or SS stripes).

 

I think that COULD look really sick if done right