exact opposite happen. I have yet to see a Miata picture online that looked good in flat black. In fact, I thought they all looked about as dumb as could be online - probably the worst car to do that to. Then I saw one locally that actually looked pretty good to me. I was shocked. I went back and looked at more pics online, even of the same car, and I still think they look like complete crap in flat black in pictures. Go figure.