Honda S2000

Nobody buys an S2000 as a stepping stone. People hang onto these, which changes what the right answer is on paint, because you're looking after a car you're planning to hand down rather than trade in. This one got Icon Rocklear, our permanent paint protection coating, and on a roadster it shows up first in the curves along the fenders and the trunk lid, deep and glassy under whatever light you've got on it.

The rest of what it's doing is quieter. It keeps the paint from going dull the way factory clear coat does with age, and it doesn't need redoing later, which is about right for a car that isn't going anywhere. There's more on what the coating is doing on our Icon Rocklear page.