The car absorbs 99.4 percent of light, but features speckled luminescent spots that make it look like the night sky.

The project required the use of musou black paint made by koyo orient Japan. hypershift, pearlescent particles used to create shiny finishes on cars.

The rights to create art with vantablack were granted exclusively to one artist. Anish Kapoor is apparently one of the few qualified to apply it.