S'CHARGED S550 MUSTANG
The kids would call it ‘murdered out’. But this idea of a black-onblack-on-black colour scheme (or perhaps ‘absence-of-colour scheme’ is a more appropriate term) stretches back as far as human memory allows. 1930s gangsters signalled their arrival in their all-black Ford Model Bs with a rousing blast from their Tommy guns as they hung off the running boards, and the mean and moody approach reaches into the theoretical future too. Does the name Hotblack Desiato ring a bell? His spaceship in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was pure, terrifying noir: ‘Every time you try to operate one of these weird black controls, which are labelled in black on a black background, a small black light lights up black to let you know you've done it. What is this,