For all you auto-magazine prototype papparazzi spending hours hunting and stalking camouflaged cars to get some good shots and some nice brownie points from the editor as well, you just won’t like any bit of this. Car makers are fighting back to guard their very precious privacy, I mean their new launches by making photographing the camouflaged cars one very mean task.
Spotting a camouflaged car is a tough proposition in itself, how about taking pics and then finding out that all your pics reveal nothing but a blur outline or even fishes. Leading the charge is Vauxhall, Opel’s British subsidiary, which has developed a technique of covering their prototype cars with fish shaped pattern stickers which they call ‘fishies’ and they have used it on their latest Vauxhall Insignia.
These ‘fishies’ apparently confuse camera lenses, and all that poor prototype paparazzi get are blurred pictures. And if that is not enough, Vauxhall are now planning to use ‘flimmies’. The ‘flimmies’ are stickers which will create a flickering effect. Other disguises the car makers usually use are, outfitting the prototype with unusual headlamps and even badging the prototypes with their rival manufacturers’ logos. Obviously, it will just be a matter of time before the other manufacturers, taking a leaf out of Vauxhall’s book, start using ‘fishies’ and ‘flimmies’. Life has just become a whole load tougher for the prototype paparazzi.
Source: TumundoesOnline
