Why people paint their car's hood black?

I've seen many on the road and on videos as well.

Is it to keep the heat inside the engine bay?

Anyway, this is kinda a stupich question but i havn't founded the answer yet.

 

To pretend that they have carbon fiber hoods?

 

Most likely...

 

To replicate a Carbon Fiber Hood....Kind of funny since a carbon fiber hood's are quite affordable now.

 

It's also an old-school look. It was popular in the muscle-car era. Example:





I'm not really sure where it originated, though.

 

Hmmm.....Cuuudaaa

 

Even though a Neon is a mopar, I don't think the kids with black painted hoods are paying homage to the muscle car era. Hell, half of them think THEY have a muscle car. "What a old 60's car, my Neon with I/H/E will smoke it!"

 

i read somewhere that they used to do that so the glare can be cut down. it was usually painted a black matte color. this makes sense, but like in my p5, i can't even really see the hood unless i sit really tall and lean forward. i can see it on the 60's muscle cars cause their hoods go on forever. i just sat in my friend's '67 le mans and that thing's hood is crazy long. but it sure is fast! damn thing pulls 14's on the 1/4. i forgot what he was running under the hood. i think it's a 354, but not sure. i'll ask again when i see him today. wait, nevermind. too much of a tangent. yeah, they painted their hoods to cut down on glare back then. now they do it to have it look like a cf hood... or cause they think it will add some power.

 

Well alot of times, a carbon-fiber hood will look black depending which angle you look at it from. I still haven't seen (thank god ) people painting their hoods black....

 

my hood came black from the factory, I'm special and I eat paste