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But what
does the 2017 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Carbon Black Edition get you that a regular
carbon-fiber-bodied, 510-hp Firebird Trans Am doesn’t? Beyond the paint,
there’s a 13-speaker Bang & Olufsen stereo. The rest of the 2017 Firebird Trans
Am’s equipment list almost sounds as if the Rolling Stones’ song Paint It,
Black were blaring on an iPod during the product-planning meeting: The 20-inch
wheels have been trimmed in black, interior bits are black, the front grille
and the tailpipes are blackened, and the taillamps are trimmed in black. It’s a
good song.
Drive this 2017 Firebird Trans Am on a hot day, and all that black will attract the heat of our
nearest star, without a source of shade, the car cooks in the sun. Heat waves
blur the background as the doors open wide. The heat seems to localize in a few
pieces of aluminum on the center console. Contact with those hot hunks of metal
activates the brain-stem reflex.