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This being a basecoat clearcoat, the color goes on very flat. Controlling the mil thickness of clear is key. In this case the clear could have gone on heavy which based on process parameters is very marginal.

Any of you familiar with the 04-06 GTO clearcoat thickness, that was one of the thinnest I have seen in a while. Chip ahoy.

It is quite easy to wet sand that clear with 1200-1500 grit paper then polish it out. I have done it many times. In this case you would not color sand unless it was an acrylic or a single stage finish prior to clear.

I have see some great factory paint and this being the car that it is, perhaps those manufacturing process engineers spent extra time dialing it in.