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It's called iridescence. The color changes when the angle between the light source, the painted surface, and your eye changes. So it changes not only when the car moves but when you move. Or when the light source moves, though if this is the sun, that'll be very slowly. Oil slicks on water create the rainbow effect in the same way except that in that case, it's the surface of the water that's moving, causing the angle of reflection to change. Some paint manufacturers sell iridescent paint, which may work through the addition of a small amount of oil to the paint. Another way it may work on cars with metallic paint is that the paint contains flecks of metal with different pigments, positioned randomly within the paint, and as the car moves, the sun reflects off different flecks into your eye. When through a red fleck, the paint looks red. When through a blue fleck, the paint looks blue.

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