I'm looking at a variety of G8 tail lights and all the stock lights are NOT black, leading me to believe he altered them with the cling on/sticky covers...especially if the car in the article is his. You'd have to be blind and dumb to think that came stock.

Supposedly this is the dude's car...

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/image...adae2/340x.jpg

And this is stock...

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...tail_light.jpg