Well, I'd say Ben covered it pretty well (who am i kidding, of course he did). I just wanted to throw in something to go with shine and contrast. I'm all about contrast anyway, in any art, but it's true that it will help with giving the impression that something is shiny. There are fewer gradients in something shiny than a lot of artists use, as in your case. gradients work to show a color shift in paint maybe for a metallic feel but reflections are another matter. Use hard lines to show the horizon for example, or a bend in the sheet metal. Combine that with high contrast and you will look more shiny. Find your happy medium though. There are artists who draw cars that don't do it like that and are excellent, and others who take it even further to make the paint look like still water or glass. It's whatever you want to accomplish.
Also if I was starting all over again and hadn't settled on my method (or hadn't spent so much money on it) then I think I would try markers. There are lots of marker tutorials to be had online and some people doing really cool cars with markers. They might offer you better results than colored pencils.
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