Why the collector garages pick it
A garage built around a car is a room with one subject, and most floor colours either compete with the car or vanish under it. Ember does neither. The near-black base grounds the room and reads as a dark floor from any distance, and the copper chip catches directional light so the floor has movement when you walk around it, which is the same reason people light a car from the corners rather than from overhead. It photographs particularly well, and enthusiast garages get photographed.
The contrast does real work
High internal contrast is what hides dirt, and Ember has more of it than any blend we install except Obsidian Gold. Brake dust, road grit, dry leaves blown in through an open door, none of it has a clean field to sit against. On a rating of five that is a five, and it is not a marketing number: it is the same reason a leopard is hard to see in dappled light. The floor stays presentable between cleanings in a way a solid dark floor never manages.
Lighting it properly
Ember rewards directional light and goes flat under a single ceiling fixture. Two rows of LED strips down the length of the garage, or wall-washed lighting from the sides, will pull the copper out and give the floor depth. Overhead flood lighting from the middle of the ceiling will make it read as brown. If you are wiring the garage as part of the project, this is worth spending twenty minutes on before the floor goes down.