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I don't think it looks better, but I don't think it looks particularly worse, either. I'm in the "you do you" camp, here. There is a solid principle, here, though: when you're painting something in a dark color with hard edges—I mean like an art project, a 3-D object, a shape on a canvas meant to look 3-D, or a model tank or car—there's something called an "edge highlight" where you use a lighter shade of the paint you're using for the whole thing (or something like gray or silver if it's black) to draw a thin line along the edges. This prevents the dark paint from blending together and makes it pop if you do it right… if you do it poorly, it looks like somebody with an unsteady hand tried to trace the art object. I don't think the lines you added perfectly capture this particular technique, but it may be something to think about, maybe if the lines were just a very slightly lighter shade of the car's overall color.
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