From our in-shop testing, these blow the legacy coatings away. Visually, it's no contest - ION appears to really truly change the look (hard to put into text but customers have walked into our shop to see first hand and noted) - when these go on it appears "thick", almost PPF-like. From a durability perspective, virtually the same. We would class 'ION' around a Gold Package. Ultimate ION far above and beyond Gold.