Best of many but I'm still not happy with the results

[supraman215]

Ok,

I upped the brightness of the whole image, which washed it out a bit so I tried to up the contrast to compensate.

Then I isolated the car and upped the blue channel a little to make it pop a little more.

Cropped

Did some cloning in the background.

Better? Still looks a little washed out to me.

 

[supraman215]

The sky looks fine to me :

Sorry. I just can't stop myself. I need help.

Oh hell yeah that's exactly what I'm talking about that's beautiful. Maybe instead of understanding exposure I need Understanding how to improve your images in PP. that's where I think I struggle a great deal.