Dynamic Drop-down menus for filtering and searching

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We sell automotive paints, so our products are paints (paint codes). A paint code can be used in a specific year, by a specific car manufacturer, for a specific model. Year, Make, Model. We had originally thought to set up my store with Year Make and Model as categories, and the paints as products. A single paint can be used in many years on many models, and sometimes different manufactures. We currently have about 20,000 products.

We would like to have 3 drop down menus to filter or search for a specific paint. So the first drop down would have years. 2000-2019 and a customer can choose say 2005. The next drop-down would have car manufacturers (Acura..BMW..Volvo), but filtered by year, so only car manufacturers that had paints for 2005, for this example lets use Toyota, The third drop-down would have car models and it would be based on the firs two selections, So it would only list 2005 Toyota models, Camry, Tundra, Tacoma... This can be easily seen on one of our competitors paintscratch.com.

So my question is can I do this with filters on Hikashop? And should I use Categories, or Attributes?