It's not even really up to customers today, most people (me included) will take whatever color is available as long as it's not hideous. That's how I'm ending up with a white car even though I'm not enthusiastic about it. I guess manufacturers know that, so it's no problem for them to keep cranking out the whites and grays.
Was talking to a Mazda salesperson recently and he was complaining that the first five or six of the new CX-90s they were being allocated are all white. Though looking at their website they have some red and dark blue ones on the way now, so maybe that was just the first production run.
No, you're projecting "boring" onto it. That's how you feel about what they're buying, not how they feel.
I stand by my original point that it's tasteful. Classic shades of white, gray, silver, and black are in good taste, which is why people buy them. The buyers aren't saying "I want a boring color", they're saying "I want a tasteful shade".
Bach's fugues are tasteful, french cuisine is good taste.
White and grey cars are just boring, the definition of good taste for the unimaginative petite bourgeoisie, the hallmark of conformity and middle-class sensitivity.
I have a grey car, but I am fully aware this is the case just because I am a terminally boring middle-class denizen, mass-produced, and absolutely non-remarkable for history.
McDonald's is "where the most consumer demand is" but that doesn't make it interesting food. White on a car is "good enough"; people have other priorities than getting the car in their favourite colour.
Was talking to a Mazda salesperson recently and he was complaining that the first five or six of the new CX-90s they were being allocated are all white. Though looking at their website they have some red and dark blue ones on the way now, so maybe that was just the first production run.