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Re:Watching Paint Dry: The unexpectedly interesting story of... by wlesieutre on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @02:10PM (#36048402)
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.

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Re:Watching Paint Dry: The unexpectedly interesting story of... by crazygringo on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @02:26PM (#36048672)
It's still up to customers in the sense that car companies are cranking out whites and grays because that's where the most consumer demand is.

If people stopped buying white today, Mazda would stop producing it tomorrow.

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Re:Watching Paint Dry: The unexpectedly interesting story of... by wlesieutre on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @02:28PM (#36048702)
I get that they do it because it's boring and unobjectionable, but I stand by my original point that it is boring.
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Re:Watching Paint Dry: The unexpectedly interesting story of... by crazygringo on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:18PM (#36049387)
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".

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Re:Watching Paint Dry: The unexpectedly interesting story of... by wlesieutre on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:55PM (#36050007)
Maybe we can agree that it's tastefully boring

At least it's not beige, which would only be boring

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Re:Watching Paint Dry: The unexpectedly interesting story of... by crazygringo on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @04:28PM (#36050421)
> At least it's not beige

Ugh, if the 1990's are calling, tell them I'm not home!

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Re:Watching Paint Dry: The unexpectedly interesting story of... by wlesieutre on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @04:44PM (#36050618)
If you get a call from the 1990's tell Honda to bring back cypress green pearl

Meanwhile at Mazda, I can see "zircon sand" working for the CX-50, but I'm skeptical on the Miata https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a41995585/2023-mazda-miata...

Unless it's such a weird choice that it somehow transcends boringness?

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Re:Watching Paint Dry: The unexpectedly interesting story of... by elzbardico on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @06:31PM (#36051679)
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.

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Re:Watching Paint Dry: The unexpectedly interesting story of... by lmm on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @07:10PM (#36051989)
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.
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