You noticed it as well? Cars are so drab now that I think it is altering the color cones in our eyes. Last year I had a battery pass away in a restaurant parking lot. I called
AAA to give me a jump and they asked for my location. I told them about in the middle of the parking lot. It would be hard to miss because it is bright red and the only color besides white, gray or black in the very full parking lot. We have become dull and boring in this century.