White on performance cars became desirable in the late 2000's when Mercedes-AMG started doing the Black models. These typically involved black wheels, black badges, black stripes, black spoilers, black mirrors ect. At the time AMG were using white for a lot of the press cars, suddenly everyone wanted white with black, and the car companies obliged. I'll admit, those AMG's looked crisp, but then everyone else started doing it and wasn't especially unique anymore.
As some will know, I was trying to find a Jaguar F-Type R due to Ford dragging their heels with the Mustang. 90% of F-Type's on the used market were white with black interiors. What a waste! One of the most beautiful cars ever made, and 90% of those who could afford one brand-new chose white. What? Why?
I also could never understand why FPV buyers would by a Falcon GT or F6 Typhoon in Winter White. The vast majority of Ford Falcon's ever made were painted white and sold into rental fleets, taxi's, police cars, governmental cars, company fleets. So why would you buy the special performance model and make it look like a rental? And this was during an era when Ford offered a stunning array of colors, from mild to wild. I get it, not everyone will want a fluro yellow or plum purple, but white? Nope.
Same with the final Sprint models, unless you know what you are looking at, in white it looked like a rental car.
Sorry for the rant, for me, color is the second most important feature of a car.
