RAW images losing saturation while my JPegs keep the saturation

i had a PC and now a brand new IMac 4K 27 inch computer. Both computers are showing the same issue. When i shoot in RAW format when i go to look at them in lightroom or a basic PC windows viewer the pic uploads in normal color and then turns to a gray tone. This only happens with RAW pics which lose the saturation and jPegs hold the saturation. I looked at some data and the gray amount in the histogram part of the picture dominates and other colors like greens reds blues yellows etc. barely show any amounts on histogram. Any thoughts?

Take a look at the red on the engine how it goes from a nice candy apple to dull. Top is before and below is after. I took a screen shot after seeing this happen to many many photos before. It is almost like it processes the photo how it sees fit and looking at the images and how much saturation and color they use i cant imagine why it would do that. The reason why the histogram graph doesn't show anything info in the graph/chart is it is still loading the image and then you can see the results in the second pictures histogram graph/chart once the image has loaded. Once i initially upload this into Lightroom or windows view etc it never goes back to the original great looking color picture it stay in the gray dull look
a few more RAWS to compare and see the issue
now you can compare these above which are RAWs to the JPEG below which doesnt change once uploaded and has a much more colorful historgram

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