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Originally Posted by Petrol Head
Yes thieves are scum, but what I want to know is why on earth did the engineer assigned to that particular car leave it out on the street to begin with.
These IVERs are not finalized production cars. Thankfully the scumbags only got the wheels. If they had stolen the whole car, the issue that GM would face is a vehicle without finalized production parts getting out into the public. Once full scale production begins these IVERs get destroyed. Yes, every "2020 Corvette" you've seen to this point (except for MAYBE one or two that will be tucked away in the vaults or land in a GM owned museum someday) will actually be destroyed once the REAL ones start full scale production. These cars have no VIN and cannot be licenced and registered for the street. They're also exempt from all North American emission testing. And letting these out to the public would be a risk GM cannot take on, as a part may fail causing injury to someone. So long as it's in the possession of a GM employee, it's insured as property of General Motors.
Believe me, this engineer had a sit down with his manager and maybe even Mary Barra herself when he got back to the office after reporting the wheels were stolen because he left it on the street.
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Most pre-pros get crushed. But others are saleable, or can be converted to saleable units with minimal effort. It mostly depends on how far along the program was when it got built.
Given that we're about a week out from regular production beginning, any car built in Bowling Green is going to have all the production parts and everything will be validated. What they're doing at this point will be working out how to assemble the pieces quickly & correctly. Such cars often get sold used.
Others that were built a short while ago, might have a few trim pieces that got tweaked or something. Change those out, and you've got something identical to a regular production car.
Now, the ones that were hand built on a dummy line to 'prove' the car is in fact build-able, or the ones that were engineering prototypes? Yeah, the only way they're leaving GM's hands is as a little cube of metal and plastic.