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Originally Posted by kllrvet
You have kind of skirted this question: HOW DOES ONE AQUIRE A Captured Test Fleet Car ? How do you do that, when the car isn't even available for purchase yet?
Please enlighten us.
Tony
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Tony, I think it's kind of like snipe hunting... Seriously, these people are GM employees that volunteered or are asked by GM to conduct some testing with these cars. Here is an explanation from GM's VP of global program management, Jon Lauckner (in reference to test vehicles for the Volt):
"First of all as part of the development program we typically have small numbers of vehicles that we put out in the hands of people that drive them on a daily basis. That’s a part of our development program that occurs prior to production. We call that a “captured test fleet”. Captured meaning we know where the cars are and we know who the drivers are, and test fleet because the cars aren’t in production yet. We use the versions that we build at the tail end of the development cycle to really put them out there on a daily basis to get better understanding of whats going on with the vehicles."
"Typically we put these in the hands of GM folks, when we do it prior to the start of production; employees, people in the technical community, people who work in the plants, manufacturing, etc."