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Old 03-07-2009, 12:14 PM   #164
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Originally Posted by fbodfather View Post
Isn't that a "purty sight???"


Those are Captive Test Fleet vehicles -- including the ones you've seen on transports in various parts of the country......
From an article on the Chevy Volt Rollout:

"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."
Those pictures look like a lot more than "a small number of vehicles"

I'm just sayin'
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