[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Alvin

Please educate me: what are "non Saleable" vehicles? Pilots used to verify/check/modify assembly techniques, parts, fit & finish to be scrapped after testing, fleet lease future use, or?

Exactly. Manufacturing Validation Build - Non Salable is a manufacturing event to exercise the material procurement and assembly processes. The vehicles built are purchased by internal customers like Marketing, Powertrain, Pre-Production Build operations, Safety, Engineering Integration, etc, and can not be sold to the public after completion of their internal uses. These will have an experimental (EX) VIN to prevent their sale and subsequent titling for street use (they can be sold via "Bill of Sale", but not titled).

MVB-Saleable is the next level of refinement, only those vehicles have production VINs and can be sold, usually after a retrofit to update latest design content.

Start of Regular Production comes after that.

Originally Posted by Alvin

Wow! I can't imagine how many times you've heard "experts" @ automotive gatherings and/or 'InterWeb' writings telling all about their "Dimitri" builds "snuck through the system" due to "special connections"

Yep - it could happen but as the complexity goes up the probability goes down. Wish I had a dollar for every story I've heard (...and every story I've perpetuated...).



I'm always very gracious, though.


K