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Originally Posted by LowLife1
So I'm confused about the total number of coupes built. Someone posted the number 1152. Which I ass-u-me  to mean that 1152 sequentially numbered VIN coupes would be built.
However, someone else also posted saying they had bought a pre-sequential number VIN coupe. So again, do we have a number for the total number of coupes built?
As as side note, when I went to a dealership several weeks ago and viewed a non-sequential numbered coupe (with a hand written note displayed on top of it saying it was a 2010) I told the salesman it couldn't be a 2010 because they hadn't started building them yet. He looked at a book, admitted it wasn't 2010 and said the car was not intended for public sale. Since then others have posted saying pre-sequential VIN coupes can be sold to the public. |
LowLife, it is not so hard:
A batch of coupes were made before the decision to ship to fill retail orders. This is the batch my wife's car came from, and they are in the 2009 VIN range of 104000 - 106000. About 101 of these were made.
These were used for media, internal testing, captured test fleet usage, etc., and those not damaged or used to modify were made available to purchase through GM's company-used system. A few may be auctioned off, even.
Then they decided the car was ready to ship, sometime in the spring of 2009. They decided to start numbering the coupes at 000001, and are scheduled to approximately 001152.
In between this, they also built some 2010 cars, before the plant was chosen to be one that will be closed. I assume these cars will never be sold, but I really have no idea how they will handle these cars.
DaveOC - the plant is still scheduled to come up on July 13 and finish out, closing finally on July 31.
