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Originally Posted by 50MileSmile
You’ll never get the numbers broken down - total cars built only. We’ve been trying since 2018 to get them, and Chevy always says they’re not available, because they don’t track production that way (which I’ve always thought was BS). One time Chevy told me it’s really because they don’t want to get into the middle of the “My car is rarer than yours” arguments.
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Originally Posted by JT6Speed
Very annoying indeed. I know from previous years that at some point they do at least come out with numbers to break it down by trim and color, or trim and trans. So you can see for example how many black 1SS cars they made, or how many 1SS came in manual.
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50MileSmile is probably right in that they don't want to release the numbers, which is the dumbest "security by obscurity" and legal CYA stance that GM is perpetuating here. They're not the only ones, though, I recall working for Ford a looong time ago as an interpreter, and had to memorize their own dictionary of automotive terms that they made up, presumably to prevent industrial espionage.
I'm almost certain GM have exact inventory stats about every single numbered part and subassembly that goes into each vehicle, not just trim and color. They must be able to easily query their databases for, say, how many convertible 2LTs were made in the second week of May 2017 with kalahari knee pads and NPP, along with their VINs---basically they could give us any tabulation by any properties, down to individual part numbers, but they will not (anyone remember those A8 shudder or oil pump threads? imagine people were able to figure out whose cars have the sucky initial LT4 oil pumps and hitting the courts en masse).