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Originally Posted by N54Yankee
By performance tweaking I didn’t mean changing hard parts per se, just fiddling with software in the trans for example as we said but in addition possibly engine tuning, minor suspension settings and the like, small changes. We know that much of a cars today’s functions are done with computers and it’s software, Small changes can add up to a better car. As well as fit and finish stuff of course.
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That's wishful thinking.
Those cars the magazines got to test has real VINs. As in they rolled off the production line as intended. Is there going to be some rolling changes? Yeah. Just like the mag ride software was changed for 2017, 2018, and 2019, or the dash software was changed between 2014 and 2015, and USB port added in 2016 and more cooling cores added in 2017 for the Z06...etc. There will ALWAYS be some running changes, and that's just the nature of the beast.
But the 2020 Corvette rolling off the production line are going to be virtually identical to the cars that was provided to the journalists to test drive, you can count on it. It is already too late to make wholesale changes on the car as most of the specifications are already locked in for production. I've done work with GM in the past, and believe you me, they don't work the way YOU think they work. In order to get the massive discount in scale for the parts, they're all ordered 6-8 months ahead of time, and it takes moving heaven and earth to make production changes. That's why, if there's going to be significant changes to geometry or transmission programming, it won't come until 2021 MY at the earliest.
This mantra bears repeating. NEVER buy first year GM products. NEVER (That goes for BMWs too, actually). Give it at least 1 full production year for the early adapters to sort out the problems for GM first.