Glossary / General

pre-production

9 Episode Mentions

Too Afraid to Ask

Pre-production is the testing stage before a car is mass‑made; it’s where engineers fine‑tune designs.

Technical Definition

Pre-production refers to the phase before a vehicle goes into full production, where prototypes are built and tested.

Hear It Discussed

"But stuff like the EX-60, I've done it with a bunch of other cars actually, where they're pre-production, but like the ID buzz I did a long time ago was pre-production, but like it was production...."
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"A handful of pre-production cars were fitted with experimental aluminum blocks."
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"But I'm just wondering how close to pre-production are the production models going to be? Like, are there going to be any big design changes that we're going to see?"
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