what exactly is this?

[Kühl Carbon]

High-res pics are the norm for these activities at GM ... and the pics were staged by, and taken at GM, no doubt about it. These are the initial photos taken of a styling exercise, and then distributed, "GM Confidential" of course, throughout the corporation. This applies to a production clay.

These pics are of the show vehicle, that's why I say "strange".... They may have been "released" by GM in the manner you describe ....

This whole project was kind of strange to begin with. Like I said, Venture Industries built the show vehicle. Maybe these pics were taken at one of their upper management reviews since they did not have the normal GM styling input .... I don't really think anybody knew H2 would be a "go program" when these pics were taken.

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