Performance Data Recorder (PDR) Chip
Drifting
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This feels more like a typical First World problem. I guess if GM included the $14 SD card, then we would have all be having a $70,014 + car instead, perhaps even more. If GM did include a basic card, there is a corresponding cost to be passed on to the buyer. Perhaps GM could offer an extra cost RPO code with a selection of sizes to those who want to buy it, but I would bet you could still get them cheaper than what GM would charge from WallyWorld or Amazon.
GM took a lot of flack for bundling in the PDR with the nav - there are those who wanted the nav and were not so excited about the PDR but they didn't have a choice. Those folks certainly wouldn't be interested in paying additional for a factory-provided card for something they didn't want in the first place. Thus GM leaves that decision on whether to buy/pay for a card to the buyer, and IMO that is a good thing.
GM took a lot of flack for bundling in the PDR with the nav - there are those who wanted the nav and were not so excited about the PDR but they didn't have a choice. Those folks certainly wouldn't be interested in paying additional for a factory-provided card for something they didn't want in the first place. Thus GM leaves that decision on whether to buy/pay for a card to the buyer, and IMO that is a good thing.
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To answer the question posed in your original post, yes, everyone buying a new 2015 or 2016 Corvette with the PDR received it without an SD card installed. Knowing that there are many SD card sizes available, I am glad that I was able to install the particular size that I wanted to use in my wife's 2015 and that I didn't wind up with another SD card laying around that I do not need. You would think that most people would already have several SD cards at his or her disposal. Maybe GM thought the same. 
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Dracia you asked a reasonable question and I agree with you. The 3LT Preferred Equipment Grp on my car list for $9,450. Features included Performance Data and Video Recorder. (PDR) Owner manual has 6 pages devoted to it's operation and use of a SD card but does not say whether or not it is provided. It is not a used car AS IS deal but a new C7 with MSRP 70K+. I did not know a required SD Card does not come with PDR unless the car is museum delivery. You are certainly entitled to suggest it should.
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Dracia you asked a reasonable question and I agree with you. The 3LT Preferred Equipment Grp on my car list for $9,450. Features included Performance Data and Video Recorder. (PDR) Owner manual has 6 pages devoted to it's operation and use of a SD card but does not say whether or not it is provided. It is not a used car AS IS deal but a new C7 with MSRP 70K+. I did not know a required SD Card does not come with PDR unless the car is museum delivery. You are certainly entitled to suggest it should.
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I'm glad it DOESN'T come with one. No auto manufacturer just gives hardware away, so they would've charged us 3 times the price for the card than what you would pay at Best Buy. Your $70,000 Corvette would've been a $70,100 Corvette with a measly 16gb card.
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You got a full tank of gas. Should have asked for a half tank, taken the money and bought a mem card.
Rumor has it windshield wipers won't be on the 2017's.
But will be an option. Regular wipers will be $50 a pair. The high speed aero wipers will be $125, and the Z07 (track attack) racing wipers will be $275...each(they will be carbon fiber).
Rumor has it windshield wipers won't be on the 2017's.
But will be an option. Regular wipers will be $50 a pair. The high speed aero wipers will be $125, and the Z07 (track attack) racing wipers will be $275...each(they will be carbon fiber).
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and then there's the complaint you'd see if the PDR came with the memory card...
"car came with PDR; won't be using it. GM added $xx to the price of the option to include a SD card I won't be using. GM Sucks !!!"
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Boy oh Boy!! Reading some of these posts and I'm amazed that a few posters seem to have their heads so far up GM's butt you can barely see their shoes. 
GM is far from perfect. If they come up short, that's the nature of the beast.
I went through a showroom of about 35 brand new Corvettes and EVERY ONE of them had some level of Orange Peel. They DO have a paint problem.
They're not including a memory card because they don't want to give you one. If they did, one would come with the car. That's who they are!!! My new Phantom 3 drone actually came with a memory card. That's who they are. (no orange peel either
)
GM is far from perfect. If they come up short, that's the nature of the beast.
I went through a showroom of about 35 brand new Corvettes and EVERY ONE of them had some level of Orange Peel. They DO have a paint problem.
They're not including a memory card because they don't want to give you one. If they did, one would come with the car. That's who they are!!! My new Phantom 3 drone actually came with a memory card. That's who they are. (no orange peel either
)
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Boy oh Boy!! Reading some of these posts and I'm amazed that a few posters seem to have their heads so far up GM's butt you can barely see their shoes.
GM is far from perfect. If they come up short, that's the nature of the beast.
I went through a showroom of about 35 brand new Corvettes and EVERY ONE of them had some level of Orange Peel. They DO have a paint problem.
They're not including a memory card because they don't want to give you one. If they did, one would come with the car. That's who they are!!! My new Phantom 3 drone actually came with a memory card. That's who they are. (no orange peel either)
GM is far from perfect. If they come up short, that's the nature of the beast.
I went through a showroom of about 35 brand new Corvettes and EVERY ONE of them had some level of Orange Peel. They DO have a paint problem.
They're not including a memory card because they don't want to give you one. If they did, one would come with the car. That's who they are!!! My new Phantom 3 drone actually came with a memory card. That's who they are. (no orange peel either
)1. When normal people see my red Z06 convertible, they come up to me or roll down their window and say:
A. "Look at all that orange peel. GM ought to be ashamed of itself."
B. "My Phantom 3 drone has no orange peel."
C. "My Phantom 3 drone came with a memory card."
D. Some variation of "That's a nice car, sir!" "I like your car!" "Please tell me that's yours!" [texted with a picture of my car] wherever I go.
2. People prefer the exhaust note of:
A. a Phantom 3 drone
B. a Z06 exceeding 3500rpm
Enjoy your Phantom 3 drone and your wait for the new paint shop while I enjoy my Z06. You're totally missing out.
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LOL. In the OP just asked a simple question. I did not mean to start an intellectual exchange with someone ill equipped to participate. And by the way, you must have noticed that the best card costs less than a half a tank of gas. So it is not now and never has been about the money. It is the thought that counts.