A few different possibilities: Phase one: http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Features/articleId=109902 http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Features/articleI

A few different possibilities: Phase one: http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Features/articleId=109902 http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Features/articleId=1099... Legacy form factor mules with advanced technology in them. Phase two: Performance tuning shops often pick up early versions of cars to start testing, looking for saleable mods, and adapting their lines to the new products. I would expect we'd start seeing reflashes for systems within a few months of a vehicle release Phase three: As platform N depreciates and platform N+1 goes into production, N-class cars start falling into the hands of people more willing to cut them open and hack (track/hobby cars). If N and N+1 run the same code (project/source level, not binaries), features could be committed by individual hackers and could be picked up by manufacturers as desired. Of course this is all predicated on this release being a real, public, open source project. If their desire/intent is to create an open source platform so that 2-5 manufacturers can share IP, it's possible that we'll never see the infrastructure to flash things ourselves, in which case this is all a big fat stinky dead end. :/