esurt
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I think this is speculative. No-one knows exactly when specs rollout to the production line. The year of manufacture is just that.. its not a build version. One could argue the chinese new year date might have been more important as any re-tooling could have been done over the shutdown.
Agree, spec changes don't necessarily match the year of the manufacturer in the VIN, but the majority of the demo cars were manufactured at a slightly earlier date than the cars most of are expecting.