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If you haven’t been reading the GM Authority RPO series, chances re you’ve seen or heard an RPO in various GM-related conversations. And if this is the absolute first time you’ve come across the RPO label, then that’s cool as well. Whatever the case may be, we thought it pertinent — especially given The General’s changes to 2012 model-year vehicles — to bring to light what, exactly, an RPO is.
RPO stands for Regular Production Option and is General Motors’ standard coding for the configuration options of a vehicle. Usually composed of a combination of three alphanumeric characters (like LS3), an RPO code designates how a vehicle is built during production. As such, an RPO code furnishes the distinct configuration of a particular vehicle as it leaves the factory. So, how does the RPO framework work?