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For those interested, GM's lease program for managers was less expensive than for Ford's managers (where I spent the majority of my career). Ford managers could select their cars and the lease prices basically included insurance. E-rolls would get free cars with gas included. At GM is was different for managers as they could not select their vehicles, paid a nominal price, and only held the car for 6 months. This way the vehicles could be considered test cars and skirt the allowable IRS rules for the implicit value of the lease as income. Given that the ZR-1 in question was held for more than 6 months and that the vehicle was not an early production vehicle (early for 95s, but not early for the engineers for the ZR-1 program as a whole), this vehicle could have been executive vehicle, but it was more likely a pool car, likely in engineering not so much as a test vehicle, but a car that people could drive as a counterpart to the newer Corvettes being produced.