demonstration model

British  

noun

1. a nearly new product, such as a car or washing machine, that has been used only to demonstrate its performance by a dealer and is offered for sale at a discount

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Example Sentences

A demonstration model in New York City had failed, but Glasgow, Scotland, and Budapest, Hungary, had successfully started subways the year before.

From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2022

There, a demonstration model, a towering network of tanks and pipes, fed by CO2 tanks, turns waste gas into solid carbon particles.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2021

It was a half-scale demonstration model of the LMH-1, the airship that the company has been quietly developing for the past twenty-five years.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 29, 2016

The statuette was made as a demonstration model and was not intended for an artist, Ms Bain said.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2013

"Killer" had been shipped to the Customer Technology Center in the Dallas Infomart, essentially a high-technology mall, and there it sat, a demonstration model.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce