Tag: manual

They are the discussions that never end. Sometimes they’re about aesthetics, sometimes about performance, and sometimes about car care, but they all have one thing in common: these are the seven best ways to beat a dead horse on Corvette Forum.

More fuel to throw on the manual versus automatic fire…

Even if you’re a diehard fan of manual Corvettes and contend that you’d never drive anything else, you can’t deny some of the conveniences that come with an automatic transmission.

The Corvette C6 Z06 is popular among drag racing in automatic transmission form, but how does a manual gearbox hold up?

If you want the most performance out of your C7 Corvette Stingray, a manual is your best bet, and when it comes to fuel economy, the seven-speed manual also wins the day with a 17-city/29-highway/21-combined EPA rating. Compared to the standard C6 with a manual (16 city/26 highway/19 combined), that’s a 10.5-percent improvement. Because most […] More »

Chevrolet delivered 485 Corvette Stingrays last month. Just to gloat a bit, let’s compare that to the 426 SRT Vipers that have been sold all year. On a side note, if you are a Viper fan, stop sitting on your checkbook because there are 565 Vipers sitting on dealer lots across the country right now. […] More »

If you’ve been using Corvette Forum for longer than thirty seconds then you know that certain members have VERY strong opinions about some things. For instance: clay bars, originality, tail lights, and transmissions. And it’s that last item that brings us to this post. Our recent speculation about GM’s newly patented DCT spawned quite a frenzy. […] More »