Raazor

Manual only for me.

I sometimes allow my wife to ride in the passenger seat.

Painrace

I would only own a manual but I do occasionally drive my wife's automatic.

Jim

Vette_DD

59.9% of the 2005 C6s made (no Z06s) had an automatic tranny.

50.5% of ALL 2009 C6s (including Z06s & ZR1s) had an automatic tranny.

Wah

The opposite for me. I would never buy a Corvette if it only came with automatic.

SRQStingray

All my cars have been manuals. I won't buy a car with an automatic and have passed on some nice cars because they didn't come with a manual tranny.

mike100

I wouldn't buy a slushbox. sportscars will all eventually get a twin clutch manumatic in the future, most likely, but I think the manual will still be made for awhile.

car2fast4you

Tally Ho

Although every Vette I've owned has been an auto, a manual only option would not stop me from buying one. I'm glad the Corvette didn't rely on the manual only crowd as it would have been still born the first year.

Ounce

Not likely.


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C6MagRed

Nope

FortMorganAl

In the olden days I loved to mess with carburetors, distributors (anyone seen a dwell meter lately?), and manual shifting. Then I wised up and realized that letting an analog/digital computer control the engine made my life a lot easier and the car go faster most of the time also. Now I work on driving technique and let the automatic systems do what they are good at.

If there were only a manual available I would have to think long and hard about whether I wanted the hassle and I certainly wouldn't consider it for a DD as my current A6 is.
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Ok, I've thought hard though not long. Nope. I'd probably find myself in some European sports car with an auto transmission or at least an auto/manual.

goatts

Actually that is all that was offerred on the vette I have.

vettedoogie

I would, depending on a variety of circumstances like how painful my back was at the time, what kind of traffic I was driving in the most, how good the other cars I might be interested were, etc.

Right now, rowing a manual is a major part of my joy of driving my Vette. I'm more in control of the timing as I drive vs the Vette autos I've test-driven.

It also depends on what the term "manual" means at that point in time. I suspect we will be talking about very different "manuals" in the not-too-distant future. Having owned an Audi with DSG, I really enjoyed that at the time but now seeing the problems some are having with them...I don't know.

Snowwolfe

I don't know how to drive an automatic.

Max EPR

In a Corvette, NO. Something else yes but a manual in the Corvette will not work for me. In the Dodge Challenger it works.

sun_bill1974

All I've ever owned was a shifter...I tried doing the responsible family thing with the arrival of both my beautiful sons, Logan and Braden, by buying an automatic 08 528...since its everyday car, hated life ever since we bought that car. Hated the auto trans so much we went over the top, and bought our first vette 3 weeks ago ...my wife and I promised each other we would never buy a auto trans, not even truck

texvette2

Never driven a manual dont plan to start

strawboss

i guess you wont be buying a GM truck then!!!

Kent1999

Yes.
Manual Vettes only for me, at least until the automotive engineers can come up with something far better than the current offerings of slushbox or SMG.

Greenvetter

What would I do with my right arm and left leg? Sounds kind of boring to me.