If that is you idea of fast shifting and being responsive then you have idea what a fast automatic is... seriously. They were quick for an auto 15 years ago... but not today.


This new 8 speed can be great (I hope it will be), or it can suck, time will tell, but if it as terrible as the auto in those cars, it will be a total failure.

 

The corvette engineering team stated the 8 speed automatic is a no compromise performance transmission.....which means lap times on the road course should dual the manual transmission option...

Acceleration usually favors automatics anyways so the A8 should be a huge win.

I look forward to test driving the 8 speed versus 7 speed to decide for myself.

You ll know rather quickly which you prefer.

 

Very true. I hope it is extremely durable also. If it can't handle the modifications people undoubtably will perform on many of these cars it will get a bad name quickly. LMR and company's like them are puting over 1000 horse through the current auto with only a torque converter change. So far the transmission is living. Granted its life is probably being shortened.

 

Somebody said they were going really short? But that can't be true, since, they are still talking some pretty mundane number!

 

Does the top vette get nothing off the line?!

the manual M5 takes 4.2 seconds to reach 60 mph and 12.5 seconds to pass the quarter mile. The fastest twin-clutch-equipped M5 we tested clocked in at 3.7 seconds to 60 and 11.9 seconds for the quarter mile.

Read more: http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/...#ixzz30nQyON6L

 

The sky is falling....the sky is falling...the sky is falling.
Why don't you just wait for the actual testing of the car to reveal how it performs instead of embarrassing yourself with this nonsense?

If you're not out there spreading completely incorrect info, you're swinging your feeble strawman at issues that don't exist.
S.

 

it is not clear how you are saying it should work. in the A6 you pull the right paddle for upshift and pull the left paddle for down shift. What is the way that you are saying is better, and why is it better?

 

I believe they changed it for the C7. I think he's referring to the C6.

 

But I can't think of a logical reason Tadge would be minimizing this or The Ring info. All I am doing is keeping score based on known info. IE 3.5s 0-60 is really going to be 3.4. Wow!!! And they aren't spending 2 million on a ring time, and not making a SCCA vette like the Z28 with its stiffer suspension.

And I hope your right and they will end up doing really well, but, again there just aren't real good indications of that.

 

Underpromise and Over deliver.
They did it with the whole car up to this point.
the C7 Z51 was enough to Face Trounce the GTR on Willowsprings, it embarrassed the 911 too there for that matter. Hell it keeps up with (and makes a drivers race) with a F12 around Laguna. Both of which are more powerful cars, pretty comfortably.

What makes you think the C7 ZO6 will not continue the tradition of Face Trouncing the competition like the C6 Z, and the C5 Z before it?

Ring times at the moment aren't important for the sales of the C7 Stingray. The car hasn't hit it's "slump" yet. For that matter, all of us know this is just the Base Model, and for all the concerns about handling on the Ring only two things really matter there, Horsepower and Weight. Speeds on the ring are much higher than on most full road courses.

The ZO6, we already know was already a full second and change faster than the outgoing ZR1 on GM's proving ground. That was on it's first lap with no on track feedback to develop the car with. One Second, on a very tight, and cramped track. On it's first lap.

Also, I don't buy the GTR's ring time. If the GTR were really capable of the time on the ring that it were, they'd have sent that sucker straight from the ring to Laguna seca to dethrone the Viper and the ZR1. But they haven't. Infact the current GTR got smoked on edmunds by a Z51 C7... says alot about just how "heroic" that car really is when the base model beat it like a foster child

 

I believe they were flirting with 3.9s in those interactions. And yes we have seen a 3.7s so something similar relatively would almost be acceptable? But the old Z51 was 4.1s and the ZR1 was 3.3s so I'd be looking for improvement even in the early rhetoric!

As far as The Ring probably the mid teens if they do it, which, would put them way ahead of the Porsche turbo S. That would work!

I'm not saying this isn't a much improved car its only that I don't like being wrong and I have predicted very good across the board all things considered! I was thinking the Z07 would be stiffer for road racing, but, it actually makes sense that it isn't as an all around track car.

 

I detest Automatics in a Vette, period.

Call me old school.

 

OK. Old school!

 

If it wasn't for this new auto in the c7z06 people like me wouldn't be able to enjoy the z06! I recently was in an accident and can no longer use my legs and bc of that i can only drive autos now and once i saw that that new z06 comes in auto i started saving and budgeting like crazy! I had a manual c5 since i started driving and i loved it and now drive a shift-able auto car and it is nice to use the auto when just touring and shift when you are are driving hard. I would have never said it before but now using it is so much nicer than manual.

 

Sorry to read about your injury. I'm glad you can once again buy the car that you can thoroughly enjoy. I'm glad they made something great available to more people.

 

Don't care how fast they are, or anything else. Nothing can change the fact that automatics are BORING.

 

Coming from a gt500 with 600 rwhp and a C6 Z06, both manuals, I have to say the C7 with the A6 is far from boring.

It is very responsive and is an absolute plast to drive.

I didn't even get the NPP or Z51, my Shelby was so loud, this is a pleasure.

Plus the auto is faster than the manual C7 and more consistent.
Just said that to **** you manual guys off, lol.

OOPS, wrong forum

but, automatics are still fun.

 

if you want to abuse a STREET car on the track the least thing you could do is install an oversized oil cooler. We do this all the time on GM trucks with aftermarket torque converters or if we go dune bashing, it works...