SSsedanM6

It's legit.
I have more specifics that I'm dying to post (# of gears, specs, order details, etc), but posting anything more will potentially expose my source.
My personal and professional relationships are obviously more valuable to me than my rep on an internet forum.
Take it or leave, it's true regardless.

elegant

Sorrowfully, that is what I am also hearing. While I am excited for all the automatic trans lovers, there remains the 23% of us who love/drive Corvette manuals.

Going to be a hard choice for some of us diehards, buying a then discounted, new ZR1 or getting our first manual trans vehicle ever (right now, we are/have been 53 for 53 manuals). Guessing that many of us 23%’rs will make the change to the ME with its only DCT.

SSsedanM6

To the people PMing me:

I probably already shared too much info., so please don't ask for any more.
The info was unsolicited, and my source only brought it up because they know I always have new Corvettes.
Frankly, I don't think my source realized how significant the info was that they shared with me.

I only posted it because I know many of you are dying to know what trans will be in the mid-engine car, as much as I was.

ByByBMW

Saying 30K+ ordered may already have said to much.

Nobull

30K+ Units? If this is correct can one assume that the ME will be priced
to be competitive with the current corvette pricing? To me it is apparent that this number of preordered transmissions would not be appropriate for a low volume very high priced (over $100K) car. What say you forum members?

NY09C6

If true I firmly believe the car will have a starting price right around 90k at the low end. This is pretty much the end of your previous audience for this car.

SSsedanM6

I was thinking the same thing, that's why I rounded it off low. The exact number is higher.

ByByBMW

I know nothing of large scale manufacturing or their finances. So that being said, I hope you are wrong.
Being retired and no longer making money, I would be priced out of the market.
But it also means I won't have to sell my current play cars either.

rcooper

This could be one of 2 things...first, they are ordering for several years production, that would be a higher price point car. Second is that they are ordering for a lower price car and starting with 30k+ will get them started as sales would be brisk if it is in the 60k price as an entry level.Either way, there will be a segment that will be PO'ed as there is no manual for the car.
One has to wonder if all the info that is showing up is staged or if there are those who just really don't care about their future employment....I am going with staged.

NY09C6

Someone joins the forum a month ago and posts no details other than trust me. It's BS.

OnPoint

He's been around a while. Previously banned a few times.

He's just back under a new but similar handle.

ByByBMW

And you know this how?

OnPoint

One of his previous handles he was bounced under was 16sedanSS

Just do a search under that name looking for DCT transmission and you'll find all same opinions regarding Corvette needing to go to them, same style of language, posts etc.

So he has a history here. That said, what he posted in this thread may be true. Time will tell.

ByByBMW

That isn't proof sorry.

OnPoint

You're free to conclude what you want.

CaliforniaJack

Let's say a nice C7 sells for $70k. What does a C8 have that's an added cost? The engine is moved back in the frame which saves the cost of a driveshaft. Both cars have one engine and one trans. It's the same parts count. If the car is manufactured on the same assembly line, the labor cost should be equivalent. At an equivalent volume of production, the cost to manufacture should not add more than a few grand. It all depends on how fast GM wants to recover it's development costs.

elegant

36,000 units over say a six year run is not a lot of units per year.

f-16pilotTX

Boiler_81

Parts in the auto industry aren't ordered in large batches a year in advance. At this point, the suppliers will have tooling volumes. They and their sub suppliers have to be prepared to support the tooled volume on a x units per unit time frame basis. 30+k may be an annual projected volume but there are certainly not 30k+ transmissions on order.

JoesC5

Blanket orders are very common in manufacturing.