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Originally Posted by unhappymeal
Please read the earlier posts before you respond. The C7 Corvette program at its peak did 35,000 units per year. In total, it was <160,000 units for its 6-year run and the manual take rate program wide was 15% (source: The Corvette Program Lead Engineer).
For reference, BMW does around 150,000 units for the 3/4 series in a single year and they are dropping the stick because it's not profitable. Oh and BMW is using an off-the-shelf Getrag or ZF manual that is bolted to tonnes of other cars, not some one-off unique design.
There is not enough volume for a one-off manual to be profitable in the C8 program.
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You can't compare a bread and butter car like 3/4 series to a halo sports car. By that logic the C8/Corvette platform should never exist. Basically everything on a Corvette is bespoke to that platform. Try comparing it to other sports cars.
The previous gen corvettes used transaxles. That's an incredibly limited packaging option yet they still sold manuals through out the previous gens.
Almost all transmissions have the same guts by X,Y, or Z supplier. Only the casings or mounting points and ecu logic is different. The software is usually tuned in partnership between the transmission manufacturer and the vehicle manufacturer with the vehicle manufacturers taking the brunt of the work.
Business cases aren't the be all end all of production, this holds true especially with Sports cars/Halo cars and super cars.
If a manual was feasible for packaging or the performance target, you can bet your ass it would be there.
Edit: Also that 15% is for the Z06 only, if you look at overall production even for last year which was the shortest production number that jumps to about 28%. 2017 was about the same with 28%
https://www.corvettemuseum.org/wp-co...HWC-UPDATE.pdf
https://www.corvsport.com/wp-content...-End-Stats.pdf