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Originally Posted by olrocker
“No sign of a manual transmission offering” isn’t necessarily a confirmation verbatim of no manual transmission. The author is just explaining they didn’t see one.
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To be blunt, manuals have been a dying trend now for about 2 decades and it's only gotten worse the last 5-10 years. Throw in the fact that the car was planned to be as much a EV first, I would sooner believe they'd put a Hellcat motor in it.... before a manual.
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Originally Posted by 102SS
Pretty hard to justify investing in car that had plummeting sales since 2016.
If they could have sustained 50k a year a 7th gen would certainly be on the horizon.
Maybe another 7 year pause would renew interest again.
2023...... 23,678
2022...... 24,652
2021....... 21,893
2020....... 29,775
2019....... 48,265
2018....... 50,963
2017....... 67,940
2016....... 72,705
2015....... 77,502
2014 ........86,297
2013 ........80,294
2012....... 91,314
2011....... 88,249
2010 .......81,299
2009....... 61,648
Total .......906,474
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Well to start, 3 of those last 4 years were basically COVID, when you either couldn't get parts, paint, or a car in general. Hell, even in 2024 they ran into a combination of strikes and part issues.
So let's cut to the real issues then....
1.) There were a good portion of customers who literally hated that the 6th gen looked like the 5th gen.
2.) GM made literally no effort to sell the car via advertisement or discounts
3.) GM made no effort to bump HP to combat their competition while their competition bumped HP and offered more HP options.
4.) Car was simply over spec'd and over priced compared to stripper models for the Mustang/Challenger. Instead of offering the models like they did with the 5th gen, they chased too much money...
5.) GM cares way too much about the Corvette, not realizing they are pricing themselves out of market by a lot of normal people. This is going to cost them both customers and interest in other models as well.