First thought: eerily similar to the Fisker Karma. (let’s bow our heads in sadness they didn’t make it)

Well I think we can agree that asking ZF to build a manual based on an existing trans is much much much cheaper than the DCT Tremec has developed.  I doubt it would be a deal killer.  Manuals are pretty cheap to design, all the hard work is done.  DCTs and new 8-10speed autos are not.

Torch did you find an old stash of quaaludes from 1986?

It’s common knowledge that the auto ins. industry is flooded with providers and has razor thin margins.

Not until the next re-design, at the earliest, and that probably won’t take place until 2019 or later. The new JL wrangler is rock solid, is only in its 2nd yr of production, and is selling like hotcakes. It’ll last a while.

The Wrangler is still new. It’s not changing soon.

The C7 is a killer car which history will look back on favorably, IMHO.

~50 people/yr are killed by subway trains each year in NYC alone.  All transportation has risks.

EVs hardly use their brakes, especially in town, given the extreme effectiveness of regenerative braking. My friend goes weeks without using mechanical braking on his model 3.

Almost all OEM supercharger units use an intercooler between supercharger and intake runners.

So if it’s a health issue, (CO2 and particulates), they’ll lift the ban when their fleet converts to EV?

Benefits of a turbo system are packaging (hot v) but also when it shits the bed you’re less likely to be dumping metal bits into the engine.

He didn’t word it real well, but his point stands. If you fed that engine the same boost from an external source in the next room over from the dyno room, that engine makes 855 at the crank. He’s just trying to illustrate it’s built for producing 855 (injectors, airflow, exhaust, rods, etc) but that huffer accounts…

But.....FOMOCO would need to feet air filter boxes in there too, my man.

Came here to post this.  Sooo many people think turbos are utilizing “free” energy.  They’re not understanding that increased backpressure creates parasitic losses, they just happen to be less than most superchargers so it’s not as impactful.

Jeeps haven’t been redesigned since the 1940s.

You may have heard of hellcats, demons, redeyes, scat packs, and hemis.

GT3 has 500hp, it has a manual.  ZF brand, IIRC

Porche gets around this because they route shifter over the top of the engine to the transmission. But Porche uses a straight 6 lying flat, whereas this Corvette is going to run a fat v8.

Couldn’t they reach out to ZF or getrag and have them start with an existing manual transaxle unit for the basis of the new design, saving some R&D costs?