They should let it stream the content audio-only while moving. There are plenty of podcast-type YouTube channels that are perfectly entertaining with just sound.  Netflix, probably not so much though.

Ah, ok. I misunderstood what you wrote. And yes, I drive an EV as well, so I agree with what you’re saying.

No offense, but if you’re paying $6/gallon for gas, you’ve got bigger worries to address than hair-splitting Tesla’s specs. I’m in SoCal and it has barely touched $4 here, and that’s just at the “luxury” stations.

They probably have zero clue what they are, or give a two shits about them if the question is couched in terms of “What do you think of CVT’s?” But I bet they’d jump at the chance to say that they don’t like how [INSERT CVT-EQUIPPED MODEL] drives on the road.

At least that properly differentiate it from the Altima.

I hear ya man, and I don’t disagree with your points. But personally, if given the only two choices of clutch-by-wire manual or DCT, I’d still take the CBW for the greater involvement and activity it requires of the driver in the cockpit. That said, If GM took a page from aviation’s playbook in the way of artificial…

Exactly!  The liquidity of cash over free airfares or hotel nights adds value alone.  Plus, not everyone travels and even frequent travelers don’t travel all the time, but everyone uses money all the time.

I would proffer that the reason the take rate declined to ~15% in the C7's twilight years is because manual buyers are the most enthusiastic of the bunch and already purchased their C7's earlier in the production run, resulting in the earlier mid-20s rate. GM could expect to see similar take rates at the beginning of…

You and I are definitely on the same page. I mentioned in another post, my doubts that anyone at Chevy was talking about the soon-to-come 4+3 when the C4 launched with auto only for 1984.

In all seriousness, I certainly will do just that. However I don’t think we’d see its addition to the option sheet until the 2021 lineup, at best. Just to point out, this scenario is not at all unprecedented in the modern automotive world—it’s exactly what happened when BMW introduced the E60 M5.

Just to clarify, this isn’t a new thing for Corvette. This was available on the C7 as well (C6 too, I believe). I don’t really get why this is something desirable, or even worth doing at the cost. But a piece of me is glad that Chevy offers yet another way for their customers to personalize their cars.

Agreed.  I think I’m just going to move on to today’s requisite article involving some 30+ year old Jeep vehicle held together with bailing wire and sporks.

Um...not really—the stick just goes right there where the cup holder currently resides. Yes, gramps will have to hold his bottle of Ensure between his knees. The clutch solution is already sorted-out and essentially requires nothing more than a pedal bolted to the footwell—it’s clutch-by-wire: https://www.roadandtrack.…

Yes, because no automaker, especially GM, has ever misjudged the consumer market...ever.  Wow, you really are a contrarian fool. Isn’t there a bridge somewhere you’re supposed to be lurking under?

I don’t understand how this keeps getting forgotten. It was a prominent news feature in the automotive world when it was reported. GM has already solved the “problems” of drive/clutch-by-wire for their mid-engine application:

Nope, definitely not fine with it. The ~$75k I dropped on a manual C7 should be plenty of evidence, and I know some GM design execs whose ears I can bend. Further, there’s a portion of that 27% who will outright walk, myself included—zero interest in flappy paddles for street driving. They are leaving money on the…

Precisely my comment—they envision the potential eventuality that it’s used. At this point, and in the absence of any further info, I’ll give it better than a coin’s toss that we see a manual in this vehicle, going forward. GM didn’t go through all of the patent machinations as an exercise in automotive masturbation.

Counterpoint: If you sold the 1992 Maxima alongside the 2019 Maxima, albeit both with the current day’s tech, I’ll put bodily extremities on the line as to which body style would sell more units. I don’t think the same could’ve been said for your two example models in the mid-1960's era of the latter.

Rightly or wrongly, the term “Millennial” has colloquially come to mean anyone of college or immediate post-college age, despite the actual chronology of the Millennial and Gen Z cohorts.

Not saying I agree with it, just saying it’s a thing. ;-)

It is indeed part of the package, but I understood there to be a delete override option. If not, a wing delete is just a reasonable body shop away ;-)