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I do mostly the commuting to work in the Aurora, similar drive to yours Aurora - so far not had chance to drive the ZR-1 far enough to tell. I was working on the basis of the govt figures which shows both having combined rating of 20mpg.
I understand your dislike now Jeff. I assumed it was a clutch based affair like the European semi-autos I've seen - might as well have a regular auto in that case.
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I agree though that GM should look into some of these more modern semi-manual trannies like the dual clutch stuff, etc. I don't think GM manufactures any (certainly not many) manual trannies, so it wouldn't be a case of them developing anything, rather of them buying it. I seem to recall stuff like the DSG VW/Audi uses can't handle a lot of power? They don't use it on any V8s or bigger I don't believe. If they had gone with something like the F1-style tranny Ferrari uses in lieu of the 6L80, I suspect many Cadillac owners would be pissed off. The 6-speed auto is also used in the STS-V and XLR-V. Those auto-manual things are reportedly not at all smooth for everyday driving. They are purely a performance item with a rather stiff trade-off. In fact, Maserati is now introducing a traditional automatic tranny on their Quattroporte due to the roughness of the Cambiocorsa (paddle-shift automatic clutch like Ferrari) transmission.
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I'm sorry for this but If GM still made the LT5 we would still be able to get parts for it......that work!
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