We know that the all-new Corvette C7, which will be unveiled on January 13, 2013 while cradling GM’s all-new LT1 smallblock V8, will be a testament to the latest and greatest technology from General Motors while offering an entirely new driving experience. We’ve been fortunate to discover a few details about the next-gen Vette, such as certain interior and exterior design elements. What’s more, we also recently found out that the seventh-gen Corvette will sport the following three features as sent to GM Authority:
Engine Sound Management (ESM)
The setting, accessed through the C7’s touchscreen in the center stack, will allow the driver to set the note of the engine as heard in the cabin. The settings consist of Auto, Stealth, City, Tour, Sport, Track, and Off.
While the features are definitely intriguing, we hope the sound isn’t the result of a simulated reproduction piped through the car’s speakers. Because that would be fake… and not cool.
Active Rev Match (ARM)
This one might be the coolest feature we’ve heard about yet: only accessible on Corvettes equipped with a manual transmission, ARM assists the driver to shift smoother by matching the engine speed to the next selected gear.
ARM works by monitoring the operation of the shift level and the clutch, and adjusts engine speed to match a calibrated value.
- On downshifts, ARM will increase engine speed before the clutch is engaged
- On upshifts, ARM will decrease engine speed before the clutch is engaged
The rev match is maintained for a brief period between shifts and is deactivated if the shift is not completed, allowing engine speed to return to idle.
We can see this being a huge help to most drivers, but hope there’s a setting to turn off the feature for the purists.
Performance Data Recorder (PDR)
It would seem that the Performance Data Recorder will be an optional feature on the C7. If equipped, PDR will be accessible via an icon on the Vette’s touchscreen. Upon being launched, PDR records audio, video, and vehicle data that’s stored on an SD Card, and is subsequently accessible by the driver either inside the vehicle or on a computer.
Which one of these features are you looking forward to using the most? The comments section is at your behest.
Comments
Absolutely none of them. I still would prefer an AWD setup, a DCT without a torque converter and a twin-turbocharged, 4-valve, small V8 w/variable valve timing.
I agree with all except the 4v V8.
Why would GM want a taller, wider, heavier, costlier block that only offers negligable gains over the Gen V?
A different valvetrain is not as beneficial as it seems. It the case of the Corvette, it would make it worse.
Perhaps you may be more interested in the Nissan GTR?
Gee, I was down at VIR a couple months back watching that old pushrod V-8 torch the Porsche, Ferrari, and Bimmer to win the 2012 ALMS GT championship. Why add all the complexity? If it ain’t broke…
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That ESM does sound interesting but I wonder how they are going to accomplish it. Honestly, how can you change the sound in the cabin without changing the set up of the engine? That one does not make sense to me.
The ARM had better have an OFF setting or I am going to through a fit like a two year old. ;^)
The PDR definitely sounds like something those of us who are constantly tinkering with engine might like to have. I would beat taking it to the Dyno all the time! It would be even better if it was something we could buy and install on the older cars.
Neat features, nice interior. Hideous exterior design (now we know where the Aztek design team went!). No sale. I will be keeping my C6 Z06 for a long time to come.
ESM: Garbage. Do we see Ferrari, Porsche, or Lamborghini with any of that mockery?
ARM: Okay…if you must…
PDR: Okay…fair enough. I can work with this.
The M5, unfortunately, pumps (fake) engine sound into the cabin… Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Porsche will probably follow. 🙁
NO! Seriously?! That is seriously messed up. Sooo uncool. Just open the damned window already if you need to hear it.
Porsche has this “sound tube” that runs through the interior so you hear the engine better, and it can be turned off like the new Vette’s ESM. Besides, what is wrong with this feature? It just makes the driving experience that much more interesting.
@wisdom seeker That Porsche implementation is the right way to do it.. what I personally fear the most, though, is that the sound won’t come from an actual sound tube in the engine bay, but rather a sound coming from the speakers. If this isn’t the case, everything is great 🙂
Yes, it would be terribly cheesy if it were to come from the speakers and not the engine, I don’t see how hard it would be to just have a small tube from the engine bay running through the cabin to make it sound a little louder, and have a button allowing the chosen amount of sound in. Having the speakers do the work and not the engine would be embarrassing!
I would be completely on board with this idea! However, I have the same fear Alex does. =/ Please, Gm, do it right!!
Also, if it does go through the speakers, will the sound dim when you come to a stop and get louder at speed like my current system does? That is one feature of the stock stereo I have always kinda liked. But for engine sound, that would not be so cool.
@VetteGyrl I’m sure the speakers/audio system will, in fact, have the ability to actively regulate sound by speed and cabin noise.
We’ll find out about the ESM soon enough 🙂
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They sound like nice features.. ASM I will have to see how that works through video or in real life… The other 2 seem quite nice for the performance guru.. It seems like a gran turismo coming to real life which is going to be a nice feature… It may be so-so for the casual, but for the hardcore I see it being a better fit… I would think ARM would be a turn on turn off feature like turning in the radio or something.. Can’t wait to see the reveal hear in a couple of weeks…
Just curious why do people want AWD in the Corvette? Besides 0-60 times, what does it do better that RWD doesn’t do.. You might jave great traction, but on the track RWD is beast.. I understand that a 4000lb car the GTR can get up 60 at around 2.9 seconds with a 5 ft roll.. But your tearing your transmission up everytime you use launch control.. I would stick with RWD.. AWD is good, but I wouldn’t want it in the Vette.. It’s lighter and it will be more driver focused instead of AWD.. Just my opinion..
In reading about the development of the C7, the idea of a mid-engine was
tossed around ( sigh…once again for about the 5th time… ) until the cost
issue was raised. So it looks like my children and maybe grandchildren
will never see the mid-engine ‘Vette we’ve all longed for – for forever.
The reason I say never is – The Tesla Roadster and Model S show us
the way into the future. Who wants a V-8 lump when an electric motor
with one moving part can blow away all that complex 19th century
explode-and-bang technology? I believe the C8 will have a flat
battery pack ( “skateboard” ) underbelly and an electric motor
and inverter between the rear wheels. Look at the Model S – it’s
so clever and effective it hurts! 100% torque at 0 rpm – INTENSE!
You mean a rear-mid engined Corvette; the near endless revaluations GM does every few years when they look at updating the car. The Corvette has been front mid-engined since the C3.
Tesla uses a completely different engine (obviously) that I personally don’t *ever* want to see on my Vette! Electric engines always have 100% torque at 0 if I remember correctly but only because they are electric. You can never get that out of the amazing, throaty goodness of a V8. And that’s the way I for one like it! =)
Just to much junk thrown in. I as well as others will be keeping their late model Vettes along time!
Dude, ever look at all the features that come with a VCR or DVD player? You don’t have to use them! I wouldn’t make a decision to NOT buy something because it had too many features. The operating system on this computer I’m on has hundreds of features I’ll never use.
ESM: Isn’t this kind of the point of the current dual mode exhaust? If there were no point to it, why have dual mode and why do the aftermarket exhaust guys offer so many different sound “recipes”?
ARM: I don’t see much point of ARM for the street, but maybe the track guys dig it.
PDR: Isn’t this kind of what you currently get with OnStar?
I’ve got a 2009 coupe and love it to death, but will definitely give Charlie 7 a look.
the corvette engine sound management is probably Bose active sound management “noise canceling” cutting some of the frequency out! well i hope that’s what it is and not digital mp3 recording…. or else it would be , not only cheesy but ridicule! 😉
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