Chevrolet Has Received 5,600 Orders For 7-Speed Manual 2015 Corvette Z06 Coupes So Far
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When one Illinois Chevrolet dealership was selling their first 2015 Corvette Z06 before it had even arrived, they revealed that the first run of Z06s would all be 7-speed manual coupes, with Convertible and eight-speed variants becoming available further down the line. This limited amount of choice clearly hasn’t discouraged buyers though. Yesterday in an announcement made at the Midwest Automotive Media Association’s Fall Rally, Corvette chief engineer Tadge Juechter revealed they had already received over 5,600 orders for the car.
That’s a lot of orders in a short amount of time. Historically the take rate for automatic transmission Corvettes has been higher than for manual cars, so clearly demand for the high performance ‘Vette will be strong in the first model year. Additionally, with General Motors new quick shifting eight-speed transmission on offer, some buyers who previously would have bought a car with three pedals may be holding out for the automatic.
Orders of the standard C7 Corvette were backed up six months when the flood gates opened for the car last October and the Bowling Green plant has been pumping out Stingrays as fast as they can while still maintaining a certain level of quality control ever since. It’s safe to say then that if you were planning on ordering a 2015 C7 Z06, you’ll have to wait patiently into next year. By the way, that marked up Z06 order form is still up on eBay, but now its been overvalued even more to $106,985.00.
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It’s just that now the SS should have the Z06 to keep up with the charger hellcat now…. I mean 2.9 sec that’s about the same as this z06
Yeah. That Charger Hellcat is one radically amazing American-made sedan. I’m hearing that because the Charger is more aerodynamic, it’s able to achieve higher speeds than the even the slightly lighter Challenger! For Chrysler to get a 0-60 time of 2.9 seconds and 1/4 mile time of 10.7 seconds is beyond incredible! Chrysler’s 6.2L is said to be underrated as well, according to a recent dyno test! To some, this actually upstages the new Z06. But until official test numbers are revealed and achieved, we can only wait and see.
In regards to the take rate of the manual Z06, this is quite amazing!!! Looks like I was wrong in my previous assumption the automatic would trounce the manual.
Those times for the Charger Hellcat are with street legal drag radials which are not the stock tires!
This car will be amazing, I have a ’14 Z51 with 460HP that drives fantastic, I cannot even imagine what 190 extra HP will do for this platform!
I cannot wait for drive test results against the foreign competition that costs 2 to 4X the cost of the Z06.
how do you drive a seven speed around town ?
are the top 3 gears for hiway ?
just curious.
I just ordered chevy ss with tremec 6060 6 speed and wonder how that will work, thinking 6 gears was already plenty !!??
“Orders for the z06” numbers are a little misleading since you can’t preorder them if you wanted to. They are selling fast however. My local dealer got one in and it sold before they were able to put it on the showroom floor. My z51 is awesome but seeing that z06 up close, well it’s just even more agressive and now I must have one.