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Originally Posted by F14CRAZY
I respectfully want to argue against your 3%...I'm confident that's more in the Corvette, Cobalt SS, Solstice, Sky...people that buy performance vehicles want manuals
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3% is an average that I read some place (maybe Car and Driver?). Sure, performance vehicles sell more, non-performance vehicles sell less. But non-performance vehicles sell in much higher numbers than performance ones. That's why they call it an average.
It might have been an average across all vehicles? But the point of the 3% was that very, very few people buy manual transmissions. That's why I'm guessing GM isn't that motivated in putting one in the G8 GT. I'm sure they know the real numbers.
People on the truck boards complain that GM doesn't sell a half-ton crew cab with a 6.5' bed. They think it's the #1 problem with GM trucks. But GM did sell them a few years back, and nobody bought them. Nobody buys them, GM doesn't make them. Simple supply and demand.