as well they should i want a auto camaro 6 spd.

as well they should i want a auto camaro 6 spd.

mercedes has a 7 speed already and Lexus an 8 speed, too late again GM

And it’s GM’s fault for not trying to play their game and stuffing as many gears into a tranny as possible? GM hatred spreads like a plague, doesn’t it?

Good job for them (for now) for slowly going back to RWD.

wtf would you want an auto camaro 6 spd? worst idea. but props to gm for a tranny for luxury rwd sedans.

haha finally GM discovers the world of 6 speeds.

SHouldn’t GM be leading with technology like it used to? GM will be much better when people stop making excuses for it or criticising the people who dare to suggest that GM might possibly be better than it is. Its not GM bashing, Fords are dire also, its just that this article is about a GM transmission

automatic is only understandable if you lost your left leg. other then that, if you dont like a clutch, you dont like driving.

Why they just dont buy it from ZF, it would be cheaper, not to mention disputable american engineering….

OOOO, a 6-Speed automatic! I’m so amazed. No, wait not amazed. What’s the right word? Saddened; that’s it. Instead of buying DSG (dual-clutch) transmissions from Borg Warner (an American company), which is the best automatic transmission in the world, they go ahead and build their own transmissions. Brilliant! Now instead of diverting that money into making actual components manufactured by GM better, they are simply going to invest it in something they don’t need to invest. Gee, what a great use of money…I still can’t figure out why they were downgraded to junk bond status…

Jon.

“GM hatred spreads like a plague, doesn’t it?”
It sure does.
Where’s the rwd Toyota’s? Oh thats right no Toyota car has rear wheel drive. Honda has 1 rwd car. But lets rip GM. Forget that GM’s hybrids save more fuel THAN all Toyota, Honda, Ford hybrids combined. (search GM hybrid bus).
A six speed automatic is more than enough. 7 and 8 is just overkill.

What’s so special about rear wheel drive anyway. It aint gonna save GM, Ford Chrysler et al if the product is rubbish

#11, look at what the Magnum, 300, and Charger have done for Chrysler.

One hit wonders I’m afraid. How is Chrysler ever going to follow them up. You can only do heritage design once. ANd Chrysler happened to have an old mercedes platform lying around that they could use

Well, Scotty sure has a point, IMHO. Unless you’re disabled and can’t operate a clutch, there’s simply no excuse to choose a craptomatic over a manual.

IMO rear wheel drive is complete bull****. It handles like crap in bad weather and attacts very few EVERYDAY customers. WHERE IS THE 6-SPEED AUTO FOR FWD!!!!!!!!!

Isn’t a six speed auto a bit too sophisticated for a Camaro? Pushrod motor, live rearend and a four speed auto thank you very much.

OOps, it’s 2006… I’ll see you guys later. I have a meeting with my local BMW dealer.

wow… people cant handle good news coming from gm…

Borg-Warner doesn’t make DSG transmissions. BW supplies the wet-clutch DuelTronic technology component of the DSG transmission. Other companies still have to assemble the whole transmission.

Who really cares how many gears it has? 6 is good. The point is to get the job done.
If you want pure numbers, 8-speed is crap.
Here’s 18-speed.
http://www.ttcautomotive.com/English/products/PS13.asp

These 6-speeds are slowly being deployed into Cadillacs;
while Toyota puts 4-, uh, 6-2, er, 6-speeds on the Camry.

I heard the FWD G6 is getting a 6 speed auto so thats a nice step in the right dirrection.

A basic volkswagen golf comes with a 6 speed in Europe, whats the big deal?

M have you actually bought a G6 or do you just work in the plant that makes it? I bet a Camry V6 would work so much better in a silky smooth lexusy kind of way than a G6

Now dump the weazing pushrod from the midsize vehicle lineup and GM will have caught up to the competiton

From 1995.

#10, Jon, wow you were able to know the solution just by reading this article. Only if the world as simple as your world. There are 10000 variables involved in decision making.

To think that you alone outsmart a whole organization is a bit strange.

Trust me, humans don’t make decisions based on nothing. It’s a matter of deciding where to compromise. And unless you have a bird-eye view of the whole GM org, then you can never have find out why they realy made this decision.

Joe,

Seeing as GM’s decisions tend to be wrong, how can you possibly tell me they are right?

Jon.

Jon, If you worked at GM, I bet with all the factors considered, you are most probably going to end up making the same decision, even if you know its wrong.

This is how life is in a mamoth corp. Everyone trying to make one decision. I dont think the problem is in the minds. Its in the actual shape of GM as a huge corp who ruled the market for sometime and was able to afford the large work force. But when its share went down, its income reduced but it still consumed the same amount.

That’s why you see GM downsizing and closing down plants. And thank the UAW where a guy mopping the floor gets paid 70K/year and some even over 100K.

^^^ SOOOOO many dumbasses in this thread. ^^^^^

Mike which GM division do you mop the floor for? I’m with Chevy and its a sign of progress that 94% of all employees can now read.

I wasn’t referring to the UAW comment. hell, if I mopped the floow for the UAW I would make 10 times what I do now.

I was referring to the other bashers complaining that GM is investing money into better products.

Hey guess what. BMW is engineering a manual transmission for the M5 specifically for the US market

Of course Mike thinks that any kind of ‘investment’ by GM is a positive thing, as if a 6-speed transmission built by the same people that came out with wonderful cars like the Pontiac Aztec are going to be able to build a world-class transmission. VW buys transmissions from Borg Warner and a lot of other automakers buy transmissions from ZF, but I guess they have no idea what they are doing, right?

But, then again he also thinks that the XLR is just as good as an SL…so what does that tell you?

Jon.

M5,

Where did you read this?

Jon.

Jon, In the July Issue of Car Magazine, out today in the UK. Says the option isn’t scheduled for Europe

That’s really odd. You would think they would also make the manual available in Europe. Anything’s an improvement to the ultra-complicated SMG II gearbox. Its better to just have a 6-Speed and control how fast you want to shift the car on-the-fly.

Jon.

Do you think that a company would spend $170 million without using the same simlpe logic some of you here used to conclude its a bad idea?

Yes, Joe I would. And again this is based on the countless other bad decisions. This looks more like a way to spend money to keep the UAW happy than actually improving GM products.

Jon.