New 8-speed 8l90 Corvette C7 Stingray automatic fails to surpass or even equal Porsche PDK transmission

To make it clear, there are cars that are fast and then there are cars that can be driven fast.  The age of dumbification  is certainly here and the newest Corvette is the best example of this trend.

The case in point, the nausea inducing ongoing bragging regarding the 8 speed slush box shifting faster than the PDK version of DTC transmission.  The key phrase here is THE TRANSMISSION SHIFTS GEARS FASTER, this is not the case of allowing the driver to select gears faster.  What does this mean?  To put it simply, the less input from the driver, the faster the car will go.  In other words, whoever sits behind the wheel is a driving equivalent of sperm donor and driving experience has been reduced to artificial insemination, with the fun part non-existent.

Now, bullshit like this is fine among grandpa and grandma crowds but what in essence amounts to discouraging improvements in driving skills renders the newest Corvette, equipped with automatic transmission the very last car anyone serious about sports cars and competitive driving should consider.

So what happens when someone actually tries to take control of the newest Corvette and attempts to shift the gears using the supplied manual paddles?

The car sucks, just like any other car equipped with a slush box.  Long time ago, Porsche tried this with their Tiptronic transmission that was quite awful to drive, especially in manual mode.  With time, Porsche wised up and these days, its PDK sets a new standard not in just fast driving but especially in driving EXPERIENCE.

So what is the problem with the conventional slush box in a sports car?  The presence of the torque converter and associated inefficiency and delay remain, no matter how small the diameter of the converter becomes, the losses and REACTION instead of ACTION are still there.  Is this an answer to DTC?  No effing way it is nor it ever will be.  A better mouse trap is still a mouse trap, no matter how much bullshit +Tadge Juechter spews out. 

Here is an article that describes exactly what happens: the lag time between selecting a gear with the paddle and the transmission complying.  Why DTC does not do this?  DTC is a take on MANUAL transmission, gear selection physically selects gear instead of merely sending a signal, big difference right there and certainly something that will never validate a Corvette with a slush box as a world class sports car.  Not that it really matters but the latest manual version, with its THREE OVERDRIVE gears is not that much behind in castrating the driving experience part.

Being the douchebag Juechter is, the part he selected to advertise as supposedly faster than PDK, WOT in AUTO mode.  Everything else is not just equal to PDK or other DTC transmissions, it is outright INFERIOR, including the former driving experience.  

The funny part is of course that in order to gain efficiency, weaker materials are used in the transmission, including aluminum where it should be steel and further reduction in diameter of torque converter, to reduce the rotational inertia, supplemented with even higher stall speed, make the latest porker called Z06 even heavier, the second transmission cooler had to be added while praying for the transmission not to overheat.  So while Juechter keeps bullshitting about the new transmission being lighter, it really is not due to the extra hardware it requires to keep it alive.  This is actually not a surprise, after all, that 99 pounds lighter frame already set the curse for Juechter's way of bullshit mistakenly called reasoning.

http://www.autoguide.com/manufacturer/chevrolet/2015-chevrolet-corvette-stingray-review-4080.html

There is no doubt that the usual Corvette enthusiasts will their panties in a bunch and this is unfortunate, delusion is not a healthy choice in life.