General Motors continues to sell Corvette C7 Z06 with Z07 and A8 transmission in 2016-WHY?

When in November 2014, Road and Track received three Corvettes C7 Z06 for the purpose of comprehensive testing, +General Motors had a full confidence that the three very well known professional race drivers, Randy Pobst, Tony Milner and Andy Pilgrim would validate the unquestionable greatness of the newest Corvette flagship. 

Of course, what happened was nothing short of publicity disaster and complete embarrassment, setting the newest flagship on the permanent course of reliability problems and compounding overheating and heat soak issues that not are not only unresolved until this day but continue to multiply in both qualitative and quntitative ways, forcing +Tadge Juechter find a permanent solace under the corporate rock.

Although the overheating of the newest flagship received the usual GM treatment initially, several months afterwards, Juechter decided to feed the clueless Corvette masses with his typical bullshit that relies not on scientific or engineering explanations to calm the potential masses but rather on some lamest and ilogical excuses a car designer could find.

According to Juechter, at that time, the overheating issues were supposedly a direct fault of preproduction inadequate parts and this jewel:

The second car was an automatic. I believe it was being driven by Randy on the hottest day there, which was right around our design performance target of 86 degrees (more on that below). After multiple laps at speed, he came in with a hot warning message.
Although the car had been out on track all week, that was the first and only incident. In Corvette’s 60-year history, we have never put automatics on track for media, and never encouraged people interested in track usage to buy automatics.

Fair enough, clearly the flagship equipped with automatic transmission was an attempt to reach out for poser buyers NOT intending to track their cars, right? 

Now, the logical assumption would be to expect GM NOT TO OFFER the so called Z07 track option on the cars equipped with automatic transmission or at least disclose the limitations on the Chevrolet website and exclude the Z07 option from the purchase order for automatics, maybe offering visual gratification option for the posers instead? 

Well, nothing like this happened and as a matter of fact, the Chevrolet website continues to mislead and bait the gullible Corvette buyers to spend the extra money on an option that is offered on the car that according to his chief designer cannot be used on the track.

Considering this is the second of the flagship's production and with the overheating problems popping up everywhere the new flagship shows up, one would expect that GM would finally gain some integrity and clarify the situation.  Unfortunately, a quick look at the Chevrolet website clearly shows this is not the case at all.  A case of oversight?  Absolutely not!!!  A clear case of consumer and advertising FRAUD selling a product that cannot be used as advertised. 

And where is Tadge Juechter?  Busy fighting out with GM marketing department to protect the consumers?  Nah, this guy is busy coming up with more bullshit excuses, finger pointing and outright lies to keep the sales going.  A true shame that someone with absolutely no integrity leads the Corvette program, not surprising though.