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Originally Posted by Martinjlm
Different companies, different vehicles, different architectures. Porsche took the MT out of an existing platform that had been using MT for years. Putting it back in was really simple.
GM designed a vehicle with the intent that it would never need nor accommodate an MT. Deciding after the fact to put one in is non-trivial.
Quoted again, just because....
Executive chief engineer Tadge Juechter told Car and Driver that part of the reason is the desire to not breach the mid-engine C8's central tunnel: "That tunnel is the backbone of the car, and if you break the backbone, you lose a lot of structural efficiency. With a shifter, you have to have a big hole in the tunnel for the linkage to go through."
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Why do think a manual trans needs a linkage? Electrical actuation is common place and greatly simplifies a manual trans.