[USAFS197]

I think it's fantastic and long overdue, personally. The A10 will open up the 1LE market quite a bit in my opinion, especially to those of us who have issues that preclude us from owning manual transmission cars or those who simply prefer automatics. I love manual transmission cars and as I'm sure some of you remember, I had a 2018 1LE. I absolutely loved that car but, I felt that with an A10, it would be have been even better.

I fall into the group where my body really doesn't like utilizing a manual very much anymore (military vet) and I prefer auto/DCT transmissions now. I want both hands on the steering wheel when I'm engaged in High Performance Driving Events or the like.

My current car has the lowly and much maligned A8 transmission. While I haven't had the opportunity to take the car to a track just yet, I did take it to the Tail of the Dragon recently. Hitting 1.25+ G's through turns and focusing on your next turn while just keeping your hands on the steering wheel made me feel so focused on the handling dynamics and less on heel/toe/shifting. Granted, this wasn't a high speed closed course or anything but, it was exciting and fun nonetheless. Luckily for me, the 2019's got some goodies from the ZR1, to include some cooling and fueling bits. While the car will still overheat if pushed in a hot environment, it won't go into limp mode as easily as the older models--which is less to do with the transmission specifically and more to do with how GM split up cooling methods when the car is equipped with an automatic.

Anyhow, I think the A10 will make the SS 1LE a complete package, finally. Would it get me back into a Camaro? No. There's A10 ZL1's and ZL1 1LE's and I'm not in a Camaro, either. But, this will hopefully mean nothing but good things for the sales of the Camaro and it's performance variants. If I were in the market for a Camaro SS 1LE, I wouldn't even think twice between the two choices, I'd get the SS 1LE A10.