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The DCT costs would have been spread across GM in all suitable cars, not hanging strictly on Corvette. You can figure the V-Cads, Camaro, Corvette, possibly SS. Once you have it you could put it in your entry level sporting stuff as well.
Still none of that matters because back when they were clamoring for it was during the bailout and the money simply wasn't there. They had no choice but to work with what they had. It would seem that the development of one in the future is unlikely to me because they are winning the war with ad copy that gets swallowed hook, line, and sinker by average consumers who don't even know that they can claim anything they want for transmission performance since no standard exists.
Something to think about is that DCTs already can shift faster than they do but are held back in programming. There are finite limits in place for potential shift speeds based on materials technology as it exists today, in other words there is no possible way with current technology to make a cost effective drive line that can hold up long term under the shift speeds that DCTs could shift if OEMs wanted them to right now. This driveline durability limit is the actual limits of shift speed today for automatics as well, they just haven't got there yet.
Some of you are missing the best thing about DCTs though, they don't feel like an automatic when you drive them. They feel like what they are, a bucket full of gears. For sporting cars they are much more fun IMO and that opinion is shared by everyone I know in the real world that has experienced both. People get hung up on numbers and forget we drive these things for a reason, to have fun.
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