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In daily drivers, an automatic is generally preferable. For more occasional use in a performance car, I will always generally prefer a manual at any age.

For me, it's just a historical preference for manuals that I equate with track performance; even though the performance edge has decisively shifted to autos/automated manuals. I hadn't realized how dramatic the shift has been toward the 8A, knowing the demographic and how many hold-outs there...

Of course, but I have fat fingers and typed 6M instead of 7M each time. LOL. I corrected it.:L Interesting. Good to know.:beer Agreed. I just think the C7.R in particular is preferable with the 7M, and I thought there would be a greater percentage of them ordered with it. They're...

I understand that, and I love the 8A. I thought it would be a more equitable ratio of manual/automatic with the C7.R, though. I have only seen one manual black car listed for sale. And with the new 10A coming, the 7M cars are going to drop further away in comparative outright performance...

I've been casually keeping track of manual (7M) versus automatic (8A) cars on ebay and a few other sites, and I'm seeing a huge disparity favoring the quantities of 8A cars over 7M cars. It seems to be at least 4:1 or more for automatics. I know we don't have official production numbers yet...

I understand your sentiments. The Ford GT is one of my personal all-time favorites; but regardless of final production numbers, it was not produced in-house like the ZR1/ZO6.

Still nothing beyond #1263 yet. Only 19 days 'til 2010 ZR1 production begins!

I added it a while back. His is #899 from Frank Parra Chev. in Irving, TX.

Incredible, Rob!!!! Great resource. You rock! CAC rocks!

Yes. Drag strip OR road course of any length or configuration. AND... top speed (204 for the CGT; 201 for the F40). AND... outbrakes them both (along with virtually everything else). CGT is close, though. I love BOTH those cars, but the ZR1 outperforms them in every instrumented test...

Actually, Jan is the one who refuted the alleged 'Ring run. When questioned, he indicated he was at another event stateside when the run was supposedly made. Vapor story. ;shrug Personally, I'm hoping for a sub-7:20 just to stir the pot with the Viper and GT-R guys! :cool

The subsequent run you're referring to was supposedly done by Jan Magnussen, not Heinricy. It was later confirmed to be only a "rumor". The 7:26 time is currently the official fastest ZR1 lap. EVO magazine has run the ZR1 in a group test, and their time will be published in the upcoming...

As of information available today, 07.01.09, the latest number ZR1 in transit is #1263 (for museum delivery). There may be a few later numbers that surface in the next few weeks, but not many. At the bash in April, there were to be a total of 1240 ZR1s for the final build-out. As of last...