No Manual ?

**cm_ls1** · #1 October 18th, 2007, 01:34 AM

I can't say im not dissapointed , but they say the auto is within a 10th of the manuals time!

i wonder what the reason for not supplying it , cant run AFM thus subject to gas guzzler ?

or differences in the conversion to lhd somehow ?

Quote:

No Manual-Transmission Pontiac G8 for 2008

Date posted: 10-17-2007

DETROIT — Want the scorching V8-powered Pontiac G8 GT sedan coming in the first quarter next year? GM's performance division already will let you spec out the 361-horsepower G8 just the way you'd like.

As long as you want an automatic transmission, that is.

Yep, you read that right: The G8's probably the best thing to happen to Pontiac since John DeLorean bent the rules to make the GTO, but the first models shipped to these shores from Australia will have just two pedals, like it or leave it.

Early adopters, it appears, will have to be satisfied with slushboxes — six-speeders with GM's Drive Shift Control manual-shift function, at least. But if you can hold off, we're betting a manual transmission for the G8 GT will be along later in 2008, but perhaps not until the '09 model year.

Right now, Pontiac's G8 site says the automatic is the "standard" and only transmission offered for the G8 GT. And a Pontiac spokesperson tells Inside Line, "What we've said — and which is still the case — is that the six-speed manual won't be available at launch."

So Pontiac will not mention a manual option for the V8-powered variant of the G8 rear-drive sport sedan. Further complicating the issue, press information disseminated earlier this fall by GM's Powertrain Division clearly indicates the '08 G8 GT can be fitted with a combination of the 6.0-liter V8 and a six-speed manual transmission — effectively the Corvette combo until the 'Vette got a standard 6.2-liter V8 for '08.

But a powertrain spokesman says that information is a mistake, flatly adding, "There is no manual option for 2008."

Self-shifters thinking they might get a manual gearbox with the base-model G8 and its 256-hp, 3.6-liter dual-cam V6 also are out of luck. The only available transmission is GM's 6T70 six-speed automatic — despite the fact that the same engine (with direct-injection fueling) already is teamed with a six-speed manual transmission for the Cadillac CTS.

What this means to you: It's unfortunate, perhaps, that true believers will have to wait for what many will insist is the ultimate G8. But we'll gamble GM plans to bring it here sooner than later.

No Manual-Transmission Pontiac G8 for 2008

**chiefpontiac** · #2 October 18th, 2007, 02:19 AM

Consider the source, Edmunds. The 2008 model year will be short, not startining until some time in 1st quarter and ending if on regular schedule like other vehicles at end of 2nd quarter. Basically July 1 ushers in production of 2009's

**cm_ls1** · #3 October 18th, 2007, 04:55 AM

ahhh ok , i was thinking start of 2009 , i forgot the model year starts half way through 08.

fjs · #4 October 18th, 2007, 02:56 PM

I was afraid of this... Looks like the wait is getting longer & longer...

bu01 · #5 December 11th, 2007, 11:52 PM

any other words on the M6