A change to double clutch for the C7 Corvettes

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Friday slid, during the communication of the new document of understanding between GM and mayoralties, is begins to you to emerge some details on the plans of the Americans for the next quinquennium, between which one new distribution of the production of single parts in several the plants.

More interesting is but how much is learned on the future of the Corvettes: in a line of the document it is written explicitly that in the plant of Toledo, Ohio, specialized in the realization of the transmission organs will come constructed just for supercar one new generation of DCT (dual clutch transmission), to begin from 2012. This is a good news that regards gives near also Europe, where finally the Corvettes will be able to count on a transmission similar to the DSG, that it could carry new customers who do not love the characteristics of the manual change.

In the systems of Toledo and Baltimora moreover, they will come produced the transmissions for the hybrid vehicles of second generation, beginning from 2011. A famous one hurting regards instead the factory of Livonia, Michigan, where today they are born the V8 Northstar that equips the Cadillac: these motors will go in pension between three years, and when this happens, the plant of Livonia will close the clappers, in the within of the rationalization of the great sick colossus, and the new production of the V8 will come entrusted to the system of Tonawanda, in the state of New York.

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