Aston, Chevy, and Porsche are making 7 speed manuals now. Whenever

>>17674537
I HAVE A NEED FOR SPEED

FIVE SPEEDS JUST WON'T CUT IT, KEK

Staying in the power band for more of the Rev range. Not that this is a problem in the Corvette, so I don't really understand why Chevy is doing it. In lower displacement engines it helps though.

Something something fuel economy

>>17674537
Fuel economy tests.
You can keep the engine in its most efficient RPM range better with more ratios available.

>>17674681
In the vette it's for fuel economy
7th is a significant overdrive that lets it cruise at like 1k rpm
Same deal in the GT350 but for 6th in that car

4 overdrive gears for the Vette so you can cruise at 1000rpm

>>17674681
What kind of car has such a small powerband that it needs 7 speeds? You're just spending more time shifting, in which you make exactly zero power.

>>17674735
If you were using a non-meme transmission you wouldn't have that problem

2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th seem pretty hard to get to. you can't just shove the shifter all the way left for low gears and all the way right for high hears like a five or (good) six speed

>>17674735
The kind of car that has the torque to skip gears. In stock vettes you get forced to shift from 1st to 4th by a signal on the dash if you're in first gear too long, then you can skip from 4th to 6th. You shift less if anything and have more options for skipping.

As a factory trained college educated BMW master tech, it's both, performance (better use of power band) which is more efficient, thus fuel economy.
Keep in mind all newer Auto technology generally get their start on the track. In my opinion, F1 being the Pinnacle in over engineering, & break throughs which is what we see.

In all of them 7th is a fuel economy gear. the dog leg pattern in the aston gives you an up down shift pattern for 2 to 3 which are the traditional track gears

>>17674537
>Whenever I watch videos of people tracking these cars, they miss gears multiple times.
> What is the point of 7 speeds?

You answered your own question, dummy.

More gears makes it okay to miss a gear sometimes.

>>17674735
M8. More gears is always good. In the vette's case it's more overdrives for mpgs.