Specifically, Crosbie says 23 percent of C7 Corvettes were sold with a manual. That's actually well above the U.S. average of just 1.1 percent for all cars in 2019, but it was hard for Corvette engineers to justify adding a manual option when the vast majority of buyers don't want it.

Do Corvettes have stick shift?

Luckily, you can still buy a new 2019 Corvette with a manual transmission. ... A quick nationwide search on Car Gurus found 1,991 new 2019 Corvettes for sale, but only 259 with a manual transmission. And just 18 of those stick-shift Corvettes were the high-performance Z06 model.

When did corvette stop using manual transmission?

Which means the last C7-gen Corvette that left the production line on November 14 was likely the last manual-transmission Corvette that will ever be made. There are still some great cars available with manual transmissions, but the list keeps getting smaller every year.