For a quarter-century, the halo car at Dodge was the Viper. What started out as a “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” shot at recreating the magic and the violence of the original AC/Shelby Cobra ended last year with the final run of hand-built, personalized coupes that are perfectly fine daily drivers that can be built into missiles. Again: a car that is plenty potent straight off of the showroom floor is that much better when it’s modified to accept over three times it’s original horsepower rating. 650 horsepower just not enough to keep the excitement going, especially when you have friends sporting 707 and 840 horsepower? Ok…how about 1,800 in a two-seater that seems to have minimal trouble planting the power on a half-mile run? All you need is two turbochargers and E-85 fuel. We can’t exactly say “nothing trick here” because those kinds of numbers means a whole lot of “trick” is going on under the hood, but the plates are real and yes, this thing eats pump E-85. That means that while your kid is ooh-ing and aah-ing over the massive wing and the canards and others are rolling their eyes, you’ll know that this silver monster could easily put a Bugatti right in it’s place without so much as a sweat in a race.
