Some good news from Detroit today as Chrysler officially announced that the Viper will be back and it will be manufactured in the same Detroit plant as the previous models were. The plant will be reopened and about 150 people will be hired to stick, weld, glue, and bolt the cars together. Interestingly the Viper will no longer be a “Dodge Viper” but rather an “SRT Viper”. This is in much the same way that the Dodge trucks are now “Ram” trucks. Whatevs.
There is speculation that the car will use some technology borrowed from other high performance Fiat owned properties like Ferrari or Maserati, which would continue something that lots of people don’t really know about the Viper. The car has had “some” Italian in it since the beginning. That mighty V10 engine? It was developed with help from Lamborghini, which Chrysler owned at the time. Ah, remember the days when American companies owned stuff instead of being owned themselves? Good times…good times.
No sketches or renderings of the next-gen Viper were revealed at the press conference today, so we’ll be lying in wait for those, but it is a good thing when companies are back on their feet enough to make the cool shit that tree hugging weiners hate again. As wonky as things still are these days, this is a good sign.
LINK: Viper is coming back…just not as a Dodge
without at least a 72 degree normalized v10 engine…they are still digging a hole. the only babble defending is the money bubble that eventually bursts to lack of true balance. oh wait..thats every engine today, 99% of every carmaker. have fun kids.. I’ll narrate from over yonder.
When will they make it handle like a super car should? Power is one thing but the thing has to turn as well
The thing does turn, that’s why it kicks ass in every racing series it competes in. Just because it’s not full of electric nannies to turn a prius driver into AJ Foyt, doesn’t mean it can’t handle. A good example of that is Top Gear US. The entire first, and most of the second season, the Viper held the fastest lap time with the same driver. The only car to beat it was Tanner’s rally prepped $500K Focus. It kicked all those other ‘better handling’ cars’ asses.
It will also have a V10, not sure on the angle, but why would they change it?
I hope they just shrink the car some and just put a hemi in it with a blower. Kind of like the ZR1 Vette.