View Poll Results: Do you like it ? >(multiple choice)
I love `it & want one 4-$ure!!!
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60.00%
I don't like it
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I'd rather have a 2015 Sting Ray Z06
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50.00%
It's just a dream for me, so I'll take them both
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20.00%
I'm going out & get a lotto ticket 4-Real (lol)
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Dodge Announces 2015 Viper Pricing: Cash Money on the (Very Long) Hood
December 1, 2014 at 4:09 pm by Davey G. Johnson
Being the Dodge Viper has gotta be a bit like life as a fading actor. Younger, hungrier (though less thirsty) whippersnappers are willing to do the same work for less. You cut your asking rate, but the young ones keep coming. Witness the monstrous Corvette Z06, which just posted the highest lateral grip number and the shortest stopping distance we’ve ever recorded from a production vehicle. “Sure,” the Dodge loyalist counters. “But every Biff, Sven, and Gerald has a damn Corvette.”
To which we reply, “True enough, Steve-Dave. But like, 1.19 on the skidpad and a 70-0 in 128 feet.”
“Sure man, I read your review. That car you tested had the Z07 package and cost $97,595. That’s over the new Viper GT’s $94,995 starting price, and within four grand of the $101,995 TA 2.0.”
Steve-Dave kinda has us there. The track-focused T/A really is a pretty neat thing. But here’s the problem, our Z06 was all-in, including Chevy’s destination charge. Unlike our snake-charming pal, we always include destination and gas-guzzler tax, if such a fee is applicable. And the latter sure is applicable to the Viper—and adds $2100. Tack on Dodge’s rather onerous $1995 destination charge (even the notorious gougers in Zuffenhausen only have the stones to bill you $995 for GT3 delivery) and you’re looking at $99,090 for the GT and $106,090 for the TA, leaving only the base Viper, at $89,090, as the lone snake cheaper than our Zed Aught Six. And a base Z06, we might remind you, starts at $78,995.
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December 1, 2014 at 4:09 pm by Davey G. Johnson
Being the Dodge Viper has gotta be a bit like life as a fading actor. Younger, hungrier (though less thirsty) whippersnappers are willing to do the same work for less. You cut your asking rate, but the young ones keep coming. Witness the monstrous Corvette Z06, which just posted the highest lateral grip number and the shortest stopping distance we’ve ever recorded from a production vehicle. “Sure,” the Dodge loyalist counters. “But every Biff, Sven, and Gerald has a damn Corvette.”
To which we reply, “True enough, Steve-Dave. But like, 1.19 on the skidpad and a 70-0 in 128 feet.”
“Sure man, I read your review. That car you tested had the Z07 package and cost $97,595. That’s over the new Viper GT’s $94,995 starting price, and within four grand of the $101,995 TA 2.0.”
Steve-Dave kinda has us there. The track-focused T/A really is a pretty neat thing. But here’s the problem, our Z06 was all-in, including Chevy’s destination charge. Unlike our snake-charming pal, we always include destination and gas-guzzler tax, if such a fee is applicable. And the latter sure is applicable to the Viper—and adds $2100. Tack on Dodge’s rather onerous $1995 destination charge (even the notorious gougers in Zuffenhausen only have the stones to bill you $995 for GT3 delivery) and you’re looking at $99,090 for the GT and $106,090 for the TA, leaving only the base Viper, at $89,090, as the lone snake cheaper than our Zed Aught Six. And a base Z06, we might remind you, starts at $78,995.
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Always been a huge viper fan. I would much rather the last ACR viper than the new one. There is just something about it that I really like. I think looks wise they are looking at bit dated which is why I might lean towards the Corvette. I think they are a great looking car.
Hellsnake? Supercharged V-10 Viper Rumors Swirling in Detroit
When Dodge placed the 707-hp Hellcat V-8 in the Challenger SRT and the Charger SRT, it threw a little cold water on its Viper supercar. As a model whose sales were already disappointing, the last thing the Viper needed was to have the authority of its mighty 640-hp V-10 contested by supercharged eight-cylinder upstarts from its own family. But a report from the Mopar fanatics at Allpar suggests that the Viper may have a plan to regain its title as the brawniest production Chrysler product.
The folks at Allpar have a proven track record of gleaning accurate behind-the-scenes info from Auburn Hills, and the site says two separate sources have confirmed the delivery of supercharged V-10 engines to Chrysler, ostensibly for installation in the Viper. Fitting the 640-hp ten-holer with a supercharger should easily yield more than 707 horsepower, although the final figure would likely be limited by the durability of the engine block and internals. (For an idea of what engine upgrades and forced induction can do to the Viper’s 8.4-liter V-10, look no further than Hennessey’s 1120-hp Venom 1000 twin-turbo upgrade.)Making major powertrain changes costs bucks, though, and the last thing the $100,000-plus, slow-selling Viper needs is a price hike. So why not just toss the Hellcat V-8 engine in the Viper and turn up the wick just enough to reclaim its perch atop Mopar’s Horsepower Hill? There are the small matters of the Viper having always been a V-10—fans might go apoplectic if it loses two cylinders—and the reality that the Hellcat V-8 and its impressive intake plenum are too tall to fit under the Viper’s hood. Where the current round of horsepower one-upsmanship will end is anyone’s guess, but we’re certainly enjoying the show.
When Dodge placed the 707-hp Hellcat V-8 in the Challenger SRT and the Charger SRT, it threw a little cold water on its Viper supercar. As a model whose sales were already disappointing, the last thing the Viper needed was to have the authority of its mighty 640-hp V-10 contested by supercharged eight-cylinder upstarts from its own family. But a report from the Mopar fanatics at Allpar suggests that the Viper may have a plan to regain its title as the brawniest production Chrysler product.
The folks at Allpar have a proven track record of gleaning accurate behind-the-scenes info from Auburn Hills, and the site says two separate sources have confirmed the delivery of supercharged V-10 engines to Chrysler, ostensibly for installation in the Viper. Fitting the 640-hp ten-holer with a supercharger should easily yield more than 707 horsepower, although the final figure would likely be limited by the durability of the engine block and internals. (For an idea of what engine upgrades and forced induction can do to the Viper’s 8.4-liter V-10, look no further than Hennessey’s 1120-hp Venom 1000 twin-turbo upgrade.)Making major powertrain changes costs bucks, though, and the last thing the $100,000-plus, slow-selling Viper needs is a price hike. So why not just toss the Hellcat V-8 engine in the Viper and turn up the wick just enough to reclaim its perch atop Mopar’s Horsepower Hill? There are the small matters of the Viper having always been a V-10—fans might go apoplectic if it loses two cylinders—and the reality that the Hellcat V-8 and its impressive intake plenum are too tall to fit under the Viper’s hood. Where the current round of horsepower one-upsmanship will end is anyone’s guess, but we’re certainly enjoying the show.
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