“Chrysler Group has elevated the art of the striptease to a new level with the release of its first official image of the next-generation SRT Viper,” claims Automotive News [sub] . Not just the art of the striptease. Also the fine art practiced by the bar maiden who purrs into your pricked ear: “If you come here more often, then maybe …”
On its driveSRT Facebook page, Chrysler asked Facebook users for virtual petting: “Like” the driveSRT page at least 10,000 times, and Chrysler will show you a picture of the next Viper.
On Monday evening, the Facebook page had 12,000 likes. Chrysler had to ante up. At midnight, hyperventilating Viper-aficionados were given the picture above.
See, that`s what you get when you hang out with bar girls.
According to AN, Chrysler is restarting its shuttered Conner Avenue Assembly plant to build the Viper later this year as a 2013 model. Production of the previous Viper ended in 2010.
Rendered thusly, it does communicate a certain callousness.
Maybe with another 10,000 likes, they’ll let you smell the exhaust online.
“Nothing to see here…”, literally.
Thanks fer nuttin, Fiat…
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!
While I respect FIAT for developing another Viper, (maybe this one has the chassis of a Ferrari) I really doubt that they should be wasting time and money on a halo car when they need to turn around their entire product line and make a profit.
Umm, they already *have* turned around their product line and made a profit…
Speculative drawings based on the rumor mill, insider info and the like:
http://www.allpar.com/cars/viper/2012-dodge-viper.html
I like it so far. It looks like one thing and one thing only: a Viper. The more it looks like the first gen and less like the third gen it looks like, the better.
I agree. It seems like they are taking the same tack they did with the Durango: go back to the 1st generation for inspiration and forget the other generation(s) existed.
I’d have told them to park an original blue GTS in the design studio and tell the designers, “Like that, but updated and even better. Forget everything else.” That car’s shape was as perfect as anything an American automaker has ever produced.
Please leave the calf burner exhaust pipes out, though.
Its not even out yet and the alignments off? Or, is it supposed to sit at an angle?
I just hope that Chrysler dosen’t tack-on a black “mustache” like they did with the Charger.
Also the fine art practiced by the bar maiden who purrs into your pricked ear: “If you come here more often, then maybe …”
I had to do a double-take of the byline to make sure this hadn’t been posted by Baruth.
Bertel does “suggestive” as well as anybody at TTAC. Have you forgotten the photos already? Check his latest article, “Touch me! You are such a turn-on!”