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8.4 liters. 10 cylinders. 640 horsepower. 600 lb-ft of torque. 3297 pounds. It’s still a Viper.
Here’s the long awaited 2013 SRT Viper. There is only one choice, a 6 speed manual transmission. Weight is down while power is up. Stability control and an 8.4 inch touch screen are concessions to comfort, but there will be a track version that loses another 57 pounds. Sounds like the right concept. Execution will be an entirely different matter.
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Impressive, but it sort of looks like a wasp from the side.
I’ve always liked the unrefined quality of the Viper.
also coming soon to an ALMS race near you to battle it out with Corvette, BMW, Porsche, Lotus, and Ferrari.
I wish it was lighter, but that’s still one damn fine ride.
According to Allpar.com:
“the Viper is at 4.91 pounds/horsepower, after Bugatti Veyron, Ferrari F12. Ahead of ZR1, Porsche 911 Turbo, Lamborghini Aventador.”
So I’m assuming you will be looking into a Veyron or F12 for at least 10X the price?
http://www.allpar.com/news/index.php/2012/04/viper-640-hp-and-much-more
90+% of the time, you probably won’t be driving this ting at max power, in which case so absolute weight matters more than power/weight. And then, 3500lbs (with driver) is still 3500lbs. Not bad, but hardly Elise (or even Miata) like, either.
Either way, I’m sure it will be one fun hoot of a ride. And as you noted, priced an awful lot lower than most of the direct competition.
Big wheels, big tires, big brakes, big components to handle all that torque – those things add weight.
This is only 300-400 lbs. more than the new Boxster. I agree that a 3300 sports car is heavy, but I think it’s pretty difficult to get it any lighter with that much power.
Every time I look at the profile it seems like it’s been snapped in two and then glued rather poorly back together again. Weird.
I was thinking it looks “scored” so you know where it will break in half when you hit the telephone pole going 100 mph. Sideways.
It’s got stability control now. You’ll hit the pole head on.
Same. Looks like it’s been in a rear-ender. Like a smaller coupe crashed in to an enormous free-standing front-end.
It looks like the original Viper mated with a Ferrari. Not impressed…
You just cant handle the intensity of this car porn.
Dodge/Chrysler just keeps turning out one hit after another. Saw the Dart in person the other week. Couldn’t get in it, but from the outside, it definitely looks like the next-gen Neon they needed.
5lb/hp is the new 10lb/hp. I love it.
Are the front wheels and tires shorter than the rear? Trying to think what other road car(s) have done this…
The two I thought of off the top of my head are the C6 Corvette Z06 (and maybe some other variants) and all Chrysler Crossfires.
Looks great to me. An updated and modernized (I guess) take on the original design. Which is why I don’t really get the people seeing a lot of Ferrari in this design since it really isn’t all that different from the original design… besides the headlights of course.
wow, those really are tailights from the Maserati. It looks like a Viper with some Italian bits thrown at it. not that i’m saying that in a negative way.. no one is going to mistake that for anything that isn’t a Viper. I always liked the coupe over the roadster, too.
Dipping into the corporate parts bin for a low volume halo car isn’t quite as bad when the bins include Ferrari and Maserati parts…
Now that the interior is fixed, im sold.
Hood’s too long
Blasphemy! A front engine sports cars hood can never be too long and the deck can never be too short.
Yeah, the hood’s long, it houses a 10 cylinder engine.
The Viper has always been a vulgar pig of a car, the thought that throwing horsepower at a problem somehow fixes it.
And while you can throw a few aero kits on it and make it fast around a track and handle well, the street version of this thing will just kill you.
And let’s not forget what happens when some idiot puts this engine in a pickup truck.
You’re saying all of that like it’s a bad thing.
This is not accurate. Most of the folks who’ve tried the current-gen Viper have praised it for benign handling. It’s no more or less likely to kill you than any other ludicrously-powered coupe.