Love it or hate it, the Viper is undoubtedly an icon. Its two previous incarnations followed the same recipe: aggressive styling, a big-displacement V10 up front with huge torque driving the rear wheels and…that’s about it.
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As it’s getting ready to exit the stage, though, another player comes charging in. In fact, it’s the only other car from Detroit that can lay claim to be an American supercar: the all-new SRT Viper.
It would be unfair to the ‘Vette to even think about pitting them against each other, wouldn’t you agree?
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No, we are not talking about the "Whale shark?" remark on our post with the first official teasers of the F150, but "The Italian Viper?" comment that followed.
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It offers buyers a choice of two models, the base version priced at $97,395 and the better equipped GTS at $120,395 (equal to €76,000 and €93,900 at today's rates). Both MSRPs do not include a $1,995 destination charge.
“The Street and Racing Technology brand team is extremely proud that our hand-built-in-Detroit, flagship supercar is back and ready to take on the performance-car world,” said SRT CEO Ralph Gilles.
“Our returning customers will see the world-class levels of pride, quality and hand-built craftsmanship built into the 2013 Viper," he added.
"With two price classes of the SRT Viper and SRT Viper GTS, we have offerings for both the traditional core Viper customer and for the new customer who wants the same performance in a package with more technology and premium creature comforts.”
Among the dozen or so SEMA show-bound Chrysler cars that have no yet been unveiled in the flesh are the "Moparized" 2013 SRT Viper and the Jeep Wrangler Sand Trooper, both of which were teased through renderings.
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For this year's SEMA Show, they had the opportunity to do it again, this time with the latest iteration of the Dodge Charger sports sedan that gets a Viper 8.4-liter V10 Mopar crate engine, good enough for 650-horsepower, or 10hp more than the new 2013 SRT Viper sports coupe.
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As with any other proposal from Hennessey, it all starts with a heavy tuning of the SRT Viper's 8.4-liter V10 engine, which in stock form, delivers 640 horsepower and 600 lb.-ft. of torque to the rear wheels via a 6speed manual gearbox.
Hennessey will offer two performance packages for Chrysler's finest sports car.
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An Autonews report back in July, quoted Ralph Gilles, CEO of the SRT brand, saying that around 15 to 20 percent (or roughly 340 to 460 showrooms) of Chrysler's more than 2,300 U.S. dealers will carry the V10-powered sports car, but according to USA Today, Gilles has now lowered that number even more to only about 100 to 150 shops or 4-6%.
Gilles told the newspaper that the No. 1 requirement, "Is first of all, to have the fire, the passion. That's the unofficial requirement -- that you have a love affair with the cars and you just love fast cars."
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As it prepares for a mid-November launch, the automaker invited members of the motoring press to try out the potency of the venom produced by the new Viper's uprated 8.4-liter V10 powerplant at the Gingerman Speedway in South Haven, Michigan.
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The good news is that the Viper carries a starting MSRP of more than $15,000 lower than that of GM's rivaling Chevrolet Corvette ZR1. As always, the bad news is that at $97,395 excluding a $1,995 destination fee (*), which lifts the total to $99,390, most [of us] cannot afford it...
Aside from the base model, there's also the Viper GTS priced at $120,395 (excluding $1,995 destination).
This version spices up the snake with several goodies such as a two-mode active suspension and six-spoke forged-aluminum “Venom” rims, while keeping the same 8.4-liter V10 engine that delivers 640 horsepower and 600 lb.-ft. of torque to the rear wheels via a 6speed manual gearbox.
The car is named the SRT Viper GTS Launch Edition and it pays homages to past Viper Coupe reveals in 1996 and 2006. It is finished in the Viper's distinctive GTS Blue paint with dual Bright White stripes running the entire length of the sports car and it rides on five-spoke polished forged-aluminum design wheels.
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Today, the SRT brand released a new picture of a different engineering prototype that the automaker says just "passed its dry-track stability control testing with flying colors".
What makes this pre-production model newsworthy is the new paint job that couples a red hue for the body with twin racing stripes in white running from bumper to bumper.
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The reinstated host of The Tonight Show was joined by Beth Paretta, head of director of marketing at SRT, and Mark Trostle, head of SRT design, who talk us through the new Viper.
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This time, the Chrysler Group's racing division headed out to the Virginia International Raceway as they prepare for the Viper GTS-R's American Le Mans Series (ALMS) competition debut later this season.
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The car displayed at the Barrett-Jackson event in California, however, was a pre-production model, as the Chrysler Group has not yet begun building the new Viper for consumers at its Conner Avenue Assembly Plant in Detroit.
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Now we learn that SRT Motorsports recently completed the first on-track test of the 2013 SRT Viper GTS-R racer with team driver Marc Goossens at the Carolina Motorsports Park in preparation for its entry in the American Le Mans Series GT class later this year.
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The most recent sighting of the snake was at the 2013 Moparpalooza fest, which took place on May 20 at the Fair Oaks Motors dealership in Chantilly, Virginia.
The SRT brands boss Ralph Gilles was on hand to talk with Mopar enthusiasts and detail the new Viper sports coupe.
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Found for sale on eBay, is this 1971 Plymouth ViperCuda, which as the name suggests, is powered by a V10 engine sourced from the modern day Dodge Viper. But there's more than meets the eye to this creation that started life as a four-seater 1971 Plymouth Barracuda Convertible with a 318 cu.in. (5.2-liter V8) engine.
The comprehensive conversion was performed by Time Machines from Hudson, Florida, which begun by acquiring the intact chassis and V10 engine from a wrecked 2001 Viper with 23,000-miles on the odo.
After stripping the Barracuda's body from the original chassis, they then fabricated a hybrid platform incorporating most parts of the Viper's chassis components including the fully independent suspension.
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