Dodge Viper News
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Buy a new Dodge Viper and get a free .50 caliber Barrett sniper rifle as part of a deal being offered by Missouri car dealer Max Motors. Yes, you read that correctly. In a move mirroring the actions of Florida-based Nations Trucks, the Max Motors dealership will give you the sniper rifle but first you going to have to fork over close to $100,000 for the Viper. The dealer even coyly asks: “You don’t have a problem with God, do you?” Like the previous AK-47 for pickup deal, we’re assuming the Missouri dealer won’t be handing over the guns but rather a redeemable...
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Dodge Viper Still Dead, Viper Cup Carries On In 2011
The Dodge Viper may be due for a return in 2012, but it won't be the same Viper we grew to know, love, and fear. For that, you'll either have to find someone willing to let go of their car, or find a way to get a seat in the still-cranking Dodge Viper Cup Series, which today announced it will...
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Gilles: Next-Gen Viper To Get Fiat Tech, Electronic Nannies
We love the Dodge Viper. Brutal, anachronistic, uncontrolled yet controllable with application of considerable skill, the Viper was the last pure sports/super car until its death this year. The next-generation Viper's fangs won't be so sharp. That's the word from Dodge CEO Ralph Gilles according to...
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Ralph Gilles Confirms 2013 Dodge Viper
The Dodge Viper died a quick and ignominious death shortly after Fiat partnered with Chrysler, though even then there was talk that the car would be revived for 2012. With production at the car’s Conner Avenue assembly plant finally coming to an end earlier this year, all eyes have shifted...
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Viper V-10 Powered 2011 Dodge Challenger Drag Pak Revealed
It's hard to beat American muscle for hauling tail in a straight line, and Mopar's Drag Pak for the Dodge Challenger is among the best out-of-the-box Stock Eliminator/Super Stock configurations you can buy. For 2011, the deal gets even better: Viper V-10 power for just $85,512. Like previous Drag...
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2012 Dodge Viper Revealed At Dealer Conference?
The Dodge Viper died a quick and ignominious death shortly after Fiat partnered with Chrysler, though even then there was talk that the car would be revived for 2012. Now a report from Autoblog says Sergio Marchionne showed the 2012 Viper at a dealer meeting this week. There are essentially no...
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Production of the Dodge Viper finally came to a close at Chrysler’s Conner Avenue plant in Michigan earlier this month and to mark the historic event Dodge released a string of special edition Vipers based on the very last SRT10 and ACR models. The special edition models were designed and developed under Dodge’s ‘Dealer Exclusive Program’ and consisted mainly of custom racing stripes and color combinations, hardly fitting for the send out of one of America’s greatest sports cars of all time. Of course, there was the track-only ACR-X, but for one Dodge dealer, in...
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Video: Viper ACR-X Does A Hot Lap Around VIR With Ralph Gilles
The Dodge Brand president and CEO hits up the track where the Viper Cup ran its first two races.
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Dodge Viper Cup Wraps First Weekend
The first Dodge Viper Cup weekend saw two different winners in the first two races.
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Dodge Viper Cup Debuts At VIR This Weekend
Warm up those DVRs, as what may be the fastest spec series in the world is about to take the green flag. The Dodge Viper Cup series will hit the track for its inaugural race at VIR this weekend. Each car in the series is a purpose-built Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR-X, 640 horsepower and 605 pound-feet of...
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Dodge Delivers 'Ultimate' Factory Custom Viper
The gold-on-gold striped car will certainly turn heads.
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Future Car Flashback: 1989 Dodge Viper Concept
I was just a little shaver when Dodge introduced the Viper to the world back in 1989. By it's first year of production, however, I had already experienced my first feelings of car lust. Although the primary object of my affection was Chevy's IROC Camaro, the 1992 Dodge Viper instantly made it's way...
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What snorts pavement for breakfast, breathes with red-hot 10-cylinder lungs and beats a Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR around Laguna Seca by two seconds? The Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR-X, of course. With lap times about half as long as the name, the Viper ACR-X is also destined for a very short production run, with the final 25 being built at Chrysler's Conner Avenue plant in Michigan as you read this. Built specifically with road courses in mind, the ACR-X offers the best of the Viper ACR with some of the performance enhancements of the Viper Competition Coupe and some extra safety gear. This latest video...
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Report: Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Was Originally The Next Viper
The engineering team at Dodge was the reportedly the originator of the SLS AMG's design.
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More Special Edition 2010 Dodge Viper SRT10s Coming In Dealer Exclusive Program
The Dodge Viper in its current form is in its final year of production, with the last handful of cars scheduled to be assembled at the car’s Conner Avenue plant in Michigan in the coming months. While an all-new version is expected sometime in 2012, the current model, now only in SRT10 trim, will...
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Video: Dodge Viper Seeks Immortality Through Motorsports
The Dodge Viper ends its production run this year, but it may live on as a race car.
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Dodge Unveils 2010 Viper SRT10 Final Edition
The final Dodge Vipers will roll off the line this year, with a limited run of 50 special cars marking the close.
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Brazil’s Amoritz GT DR7 Supercar Previewed In New Teaser
The Amoritz name would probably be unfamiliar in most automotive circles. That’s because it doesn’t hail from the U.S. or Europe, but rather it comes from Brazil. Amoritz is the name of a new supercar start-up, whose first product, the GT DR7, has been previewed today in teaser form. The car...
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Dodge CEO Ralph Gilles also says the ACR-X beat the Laguna Seca lap record by two seconds.
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Video: Dodge Viper ACR-X Headers Glow On Dyno Test
The Dodge Viper ACR-X is the company's track-only retail race monster.
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Ouch, My Wallet: 2010's 10 Most Expensive Cars To Insure
We all hate the insurance bill we have to pay, but it beats paying out of pocket when things go wrong.
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Viper Owners Fear Not: Viper Club To Source Replacement Parts Directly
The Dodge Viper will see its last year of production in 2010, but may come back by 2012.
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Tomahawk-Riding Wolfgang Bernhard Returns To Mercedes-Benz Cars Division
Wolfgang Bernhard may soon be heading up Mercedes-Benz as well.
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Video: 408-HP Protoscar LAMPO2 EV Unveiled Ahead Of Geneva Motor Show
The 2010 Geneva Motor Show will host the official debut of the Protoscar LAMPO2 electric sports car.
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