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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Britboyj27 10:11PM (8/04/2007)
I realise it's supposed to be a driver's car, but could Dodge at least update the interior? It's not 1995 anymore. It just doesn't cut it, especially for the other stuff you can get for the price tag.
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Viv 10:22AM (8/04/2007)
No, thy name will always be a corvette.
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bert 3:30PM (8/04/2007)
Viper is like an investment banker or any other wall street high rolling job - people talk mad crap and inslult about this behind the back but faced and confronted in real life, they marvel in envy and jealousy.
Kevin 10:37AM (8/05/2007)
The Godzilla will always be the Nissan GTR coming soon & the Toyota Supra yrs 94 +. I've seen the signs "fear 2JZGTE' that beast will destroy this viper with just 20K in mods. Buy the car for 28K+20K= 48K with 700+ hp. JDM is #1
Jeff Banks 7:44PM (8/05/2007)
No.
Petey 10:26AM (8/04/2007)
The Viper has always been a joke... the only way they know how to make more HP is to add more displacement... more lateral grip, just add larger rims and wider tires, etc, etc. No wonder its engine sounds like a UPS delivery truck.
Never mind about engineering, Dodge doesnt know what that means.
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DS 11:51AM (8/04/2007)
they increased displacment by .1 liters, I dont think that that gives 100 more hp
they got more horsepower with VVT, new cams , etc
mike-1-2->7 12:40PM (8/04/2007)
This is So Cool.
The cross-plane crank V8 engine design will actually produce little performance improvement, yet, this one car will be able to cancel out 15 Toyota Prius's!!!
Artic Glaciers melting?
Western State Fires?
WooHoo, the Affluent will skrew this country into a catastrophic environmental failure!
Cody Peterson 1:41PM (8/04/2007)
Mike.. you are a moron....
Big Deal, yeah this thing might guzzle gas, but you act as though everybody and their brother is going to go out and pony up 83k to buy it... seriously, how many of these things are going to be on the road? God forbid, if someone does so choose to spend their hard earned money on a car, actually gets to drive one? Then again, I guess they should just go make some granola, grab some Birkenstocks, and ride their bicycle down PCH... plus, how many miles per day, do you thinks these vehicles travel? Nobody is going to be using it as a daily driver, you would have to be mad (or have a really short commute).
I hate this whole green movement... God forbid you have fun.... but instead this whole movement is trying to make everyone feel bad about themselves for driving cars and not recycling and all that stuff... basically, everyone acts as though we should be born, and then feel bad about being born and therefore spend our entire lives trying to redeem the fact that us "terrible people" are destroying Earth... but in all reality, as George Carlin would say, The Planet Is Fine....
dakota 4:36PM (8/04/2007)
I'm sure you don't know what engineering means either, obviously you don't have an automotive company do you?
Fosterdad 5:08PM (8/04/2007)
Mike, get off your high horse. You don't actually think that a species as insigificant as man could affect the environment for an entire planet. Here are some inconvenient truths. 95% of all CO2 comes from water vapor (the oceans). Less than half of the remaining 5% comes from burning fossil fuels. There is every reason to believe that any "global warming" is caused by increased solar activity (are you going to blame Viper owners for what happens on the sun?). It was warmer 1000 years ago than it is now. That's why the Vikings called Greenland "Greenland", because it was green. It isn't any more. The polar ice caps on Mars are melting.
Because of energy used in producing and shipping the battery, a Prius uses more fossil fuels than even the largest SUVs. You wanna "save the Earth", buy a Ford Expedition.
You wanna buy a tin-can like the Prius, go ahead. You'll be doing more damage to the environment than a Viper owner will, but all that matters with liberals are intentions and any actual consequences are beside the point.
mike-1-2->7 6:59PM (8/04/2007)
All I can say is guys, the scientific data, supports global warming, not wishful thinking.
Remember, world population:
1900 1.6 billion
1950 2.7 billion
2007 6.7 billion - That's a scary growth curve. You're either part of the solution, for your own children, or, your part of the problem.
I just hope your children do curse the day you were born, and the day they were born.
Irfan 10:27AM (8/04/2007)
still with a Kia's interior.
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zamafir 12:28PM (8/04/2007)
Indeed. It needs 600hp to justify such a price tag given it's paltry, never been changed since introduction, chevy aveo interior, driving position, et al. Any time I hear someone question the price of a refined daily supercar like the R8, I point them firmly in the direction of the viper. What gives? I've sat in the firepower, I've touched the ME Fourtwelve, it's not like chrysler can't do interiors, they just choose not to... oh... because we still buy their products for their obscene hp number. Whoops, no one to fault really but us, american cars are the way they are because we are the way we are. It's just a pity because they could be so much better, especially this car.
J.Crew 10:35AM (8/04/2007)
No kidding, the only cool Viper to me was the first GTS coupe. They really have done nothing to move the design further. This interior is still built to the same standards as the first one with a few extra guages and different shapes. Cheap is the only way to describe this thing inside and out. A Corvette puts this to shame and will continue to do so. I am sure Chrysler will wonder why there is very little excitment for the "new" Viper. It has more power, but looks like it got a classic Pontiac "facia" redesign like the old Sunfire, even if they did update the powertrain.
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J.Crew 10:49AM (8/04/2007)
I meant "fasica"... the old Pontiac "redesign" trick. Put a new nose on the car and call it redesigned....
Phillip 6:57PM (8/04/2007)
The whole update the front end trick has been done for years, well before the Sunfire. Take a look at the Chevy/GMC trucks since the 50s. Even the 73-87s, even with their drastic changed in that time span, it was really just updating the front clip over time. Even my '69 CST/10 is apart of this. Its not necessarily a bad thing for some auto makers, so long as the platform gets up dates over time.
But for the viper, I agree the ol GTS was the only cool one. This car is way played out by now.
len simpson 11:22AM (8/04/2007)
who actually builds the viper? one would think it,s original shortcomings would have been addressed by now
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Mani 11:09AM (8/04/2007)
For the life of me I can't understand why they didn't fix the driver seating position on the newest one. Anyone who's driven a Viper knows that you actually have to sit somewhat to an angle in the front driver seat because of the transmission tunnel. This one is no different. You get to drive down the road sitting at an angle.
Look at the picture with the front driver seat and steering and you can see what I'm talking about.
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Aetius 11:17AM (8/04/2007)
J.Crew - To be fair to Dodge, Porsche has been doing that for about five decades now.
But yes, when it comes to evolution of a design language, Corvette wins it. I always appreciate how you see the lineage in the C06 design and yet it looks as modern as a F430.
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