Tag: viper

For ages now, some Mopar lovers have suggested that the Chrysler Group should produce a Dodge Viper with a Hemi V8 rather than the familiar V10, but the biggest factor preventing that was the lack of available, reliable and street friendly power. Over the past few years, the most powerful Hemi from Chrysler was the […] More »

For our Mopar Muscle Thursday feature we have a short clip of a 1999 Dodge Viper GTS fitted up with an unspecified twin turbocharger package that makes it sound so freakin awesome, I couldn’t pass it up.  While most of our Mopar Muscle clips show cars, trucks and SUVs doing burnouts, racing or performing some […] More »

Last week’s updated 5-year plan from the Chrysler Group included the news that the SRT brand will be consolidated into the Dodge brand and with that, the SRT Viper will once again become the Dodge Viper.  This news included the fact that the “new” Dodge Viper will be refreshed from the SRT Viper on sale […] More »

As the information in Chrysler’s 2014 5-year plan hit the web last week, the key piece of information was that the SRT brand was being consolidated into the Dodge brand – making the SRT Viper the Dodge Viper once again.  Even though the high performance brand is being killed off, there will still be plenty […] More »

This week’s Truckin Fast Wednesday clip features a 1998 Dodge Ram 2500 racing on an 8th mile drag strip against a 4th generation Dodge Viper SRT10 Roadster.  At first, that probably sounds like a race that will end up in a Viper handing out a good, sound beating but when you factor in a heavy […] More »

The SRT Viper Time Attack model allowed the Chrysler Group to reclaim some track records briefly held by the Chevrolet Corvette thanks to a specially tuned suspension setup, unique aero bits and a lower curb weight thanks to the fact that the Time Attack model is based on the base SRT Viper and not the […] More »

Although the SRT Viper saw an increase in sales in March 2014 to 67 units, sales have been slower than expected since the car was introduced in early 2013.  Numbers peaked in June and July of 2013 with 97 and 94 units sold respectively and while the company didn’t expect to sell a thousand a […] More »