Dodge Introduces Viper SRT10 ACR Street-Legal Track Car

The viper is known for its very spartan and consistently overheating interior, and its brutal ride accompanied by its crude handling that is merely based on whim due to an unecessary large amount of horsepower that cannot be balanced with the car's curb weight. Very contrary what this whole article and especially the last paragraph right up there has been blabbering about.

I was just restating some things I recalled reading from a previous month's Road and Track or one of those car magazines. They did a comparison of the z06 and the Viper and I am nearly sure that they said the same things about the viper. My speculation may be incorrect as I admit i've never driven one and you have.

Both of you guys hold down a good point, but you gotta agree that it is absolutly beautiful to look at.

I can't help but think that Dodge has blown away their last chance to put into production the fairly awesome GTS-R concept or the Competition Viper. The rear end of either cars I think would be far suited to this type of car. Plus the sloping roof line.

its so ugly and doesnt sell well considering its low price! German cars that cost more are selling more than this!

An aluminum engine with 8.4L , but only gives 600hp!! Oh, My god, When they going to learn? with that size German can reach 2000hp !!!

It sounds like "silversedanman," is now resurrected as "bluemagic." lol

lol thats right AZNMAN they were probably banned and had to make new names!!! i was wondering why "silversedanman" wasn't ripping this new viper to shreds.

i hope that the next evolutiion in the viper incorporates some design elements of the 02' concept (although i doubt it). it would be awesome if they decide to go mid-engine like the next corvette. oh and CAR-LOVER the reason the engines being so big (viper 8.0L, zo6 7.0L) is because the engineers wanted the most amount of torque to be available at the lowest rpm (low-end torque). both of these cars have almost 100% of their torque available from about 3500 RPM, and those other engines your talking about however efficient they may be have to go at LEAST 5500 RPM or much higher to achieve their optimal torque output. low-end torque = stoplight drag races = FUN.

foxhound, the 600 series mercedes engine makes 612lb-ft from 1800-3500rpm. and 510hp at 5000rpm. and that is a luxury car engine not a "race car" this car still is the same as when it first started, it was made for a redneck by another redneck in a barn. There is no new technology on this thing. Big engine, wide wheels and thats it...

Oh and i forgot to mention on what track on this planet would this car not get destroyed by a 100,000$ lotus elise? This is a drag car and will always be, and in drag racing wings and diffusers slow u down pointlessly. this car is a joke, it doesnt belong anywhere.

Yes. Those numbers are correct for a 600 Series Mercedes. However, you're comparing the Viper's normally aspirated engine with a Mercedes bi-turbo. Twin turbo Vipers are making well over 1000 hp. Also, I doubt you're aware Lamborghini developed the early Viper engines. Chrysler owned Lambo at the time. I guess there are rednecks at Lambo?!? That's pretty racist to me.

And would it help you to know that this viper would probably have much better track times than a 4 cylinder elise as well as a v12 600 benz? No matter how american or pointlessly powerful it is you gotta accept that fact that this car is indeed fast. btw, the elise is 50,000 here in the US, and the exige isn't that much more expensive.

And another thing! The standard '08 Viper set Car & Driver magazine's fastest lap at Virginia International Raceway. VIR is a world class facility, not some make-shift track assembled on an airstrip (i.e. Top Gear). The new Viper turned laps faster than Porsche's GT3 which I consider a great track car. The Viper ACR is much more focused and has been bred for road racing. I just can't understand why you kids believe American cars cannot handle. American race cars (i.e. Viper GTSR, C6R Saleen S7R, Mosler MT900 etc.) has won races world-wide.

The Virginia International Raceway is mostly straight ofcourse the viper would beat a 415hp porsche, put the two cars on a track with more turns and the gt3 would come ontop. And the race cars you listed aren't normal cars you cant even compare them to this or any car they cost 5million each other than the block and the exterior they have nothing in common with the street car. As for me stating the figures of the 600 merc. it was just a response to "other cars have to rev over 3500rpm to make power" the only other car that merc has with the same block is the SLR and there is no point in even comparing it to a viper. As for the elise i was talking about a track version as this is a track built viper. They have 400hp elises that on a track would run circles around this car.

As for lambo desigining the block it really tells you how confident they were in their design because their current engines have nothing in common with this engine. It's a simple fact North America only has the technology to make 1 sports car and thats the Corvette. Vipers sold so well dodge had to make a useless SRT-10 truck to get rid of their extra engines.

wow i think radmeister, silversedanman, and bluemagic are the same person. guys what do you think? their grasp of language skills and the use of the word "ofcourse" in most of their posts are suspiciously similar. plus their hate for all things NOT german is a dead giveaway. obviously radmeister when i talk about engines that big i mean naturally aspirated, but if you want to talk bi-turbo angines this big check this link http://www.supercars.net/cars/3241.html "ofcourse" you'lle probably give me a thousand reasons why this car sucks but nobody cares because just about everybody in this site is tired of your superiority complex pshyco babble about how germany is the best. and as for this car being "designed for a redneck by a redneck" at least we know how to enjoy ourselves and have fun with our cars and are not tied down by some elitest atitude toward the world.

http://www.supercars.net/cars/3241.html

Link doesnt work lemme guess hennessy 1000 venom?? there was nothing special bout that car when it came out and still isnt anything special, if you are willing to pay 275,000$ for a 1000hp viper be my guest. I'll take a 2 year old murcielago or a new GT2. If you want impressive technology and bi-turbo power look at old bmw F1 cars or the Porsche 962 not at vipers and then try to convince me how godly they are with their 120hp/L.

Better yet look at the Auto Union Type D. made in 1938 with a 3L Supercharged V12 making 485hp. That was 1938 this viper doesnt even compare to that car when it comes to leading edge engineering and ingenuity. I will restate my original statement this car is nothing more than a big engine with wide rear tires. nothing more, never was and never will be