The 2010 Dodge Viper ACR

Despite the references to cooperation in the Chrysler Viper with new Italian owners, there will be no Viper Ferrari.

Hey, it was a natural question, the more open the door Dodge, who in a press release Tuesday on a lap record of a production Viper ACR at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca (1:33.915 series, more this in a minute).

"When we partner across the ocean, known as the best manufacturer of sports cars in the world, future opportunities are enormous," said Chief Ralph Gilles Dodge brand in a statement.

The future prospects of that - a Ferrari V12 Viper in the body? A Viper V10 in A 612 Steined francs? What? It might be crazy, look at the possibilities. We spoke directly with Gilles and asked if it would be a cons-engineering or parts of shares, as far as our overactive imagination could conceive. We asked a Dodge Viper Ferrari.

"No," he said in a tone about as definitive as Auto execs as ever.

And what did it for the "chances are good?"

"They really know sports cars. We just want to give only one advice, "said Gilles.

But would not a Viper Ferrari cool to be independent?

"Ferrari is Ferrari, Viper," he said. "Please do not go there."

Ok.

We got this fascinating TidBITS Dodge Viper 2010 is a new graphics package! New comic! And a new color - Green Anaconda! In addition, a new interior for the year is the Viper 2010 Auto Show Los Angeles has begun.

The Viper 2010 is a more short fifth gear obtained (varying from 0.74 to 0.80) for better acceleration at high speed and high speed equal to the previous 2008 "Lap Record" disabled on the Nordschleife of Nürburgring, where it was found that a revised report would be a capacity greater speed and May result in a shorter time elapsed. The Viper 2010, a new shifter race reduced and allows the rear end plates and wing profile redesigned more than 4 km / h too, topping at 184 mph .

These last two improvements to the right as the Dodge plans to reduce its balance sheet, the Nordschliefe to reset it.

"This is frankly not a big priority," said Gilles.

So there are your messages.

Oh, and as the new best time was. Here's how Dodge is as follows:

"Chris Winkler, an engineer in vehicle dynamics SRT test a red-black 2010 Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR (American Club Racer) to a lap record of 1:33.915 by Motech recorded in the data recorder car (1:33.944 - as an unofficial record of the clock) around the 2,238-mile, 11-series (Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca), of course, smashing the previous lap record by over 1.1 seconds. " Here are some videos of Dodge:

Now, we can not say it was not a great success, although 1.1 seconds can be "shocking" by some definitions, and the car is "Beat" was a GTX Devon, who may not share many parts with the Viper that most snakes. And is the concept of "production" and "record". For its part, Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, when queried, responded with a brief e-mail, which ended with these words:

"The official record is 1:07.722 set by Helio Castroneves in qualifying for the race in 2000."

Close your eyes and count one Mississippi, two Mississippi, up to 27 to see how they are removed, the actual record. Of course, Castroneves was not in a production vehicle, but there were only four Reynard-Hondas in the race 10 years ago and a total of 19 Reynard one type or another on the grid, Except for back-up cars? Perhaps Reynard could be a production car, too.

Dodge Viper ACR was only 303 in total for all years; maybe more than 302 Devon has GTXs. But if you start on this path, then you only have to degenerate into arguments and debates on the "production", "record" and "Auto", and we do not want any nasty e-mails.

All this could be a smart way for Dodge, the attention that they have sold only 245 Vipers model year 2009 and tries to divert the way we planned to sell all 500 for the Vipers' model year 2010. Dodge to begin launching the 2010s, in the spring, when no one 2009. Then, production will stop in mid-summer, while 500 were branded 2010s.

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