Mad, bad and dangerous to know and drive: it’s a description that fits the Dodge Viper to a tee. Until the 2013 brand-new SRT model, that is, which has gained all kinds of bells and whistles and is supposedly a more user-friendly kind of supercar.
The latter term is relative, of course, as all who have driven the 2013 SRT Viper agree that it is more civilized than its wild predecessors but still remains an animal when you push it to the limit.
How do you measure that change in attitude, though? Comparing the brand new car to the original is an exercise in the futile as they are separated by two decades.
Car & Driver went ahead and did it anyway, picking up a new GTS and a 1997 coupe. It’s not just any 1997 car though, as this one has been heavily modified in all aspects, from the engine that pumps out 660HP (that’s 200 more than the original and 20 more than the 2013 car) up to the suspension, brakes and exhaust. There are still no electronics in sight, not even ABS...
The answer to whether a tuned old Viper can hold a candle to the all-new models comes in the video that follows the break.
By Andrew Tsaousis
4 Comments:
HELLO! It's the same damn car. A comparison where they make up an excuse for not pushing the older car to its limits, because during testing the old tuned Viper was smoking the new one. Yet another fail from the Chrysler marketing people. They can't build a better car, and they can't come up with but convincing marketing campaign to get people to buy what is virtually an identical car with different bodywork, and an X-brace under the hood. Now let's hear from the bought and paid for corporate owned slaves defending their slave masters.
Suprised you sounding like a conspiracy truther. Do you have a hard for Donald TRUMP because you are becoming more and more like him.
"It’s not just any 1997 car though, as this one has been heavily modified in all aspects, from the engine that pumps out 660HP (that’s 200 more than the original and 20 more than the 2013 car) up to the suspension, brakes and exhaust."
Hardly an apt comparison.
Let's see them compare it to a untouched 2010 model to see a true apple to apples comparison
What if they add a supercharger or twin turbos to the new Viper, it would easily make 900hp. Then what would your excuse be, they are comparing it to a 16 year old car. And yes, the whole point is to keep the soul design of the Viper in every model or else they would come up to you and ask for a whole new project design. If that's the case tell me what Porsche does for the entire brand, but everyone admire it because they know what whole thing about keeping design mean.
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