VIPER – The Great and Dreadful (The Complete History of the Dodge SRT Viper)

When it comes to sports cars from the New World, the first thing that comes to mind is the Chevrolet Corvette, which, in its fifth generation, engineers finally managed to teach it to take corners at the level of its European colleagues. In the following generations, Corvette gave the buyer a lot of car for its price, and if to consider specials, it is indecently much. For similar dynamic indicators, including time on the North Loop, equipment and design in Europe asked at least twice as much money. But there was even more American reading of a sports car: steam engine torque, fiberglass body, mechanical transmission, minimum comfort and complete absence of modern safety systems. Exactly such from birth was the Dodge Viper - unbearable in the format of everyday use, technically simple, as a mechanical meatshop and extremely stroppy, if you had the guts to push the accelerator to the floor. This issue of AutoTRENDS is dedicated to the amazing history of the Dodge SRT Viper...