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The Future of the Viper is Uncertain

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Future Uncertain for Dodge Viper

One of the biggest news stories for Chrysler in the past few weeks has been the continuing negotiations with the UAW.  Car and Driver did some digging through the contract that is being proposed by Fiat-Chrysler and the United Auto Workers and may have found some troubling news for fans of the Dodge Viper.

What Car and Driver discovered in the contracts is that the Conner Avenue Assembly Plant, which is where the Viper is currently being built, has not product build for 2017 and no future product planned.  That means that Dodge may be shelving the Viper again and it may be sometime before we see it again.

The Dodge Viper has been having a hard time finding itself since being brought back.  While initial sales were not the best, it did improve when Dodge put in a price drop.  The biggest problem with the momentum of the Viper is that other supercars are stealing its thunder.  It’s hard to look past the Hellcats when talking about performance and while Viper has been boasting about the capability of the ACR, it does seem to be a tad short.

It may be time to think about where the Viper is supposed to be now that it is back in the Dodge family.  The Hellcats are pushing the performance, so what is it that the Viper has to offer besides a cool look and nostalgia?

There is no confirmation on if this news is legit and it could change before the finalization of the agreement.  Maybe there is hope for the Viper yet.

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2016 Viper ACR: Fastest Street-Legal Viper Ever!

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The Dodge Viper is back and this time it is really bringing the heat.  The 2016 Dodge Viper ACR is an evolution of the supercar.  It is the ultimate street-legal car drivers have been waiting for.

“The Viper has always been more of a street-legal race car than a track-capable streetcar, and the new 2016 Dodge Viper ACR is the fastest street-legal Viper track car ever,” raved Tim Kuniskis, President and CEO of Dodge and SRT Brand.  “Our goal is to arm our enthusiast with the ultimate Viper track car to dominate road courses around the world.”

To accomplish this, the engineers assigned to the new Viper at SRT took a look at the previous Vipers that competed in the American Le Mans Series and IMSA United SportsCar Championship.  They decided to use this information to focus on three key areas to make the ACR the best Viper possible: aerodynamics, chassis, and tires.

The new ACR Extreme Aero Package has nearly 1 ton of peak downforce; the highest downforce of any production car.  The package includes an adjustable dual-element rear wing that is 62 percent larger than the one on the Viper TA 2.0.  This is specifically designed for airflow around the body of the Viper.

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See a Tour of the Dodge Viper Production Plant

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Have you ever wondered how a Dodge Viper is made?

USA Today was given a tour of the Conner Avenue Assembly Plant by FCA US.  It is at this plant where the Viper gets hand-built by plant workers.  What they noticed is that the feeling and the atmosphere of the plant is very different in comparison to many others.  For starters, it is quieter.  That is because the cars put together here aren’t fully automated, it is done by hand by a worker.

“…each worker performs a range of tasks that the company says are comparable to what 150 different workers do at a normal assembly plant.”

The rate that cars are churned out is drastically lower compared to other assembly plants.  Where a normal modern plant is able to get a car off the line every minute, the ones built at the Conner Avenue plant take upwards of 2 and a half hours.

“Over its 20 year history of making Vipers the Conner Avenue plant has produced 24,000 of the cars.  That is a volume that is tiny by almost any measure.  FCA US sold more than 37,000 Ram pickups last month alone.”

The Dodge Viper was never meant to be a large volume seller.  That is what Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis reminds the paper.  One of the biggest appeals of the Viper has been the limited number and the attention to detail paid to it as a result.

This is great news on the cusp of the Viper just getting its newest and fastest version, the Viper ACR.  Check out the rest of the article to see the numerous pictures of the Viper being made.

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