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Check Out FCA’s Ralph Gilles Race a Viper ACR Around the Track for Labor Day Weekend

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Oh to be the head of a car company so that I could spend my weekends “test driving” the hottest and fastest cars.  That’d be a nice way to live.

That’s just what Ralph Gilles, Fiat-Chrysler’s Head Designer, gets to do.  Auto Evolution hosted a look at how he spent his Labor Day weekend.  He took off from the office and headed to the Pittsburgh International Race Complex to take the Dodge Viper ACR for a few trips around the track.

The videos of the event are a blast.  It’s entertaining to see someone who clearly loves the place he works for and the products they make enjoy them in a way so few get to.  He races his ACR against another one.  Check out the videos and try not to want a career change afterwards.

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SRT Vipers Face-Off in Street Race!

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What would happen if you took 2 Vipers and put them to race against each other?  The answer is much less thrilling than it sounds.  It turns out that if you put the Viper Street Race Edition against a Viper TA, you get a very close call.

TRC (That Racing Channel) did just that and filmed it for their YouTube site.  It certainly seems like an interesting idea on paper; to see if the difference in performance between the two Vipers would translate to one completely out doing the other.  What happens instead is a very close race that amounts to a very close call between the two.

Both vehicles featured in the video are the 2014 models and both are equipped with a V10 engine.  To compare, the Carbon Edition has ported heads, exhaust, intake, tune, and pulley while the TA Viper has exhaust, intake, tune, and pulley.

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Dodge Challenger Hellcat SRT Takes on F16 Falcon in Race!

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Dodge Challenger SRT vs F16 - SRT DealerNY
I am all one for thinking outside the box for races, but I think Top Gear may have caused everyone to have to get outrageous on occasion. Take the new Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, praised for its extreme horsepower, and what it was put up against. If you ever debated between getting a Challenger Hellcat SRT or a F16 Fighter Jet, then I have a video for you.

Yes, that is an absurd thing, but never let it be said that for all my complaining, this is a guilty pleasure. The guys at /Drive decided to put the Challenger Hellcat SRT up against the Fighter Jet to see what would happen, but they didn’t plan on having the race during a monsoon.

That causes the Challenger Hellcat SRT to have initial trouble achieving the full potential. It’s no question that once the F16 gets up to full speed, it will pull ahead of the muscle car. The question to ask is how will it fare in this terrible, wet weather and how much can it gain on the fighter jet before it reaches full takeoff speed?

Watch the video and see for yourself how the Challenger Hellcat SRT does against the F16 Falcon:

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