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Is The Dodge Viper Coming Back?

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The poor Dodge Viper.  It was brought back to such fanfare and proceeded to slowly get pushed away as the drivers who wanted power saw the Hellcats and Dodge Demon as the new hotness in comparison.  It lead to the Viper once again being put away with no idea of when it would come back to the auto world.  It didn’t take that long it seems as Car and Driver is reporting that the Viper is making a come-back.

The new Viper is coming back but with some changes.  The biggest change that may dampen the excitement of some fans is the lose of the V10.  The new Viper will be powered by an aluminum-block V-8.  The new engine that the Viper will house is predicted to have 550 horsepower with a manual transmission still being offered.  A second engine option, a second-gen Hellcat engine as Car and Driver puts it, would be offered as a supercharged 700-plus-hp variant.

There is no confirmation of this being a thing, but as the article shows, the upcoming Detroit Auto Show in January would be the 30th anniversary of the Viper’s concept debut and if Dodge and SRT are going to bring the Viper back, you could not ask for a better time to really take advantage of the nostalgia it would generate.

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2016 Dodge Viper ACR Gets Powerful Upgrade from Geiger Cars

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While the Dodge Viper SRT may be getting shelved, that hasn’t stopped anyone from trying to coax the most potential from an already powerful supercar.  The 2016 Dodge Viper ACR is one of the fastest track cars there is.  That isn’t good enough for German tuning company Geiger Cars.  They’ve gotten under the hood and have super-powered the ACR to get it to push even more horsepower.

Geiger has a reputation for their tuning of performance vehicles.  Their upgrades to the ACR include ECU tuned cylinder heads, sports catalytic converters, and a stainless steel sports exhaust system.  It boosts the performance of the ACT’s 8.4-liter V10 engine and gives it 765 horsepower!

The car itself has also been upgraded to help drivers maintain control of all this power.  The “Extreme Aero Package” is a carbon fiber body kit.  All-in-all for Dodge Viper owners or perspective owners, it appears that Geiger has figured out how to really unleash the potential of the supercar.

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Limited Edition Dodge Vipers Sell Out in Just 40 Minutes!

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It’s a bittersweet year for Viper fans.  The Viper is going on ice for a while, but there is also the release of a new limited edition of Vipers for this year.  It begs the question; is the Viper still popular.  The answer to that question is a resounding yes if the amount of time it took for the limited edition Vipers to sell out is taken into account.  All it took was 40 minutes.

Dodge recently announced that it was releasing a very limited run of special edition Vipers to celebrate its final year in production before it goes back on the shelf.  While fans were certainly saddened by the news of the Viper going away again, they made their devotion heard loud and clear.  In just 40 minutes, the limited edition Vipers sold out.

That’s 28 Vipers gone in less than an hour.  For those that missed the window, Dodge has the Viper Snakeskin ACR pre-orders starting in mid-July and will have 31 units available.

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