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Dodge Offers Viper Fans More Paint Options for a Unique Look

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Dodge is giving Viper drivers more choices in the production of their favorite supercar.

With the 2016 model year, Dodge will now be offering matte-finish exterior paint for the Viper.  This means fans will now have more than 50 million different and unique looks to choose from.  That list is made up of more than 16,000 unique color options and more than 48,000 strip combos.  First prize goes to the person who uses a sprinkle of every color and stripe.

“The Anodized Carbon Viper was the first-ever use of this unique metallic matte exterior color by FCA and helped further the trend in automotive matte finish exteriors from the factory,” Tim Kuniskis, President and CEO of Dodge and SRT brands said.  “Now, by adding 8,000 new matte finish options to our high-end, hand-built hand-painted super car, we’re continuing at the forefront of the matte paint trend by offering so many variations, colors and even a metallic finish, all of which give each ‘1 of 1’ Viper an even more unique appearance.”

These new matte finish Vipers will be available for order in July.

Dodge is certainly taking steps to constantly make the Viper experience one of the most unique for drivers.  The amount of options and varieties in look means that no matter how many Vipers are on the road, it can still be a special little snowflake in the crowd.

To find out more about the Dodge Viper SRT, contact us at Bayside Chrysler Jeep Dodge and let us know. Make sure to check out our new and used line-up on our website. Download our mobile app to your smartphone device to keep up to date on special offers at the dealership. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more auto news.

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.

To find out more about the Dodge Viper SRT, contact us at Bayside Chrysler Jeep Dodge and let us know. Make sure to check out our new and used line-up on our website. Download our mobile app to your smartphone device to keep up to date on special offers at the dealership. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more auto news.

Dodge Introduces New 2016 Viper ACR

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2016 Dodge Viper ACR

Dodge can’t help themselves when it comes to building cars with massive amounts of power and speed.  Just look at how much buzz the Hellcats generated when they put out the horsepower on those babies.  Not to be shown up at the game it started, the 2016 Dodge Viper ACR is now a thing and it is claiming to be the ‘Fastest Street-Viper.’

The Dodge Viper was always intended to be a supercar.  Now it just has to work a little harder to keep that title with other vehicles now competing against it.  That is where the 2016 Dodge Viper ACR comes in.

Tim Kuniskis, Dodge’s President and CEO, presented it during a tour of the FCA’s Conner Avenue Assembly Plant where the Viper is produced.  According to him, the Viper ACR is the fastest car they’ve made in the history of the company.

To pull off that incredible feat, they added new and improved aerodynamics to the Viper as well as used lightweight materials like thin carbon fiber and an aluminum body.  This helps the Viper ACR achieve a top speed of 177 mph. That is technically lower that the SRT Viper’s speed of 204 mph, but Dodge says that with the added downforce of the ACR’s aerodynamics, the ACR will be able to blaze past the other Vipers.

It is exciting to see the Dodge brand really taking their new mission statement of producing the top-level vehicles for the Fiat-Chrysler family.  The new Viper ACR seems to be making certain that Viper lovers don’t feel their supercar is being left behind while the muscle cars battle for supremacy.

To find out more about the Dodge Viper SRT, contact us at Bayside Chrysler Jeep Dodge and let us know. Make sure to check out our new and used line-up on our website. Download our mobile app to your smartphone device to keep up to date on special offers at the dealership. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more auto news.