SRT Vipers Face-Off in Street Race!

SRT Viper

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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The Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT Red Vapor Limited Edition Coming to Dealerships

Jeep Grand Cherokee Red Vapor SRT

Jeep and SRT have put together a new limited edition of the Grand Cherokee SRT called the Red Vapor.

SRT loves to see what they can get out of the cars they’ve been given if the Hellcat models of the Charger and Challenger are anything to go by.  For Jeep, being able to push 707 horsepower isn’t a priority but that doesn’t mean the engineers can’t come up with something creative.  The Red Vapor is a sports performance variant that can get top speeds of 160 mph, not too shabby for a SUV.

The Red Vapor was first shown off this last October at the Paris Motor Show.  It has an incredibly attractive red paint job with a glossy black grille.  The interior includes leather covering everything from the seats to the steering wheel and a back-lit SRT badge to really drive home the notion you just bought yourself a premium Grand Cherokee.

The Jeep Grand Cherokee Red Vapor Limited Edition should be making its way out to the dealership soon.  It might be late for Valentine’s Day, but this is the SRT Jeep for red-lovers.

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Has the Viper Prototype at South Puget Sound Community College Been Saved?

SRT Viper

A while back, there was a bitter story about Chrysler asking a school to destroy their ’93 Viper prototype. Chrysler had loaned out the car but with the knowledge that the auto-maker still had ownership of it. That meant when the company decided the prototype needed to be destroyed, so be it. The school wanted to keep the Viper around to use as a teaching tool for the students. So the school struggled to convince Chrysler to let them keep the Viper around rather than sending it off to be destroyed.

Originally, it seemed that Chrysler was going to stay firm in keeping the school accountable for destroying the Viper. Now, it seems that they may have been convinced to let this one slide.

A graduate of the school, Storm Hudson, started “Operation Save the Vipers” to help keep the Viper prototype at the school. According to Motor Authority, his efforts may have paid off with Chrysler coming around to the idea of giving the Viper prototype to the school permanently.

While the final outcome still hasn’t been decided, it does appear that Chrysler is being receptive to the efforts being mounted to save a classic pre-production model of the viper.

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