Dodge To Sell Viper (sob)
No, no, no!
Say it ain’t so! This is terrible news!
Dodge is apparently going to begin negotiations for the sale of its “Viper” nameplate. Chrysler has always been the most anemic of the Big Three, and with Ford and GM both hit hard by the economy crisis, I can only imagine what the situation is like at Chrysler’s big brass. Must be hell.
But this is sad, terrible news, even though it was kind of expected. I had always hoped that Chrysler would find a way to keep the Viper alive, maybe as a low volume, limited production a year type of image car. But the financial strain was apparently too great, and now its the Viper that is under the axe.
This is personally rather distressing for me, as the Viper has always held a special spot in my heart (and that of many others). Though the Viper and Corvette have always blood enemies in competition, I hold them both in equal esteem and adoration. To me, they symbolize the epitome of the American muscle car, that is to say, a no frills, rude, obnoxious, rough, aggressive, and above all, powerful car. The Corvette and the Viper aren’t elegant, they aren’t refined, they have absolutely no finesse— instead they’re just dominant, raw, and beastly, and that scares the crap out of everyone else.
To hear that the Viper, an icon of Dodge and of America, is going to be sold… well, my day just got a little less bright. I hear that it might be sold to a tuning company, or a group of investors, whatever it is, I hope that at least in stays in America (if it becomes the Tata Viper I’ll shoot myself). The look might stay the same, the badge and performance might remain, but it will no longer be the Dodge Viper, and that’s a damn shame.
Filed Under: Car News • Chrysler • Dodge • Muscle cars
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I can not believe that thedodge viper will be getting the axe…. I heard that although it is getting the axe from dodge that saleen is a serious viper so now e will begin to see the Saleen viper s1567 I E and S…. And best of all it will come with the great price tag of 220 thousand basic model and will begin to add in all the great stuff that will make th ecar faster but now also make it out of reach or someone with a good job.. Like it really needed to go any faster well in my eyes may the dodge viper R.I.P. for all my memeries are it are fond and I have loved it dear, but it was to be and forseen when dodge took ths sweet dream out of the great steads of the Lemans and put all thier money into NASCAR Wow ….. Jeff Dunham did say it best ” hey look a left turn…… hey look another left turn…….. Were going to commercial you can come back in 30 minutes, you wont have missed a damn thing
Get over it dude. The cars were not scary but as you said, simply o frills, rude, obnoxious, rough, aggressive, and above all, powerful cars. To place North American pride on these cars is a rather…sad in itself, unless you see NORTH America as such…a no frills, rude, obnoxious, rough, aggressive, and above all, powerful place.