A little while ago we wrote about the Viper factory being recommissioned into a museum, that will hold the historic cars originally evicted from the Walter P. Chrysler museum. Now, what happened to the last Viper that factory built? It’s getting auctioned off, in good company. Barrett-Jackson is auctioning the last 2017 Viper built, together […]
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The Dodge Viper Is Dead, But Its Factory Will House FCA’s Historic Car Collection
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Former Dodge Viper factory will house FCA's historic car collection
In late 2016, the Walter P. Chrysler Museum in Auburn Hills was cleared of historic vehicles to make room for Maserati’s American headquarters. The museum itself was closed back in 2012, but the cars were displayed to a select few in the years between. After the museum’s clearout, it was obvious that the company’s 400-vehicle […]
The Dodge Viper Is Dead, But Its Factory Will House FCA’s Historic Car Collection
– The last Dodge Viper snaked its way off the assembly line at Chrysler’s Conner Avenue Assembly Plant in Detroit months ago, never to return. But the facility, rather than being mothballed, is set to get a new lease on life as the home of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ historic-car collection. It could open to the […]
We Say Farewell to the Third-Gen Dodge Viper by Making Good on a 17-Year-Old Promise
– I suppose it’s a sign you have a good job when people ask how you got it. For a lot of us, the answer is pure dumb luck, just being in the right place at the right time. READ MORE ›› – Car and Driver BlogCar and Driver Blog
2017 Dodge Viper ACR – Instrumented Test
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One Last Bite: We Drive an Original Dodge Viper RT/10 – Feature
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One Last Bite: We Drive an Original Dodge Viper RT/10
– My number-one worry was spinning it into a tree. Second to that, fueled by a quarter-century’s collective bench-racer wisdom on the Viper, was the fear that the car would be a shoddily whacked-together animal—no brains, all muscle. READ MORE ›› – Car and Driver BlogCar and Driver Blog
Viper valedictory victory lap: Watch U.S. team's final run at Nurburgring
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been following the attempts by a team of Dodge Viper enthusiasts to recapture the production-car lap record at the Nürburgring. Dodge once held the Ring record, actually not once, but twice, long ago with the previous-generation Viper ACR, but it never went back with the latest ACR. And now, […]
The Last Viper Slithers off the Line; the Ralph Gilles Instagram Feed Makes It Extra Depressing
– If you’re feeling just too damn chipper today and want to bring your spirits down a notch, check out Ralph Gilles’s Instagram feed (@RalphGilles)—specifically his series of multiphoto #tbt retrospective posts about the illustrious life of the fifth (and likely final) generation of the Dodge Viper. Couched within the wistful depictions of motorsports events […]