Edmunds Full Test: 2008 Dodge Viper SRT-10 Coupe
08-23-2007, 05:44 PM
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Edmunds Full Test: 2008 Dodge Viper SRT-10 Coupe
http://www.edmunds.com/insidel...Tests/articleId=122304
[QUOTE]"Brute strength and awkwardness" is a phrase that we heard a lot while growing up at Dad's race shop. He used it to describe a powerful yet ill-handling machine; or, more often, the driving technique of a hero driver attempting to cope with one. Both definitions rattled around in our brain as we traveled to Virginia International Raceway (VIR) to drive the 2008 Dodge Viper SRT-10.
Consider the specifications: 600 horsepower (90 hp more than before) from an improved 8.4-liter V10; 200-mph top speed; and a front-engine, rear-wheel-drive chassis with no stability control.
My God, do they even make cars like that anymore?
Brute Strength? Check
The 2008 Dodge Viper SRT-10 isn't all-new, but the signature V10 lump under the hood is. Serious, meaningful changes have increased the V10's output and improved its fuel economy (and even its air emissions, too). And yes, it really is rated at 600 hp, which peaks at 6,100 rpm. Torque is up to 560 pound-feet at 5,000 rpm
[QUOTE]"Brute strength and awkwardness" is a phrase that we heard a lot while growing up at Dad's race shop. He used it to describe a powerful yet ill-handling machine; or, more often, the driving technique of a hero driver attempting to cope with one. Both definitions rattled around in our brain as we traveled to Virginia International Raceway (VIR) to drive the 2008 Dodge Viper SRT-10.
Consider the specifications: 600 horsepower (90 hp more than before) from an improved 8.4-liter V10; 200-mph top speed; and a front-engine, rear-wheel-drive chassis with no stability control.
My God, do they even make cars like that anymore?
Brute Strength? Check
The 2008 Dodge Viper SRT-10 isn't all-new, but the signature V10 lump under the hood is. Serious, meaningful changes have increased the V10's output and improved its fuel economy (and even its air emissions, too). And yes, it really is rated at 600 hp, which peaks at 6,100 rpm. Torque is up to 560 pound-feet at 5,000 rpm
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Originally Posted by MaxGeek,Aug 23 2007, 06:06 PM
Sounds like even though the viper is wicked fast, its still very drivable without TC.
... I ask Herb Helbig, vehicle synthesis manager for SRT and a member of the original Team Viper development group since day one, if they'd ever thought of adding traction control. "It comes with two," he says, pointing at my feet. "Learn to use them." Got it.
- Motor Trend on the 2006 Dodge Viper Coupe, November 2005
- Motor Trend on the 2006 Dodge Viper Coupe, November 2005
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Originally Posted by CKit,Aug 23 2007, 06:14 PM
The 2006 Viper took 4.9 seconds to 60mph?!!! 
That's pretty slow by today's standards.
That's pretty slow by today's standards.
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08-23-2007, 06:34 PM
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I thought the 08 viper came with Pilot Cups, not the R-compound sports? Oh well, it will be interesting to see what other mags and real people do with the car.
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Originally Posted by cbehney,Aug 23 2007, 06:39 PM
What do you guys think, any possibility of living with this as a daily driver?
