OK. I think a few facts got lost here.... Let me see if I can clear up a few things here.
1 - Stryker red has turned out to be a PITA for SRT, not just for those who ordered the car. The paint process has ended up taking the same amount of time it takes to paint 3 complete Vipers and that was not anticipated. You can imagine now why the paint costs so much. SRT is not pleased obviously about the fact that they cant paint them as fast as they would like either. They want to see their customers happy obviously.
2 - Why does paint time matter? Well, with a small hand built car line, that equates to fewer other cars being painted in a week. If you don't paint enough cars to keep the just in time delivery line going, production stops. We must all remember Vipers are not an assembly line paint process where they paint 1000 in a day!
3 - As is the case, Stryker red cars have been limited to 1 (maybe 2) per week due to trying not to crash production. Stop and think about this people. There is 52 weeks in a year. That is only 52 cars. And at that, we are already partially through the year. Has nothing to do with 800 as mentioned above.
4 - As for Ralph, it is not a matter of him wanting to support Canada or not. Chrysler and Chrysler Canada are two different companies (meaning he has no say really in what they do), not to mention it is not his job to sit and dictate how many cars are allotted for what country. And for the record, he does very much support Canada and his roots in Montreal.
5 - As for allotment, don't forget there is USA (by far the largest Viper market), Canada, and Europe. Not to mention any other region SRT is wanting to expand into. Thin out say 50 cars that are in high demand and not many people will be getting them.
6 - DO still go to the auto show. The Chrysler booth is fantastic and one of the best in years! Was there last night and was very proud!
7 - Lastly, as for Ralph on Twitter, he is very good at responding, but do remember he gets hundreds of messages a day. I know he does try to get to as many as he can but he is only one man trying to run a car company; and raise a family.
On a different note, it is very nice to see so many Canadians representing here!
You guys all understand when I say, is it spring yet!!!?
