Just put 100 miles on the car. Some around town, some highway and some spirited country road. The car appearance is stunning. My wife is a Architect/designer loved the curves and said the front looks like a snake. She thought it was beautiful. It is quite tight and firm on the ride side. Messed with the traction control a bit, but definitely need to play with it a bit more. There is a coil over button in the center console and I'm not sure what it does. Amazingly, no operators manual came with the car, apparently you have to order it from SRT???? Not sure how to turn off all the TC stuff yet either. The car pulls very strong. My GenIII is heavily modified so I can't really compare to a stock Viper. I pushed the car fairly hard but not power shifting through all the gears yet. It holds the curve very well and i felt quite confident taking corners at a good high rate of speed. It set up well and stays nicely balance through the corner and comes out nicely too, a bit heavy out of the corner though.
There is a definite drone at 3,500 and higher. You don't notice it while puttying around town but when driving hard and staying in the upper limit of the RPM's it is very annoying, almost painful. It's not that its loud, just the wrong frequency. Believe me, I love exhaust tones but this is not the right kind of tone. Rolling down the windows helps a great deal, so it must be the resonance of the closed cockpit. A definite exhaust upgrade soon.
The pedals are very similar (if not identical) to the Gen III-IV. For the first half of the drive the pedals were too close. I reached down to adjust them but there was no button. i thought surely there must be a way to adjust. I almost got into an accident reaching around for the adjustment button. My knees were in my face and I was getting upset. I finally found the button on the column, ahhhhhh... This is were the manual would have been nice.
There was a surprise I found in the glove box. A power harness that plugs into the back of the rear view mirror for connecting a buzz fuster, so no having to run wires hither and thar. The interior is classic viper with nicer trimmings, it even smell just like older Vipers. It is snug and you feel a part of the machine. That is one unique feature of the Viper that I hear some complain about but to me it is trademark for the car. Taking it to a car show tonight, so it should be fun. 105 miles and counting
