slitherv10
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I am sure all of these cute opinions of people that were "on the fence" outweighs the extensive market research which SRT did before building the Viper.
Being one of these apparently looked down upon "new market" folks - ones that want a stupidly fast, extremely high horse power car that also has a beautiful, well appointed interior - I find it amusing. Especially when everyone uses a configuration of the most expensive vehicle with every option checked as the price point.
The Viper simply couldn't compete in the market and be profitable as it was, it needed to evolve. Seeing as the GTS with upgraded interiors has been selling 2:1, apparently people do want a more plush vehicle. But, lets not let reality get in the way of opinions.
I never said you "market guys" were looked down apon. I merely stated an "opinion"as you quoted it was.
Firstly, stupidly fast, extremely high horse power as you call the new viper is in \my opinion/ overstated.
beautiful, well appointed interior, is in your opinion, obviously not in some of ours or Motor Trends. Subjective ofcourse.
Your quote " The Viper simply couldn't compete in the market and be profitable as it was, it needed to evolve"end quote, does not stand. The Gen 1 and Gen 2 vipers were sold out beofre production...most anyway. the 96 GTS was sold only to previous viper owners and the demand was so high they continued production into 97 with @500 more GTS in B/W. The Gen 3's were alittle slow in sales but that was because of style promises and no delivery by Dodge. 06 was better. The Gen 4 cars came out with a bang and sold out early but the 2010 was a bad year in that dodge was to end the life of the viper and only 500 ACR's were to be built and thats it. Unfortunatly with talks of it being revived it slowed the sales.
anyway, th point is those terrible interiors and bad brakes and so on and so on...made headlines and we the viper ppl including you...bought them with our heads held high. So, your quote makes no sense. they were always profitable because the viper was held as a bare bones fighter, not a gloves on fighter as this car has. Thanks for that quote Ray W. Fits like a glove..get it..you get it. The GTS is selling 2 to 1 means what? Means nothing for numbers. So if 300 GTS are sold and 150 SRT's , that means that it was a steller year for sales with 450 cars?...amusing. Sell thousnds of GTS and hundreds of SRT;s and ill be convinced this car was made with us in mind. Not convincing so far. If the GTS had better tires and brakes it would beat the ZR1...lol...bby how much...a small margin...lol..whats that...thats brgging rights,,,beating a competitor by margins....The earlier vipers ...BLEW the doors off the competitors...not by mere margins...comon guys...is that all you need to make this car the king of the street? Not in my opinion. This new Viper would need to leave those guys so far back that it would take years for them to catch up. The same thing that the 96 and gen 2's did until 2006. 13 years later when the ZO6 could compete with it. 13 years !!! Thats fact not opinion. Oh but we have a nice interior now....lol...nice...where do i sign? lol...i would rather keep my GTS and put 40000 into it and blow the doors off that ZR1 and spend half the money doing so...stock or not...who cares...its down to the wire when your racing...not interiors...not brakes, not paintjobs or wheels...its about the numbers. I don't need th newest and most current production car with all the bliing bling you guys all asked for. i speak for most here...
getting hungry again...lol