2005 Dodge Viper SRT-10 Copperhead Edition Review - Charming A Killer Snake!

[@johnwjeromejr]

If you look up "Bad Ass" in the dictionary, you'll see a picture of a Viper.

[@mopargm9329]

Definitely

[@juliancrooks3031]

It takes skill to drive a viper like it did when you drove a late 60's muscle car.

[@Mirage8v]

If you drive it with your brain, instead of testosterone, it's actually fairly easy to drive.

[@nathanjoseph4284]

"I hope you end the day with just as many fingers as you started." Awesome! Have a happy 4th of July Zach! 😎🎆

[@eddiefalcon8316]

This is on my list of attainable dream cars.

[@bazilwreckerloughead]

Zack driving a convertible, manual Viper on the 4th of July...does it get any *cooler* than that?!

[@_BAD_MERC_]

I sold my 2004 in '16 because I just never used it. In Florida the interior would cook you alive with the top down and it was claustrophobic and sketchy with it up. Then why even drive it? Even then it was the worst experience in inclement weather for a multitude of reasons. It wound up being almost exclusively a winter vehicle. When I sold it it still had the tires that were on it when acquired in 2008. It wasn't a money pit and I did several mods that weren't performance enhancing. For awhile I was on the fence about a replacement (silver again) but the prices shot up quite substantially. My Bucket List included a drive on The Tail Of The Dragon with it but that was fulfilled in 2018 in a rented Cadillac XTS. Now that I am engaged with a kid the 2 seater dream may not be revisited. My 2004 Mercury Marauder (bought in 2005) only has 57k miles so my taste for a 500 horsepower car will be satisfied with the installation of a supercharger. I like your driving review.

[@stoneylonesome4062]

I think the biggest flaw with the viper was the fact that it was priced into Supercar territory. They should’ve kept the Plymouth prowler as an entry level, v8 powered, analog grand-touring roadster to compete with the Chevrolet Corvette and Ford Thunderbird. Let the Viper compete with things like the Ford GT.

[@colinschmitz8297]

While I like the idea of Plymouth having made a car that competed directly against the Corvette, I have to ask what super car was available at the price of $83,000 in the mid-2000s? The cost of a Ford GT was nearly $150,000 during that time. The Viper was reasonably priced for what it was.

[@BRAINFxck10]

Nah the biggest flaw is the V10...personally I love the V10 but most Americans would've preferred a V8 it would've been easier to drive, cheaper, and sound a little better.

[@wigletron2846]

​@@colinschmitz8297the Viper competed with super cars for half the cost. I think the issue was build quality, parts bin cheapness, etc. I'm not spending 85k to get Dodge Neon interior bits.

[@colinschmitz8297]

@@wigletron2846 if that is your priority more power to you. For what it's worth, the Ford GT used Ford parts bin parts. I've heard modern Lamborghini uses VW corporate parts. I don't see how window switches, vents, and radios matter. The platform is unique, the engine is unique, most of both the interior and exterior are unique. Those parts bin parts are not going to cause the car to fall apart randomly if you drive it like a sports car.

[@scottoleson1997]

@@colinschmitz8297it was more comparable to the Camaro at the time, and not the Z/28

[@colinschmitz8297]

Sharing parts with minivans, neons, and other ordinary vehicles is a good thing especially after the vehicle is out of production. It makes finding parts much easier and much less expensive. Besides nobody buys a sports/supercar over window switches and interior vents. They work fine and they help to keep the vehicle's cost down. It's just something that people in media nitpick about. Also remember that the Ford GT has not been in continuous production during this time. It comes and goes.

[@Mirage8v]

Fully agree, TVR made a massive amount of their own CNC aluminium interior bits. Those sold even worse, so that wasn't the clue. I for one am glad with the parts commonality, because the uncommon parts are ungodly expensive at the moment (headlights for example).

[@wigletron2846]

10 years ago these could be had for around $40k. Those were the days...

[@Badboythatsgenuine]

This thing is the ultimate muscle sports car ever man

[@ericcarabetta1161]

VIPER!!!! 😍🤤

[@bwofficial1776]

Cool car and a unique color. Vipers are all about the power, not so much the interior. Carroll Shelby wanted the Viper to be a modern Cobra. It seems like every few years, Chrysler's executives and engineers get together with a bunch of powder and make something wild like this or the Prowler or the Dakota convertible. It's a shame this car can only be driven on sunny days. I really don't see the point of blacking out the windshield and windows when the roof goes down. Just wear sunglasses and a hat.

[@1524mike]

Zack, you look you are having a great time driving this Viper. Happy Forth of July buddy.

[@HomerJ1964]

To quote the great Napoleon Dynamite, “Lucky”.

[@vado575]

I can see u were enjoying tge viper big time!! Happy 4th Zack

[@bobhill3941]

I loved these when they were new. I love the colour.

[@steveschmidt5574]

This was awesome! Happy 4th of July!

[@James-mw6se]

Nice video I enjoyed watching 🤗🤗

[@kc0lif]

a nice all original car.

[@davinp]

Back then when it was DaimlerChrysler, Chrysler was doing allot of cost-cutting measures on the cars it made.

[@trumpet12345]

ddaimler gutted them and thought very low about anything american except our cash

[@Mirage8v]

Chrysler had been cost cutting way before that (K-series platform).

[@RustyZipper]

That first viper you reviewed was Paul’s from Family Cruising in his Eddie Murphy clone

[@Where2bub]

MERICA!! 🎉 F yeah!

[@Doctor_Robert]

3:00 It is still a pushrod (Overhead-valve) engine... one that's all-aluminum and certainly breathed upon by Lamborghini, mind you, but also remember... this is a Chrysler LA engine (318, 360) with two cylinders added (not really, but that was their starting point). So yeah, less fire-breathing Lambo and more "MURICA FUK YAH" grunt.

[@eddiefalcon8316]

I must say, extra points for the owner who takes his cat in the viper.

[@bricegraham8256]

My boy reviewing something properly raaaaadddd!

[@realityawayfromreality3494]

The excitement in Zacks voice as he intro'd this is a little bit noticeable.

[@gibsonisthename]

Ain’t no Miata tho

[@RustyZipper]

This is a Miata after it got out of ten year prison sentence. All ganged up and tear drop tattoos…

[@markhealey9409]

😍😍😍😍

[@Dankcatvacs]

sorry sir but i have to disagree about the big block part big blocks sounds like a harley what an awesome beast

[@Omar_ZX]

Well it's actually 5th of july And iirc no lamborghini didn't design jack on the engine they just refined aluminium and made it work, ths engine is from a dodge ram iirc just tuned up and modified

[@Mirage8v]

This doesn't have the bass speaker in the waterfall (behind the armrest)? Curious.

[@micahnowalski8521]

In retrospect, a targa top would have been nice

[@mumwifeteacher]

Did the cat rip the top?

[@dave11686]

This screams Merica! Happy 4th

[@dautömötive68plus1]

Probably a long shot but do you know if this car is from west Chester county New York originally ? Guy around the block from me growing up had one just like that.

[@mshadow9280]

No this one lived in Texas!

[@artoodiitoo]

I wish they had made the original Dodge Copperhead instead :3

[@insid3493]

My early guess says that this does not pass the big friggin bottle test. Also, sorry I didn't I couldn't see this yesterday on the 4th when it dropped, I was working a 10 H O U R shift at work. On the 4th.

[@passerati_ab]

Ich mag den Look der Viper sehr, egal ob 1. oder 2. /3.Gen , aber was nützt es mir, wenn ich als großer Mensch nicht reinpasse, öfter 2 Pedale erwische und das Auto nicht gerade aus fährt? Ein Auto mit Charakter darf (muss!!) seine Macken und "quirks and features" :-) haben, und ein hoher Fahrspaß tröstet durchaus über billigen Innenraum hinweg. Aber für mich wäre die Viper nichts

[@User39842D]

I want one so bad

[@FantasticAncho]

Comment for Kyle’s channel

[@6.2_zeus]

Where are you located? I have a 08 gen 4 and Im about to purchase a gen 5

[@ShootingCars]

Just outside Chicago but I travel all over! Email me! [e-mail]

[@Danzel-n3n]

I’ve been thinking about these since yesterday I’ve been thinking about them today as well I said I want to ride in a viper

[@wigletron2846]

Will you be thinking about them tomorrow?

[@dougjones4007]

Steve Earl? Robert Mitchum?

[@Danzel-n3n]

And what more to do a video on then an American car happy Fourth of July

[@jaylonworld]

This viper was fast and furious toyko dift 😂

[@wmalden]

Like I said, not too crazy.

[@mumwifeteacher]

This is the ultimate car for compensating for a deficiency. And judging from the “cat” I think we have a few.

[@tonycrusader777]

Mopar was way behind in power in the early 2000s the cobra terminator would rape this trash with just some bolt ons and a good tune this was 100 hp more and double the price Ford was definitely ahead of the game now everything is blown or boosted

[@RustyZipper]

Ok, you keep your ecoBosted, fart can sounding, plastic oil pan and drain plug POS they make now I’ll be burning my legs in a V10!

[@colinschmitz8297]

Cars should be judged by how they came stock vs. Stock otherwise people will talk up a modified minivan being able to beat a modified Camaro. The fact is the Viper was faster than the Terminator Cobra and almost neck and neck with the twice as expensive Ford GT.

[@RustyZipper]

@@colinschmitz8297 - At least Viper had the balls to slap a gas guzzling V10 in something when the economy was going into its beginning stages of current soft guy era. Which eventually led them into the 2007 Charger for the common man. It’s ending production after a paltry 18 year run, mind you it’s on a clapped out Mercedes chassis if I recall correctly 🤷‍♂️ Meanwhile Ford focused on eco friendly vehicles. MoPar said F it, throw a 707 hp engine in it and give the boys some tiny tires! Let them make smoke 💨 A Viper just screams America 🇺🇸 🍺 where Ford screams pour me a Bud Light and draw me a bubble bath 🛀 🥂

[@colinschmitz8297]

@@RustyZipper I agree. I respect Chrysler for going with a large V10 offering leaving much room for aftermarket modifications (Hennessy more than doubled it to 1100 if memory serves correctly). My only regret is that they didn't actually offer it in civilian versions of the LX cars. There was a brief package where they offered it in the Challenger but that was not street legal. My point is it could be done. That would have really been awesome.

[@BRAINFxck10]

The only trash here is you Bolt ons.... lol you need all that and nos just to catch up to a naturally aspirated motor 😂

[@eS._Te]

any S2000 will laugh at this car :D

[@1524mike]

Zack, you look you are having a great time driving this Viper. Happy Forth of July buddy.