SPEED TV's Test Drive: 2013 SRT Viper

[@TheSearchandfind]

Thanks to Speed and Tom Kindall, Now I pretty much know the SRT Viper inside and out with all the technical specs; and I'm not just talking about engine specs either. Another Tumbs up from me.

[@mattpenner420]

no way does it look better than the c7. they are both very nice. i didnt like the back end of the viper at first. but now its starting to grow on me seeing it from different angles

[@mitch2183]

Wow, I really like how they revamped the entire car, especially with new technologies. Makes we want to trade in my 01 viper for this one!

[@TomazHilton]

I just learned alot of new things from the this TD of the Viper, especiallly about the Uconnect and Interior!!!

[@MojeYTube]

WOOOWW!!!!!! THIS CAR LOOKS SO PERFECT!!!

[@Averylawfirm]

Dying to get behind the wheel of the SRT10!

[@ayn777rand]

Love this too and also Motor Trend's Video of SRT Dodge Viper.

[@95blckfirebird1]

Awesome episode. I'm mad I missed the premier on tv lol.

[@NoChaserNoChaser504]

Great great great review, way better than motor trend and I'm a die-hard MotorTrend fan

[@hudsonensz]

As a car photographer I was pleasently surprised to see one of these close to Dayton ohio. Unfortunately it was black though, not its best color. What a sick car my favorite car other then the 458 italia

[@Goff86]

man these cars chasing each other look so awsome!!!

[@abroome11]

WOW! I don't think I've ever seen a video review without one dislike, amazing!

[@BlakesWrld]

New viper is badass

[@TheSpartan180]

Forgot that bit. Sorry. You know what I have always wanted to know, why are oval courses so popular in America?

[@TheBizzle90]

I dont know when, I dont know how.... But Im gonna own this car and Im going to show off when I drive it. Sorry :)

[@sheister]

Is it weird that I can look at this car, and actually kind of see the Halle Berry inspiration?

[@TrailnTriggerTV]

I envy those dudes. My. Dream. Job.

[@ReticentIndignation]

Also realize that the engine was chosen and the car remade around it. Some of the designers think the V10 is iconic Viper and so with that in mind, the engineers did many things to make the car what it is, 3300 lb curb weight, insane torque with enormous and sticky rear tires/wheels, etc. Despite your narrow view of what is impressive, the new SRT Viper is pretty impressive. I'd venture to say there's some bias in your view of what is impressive. Remember the price point too.

[@jordanmichael9652]

My next car!

[@sherwaynemorrison1301]

VIPER!!!

[@L3ChUg4S]

I LOVE BOTH CARS THE NEW VIPER AND THE NEW CORVETTE! :)

[@TrailnTriggerTV]

not the only car with tc or stability on the steering wheel. first gen cts v did

[@Antoniocool86]

Amazing car.

[@ordunajettagls]

Whats a neck breaker a Viper or ZR1?

[@iPROFITDON]

All of those kits are street legal and will last longer than any Viper Hennessey has ever built. Hennessey is the buisness man of the Viper world, but anyone who really wants a fast Viper would never take their car to him. Should look up on the stories of him chopping up customer cars and swapping parts from car to car. Horsepower has very little to do with if a car is street legal or not :}

[@HIMI2003]

nice

[@amirkazemi2517]

ram trucks are pretty awesome

[@xVIPER94x]

You're right in some ways, that engine probably does have more potential, I'd be willing to bet they're holding the reigns a little bit on the power output. But it's power to weight ratio is outstanding as is, 640hp is plenty. Most cars can't say they make that sort of power without forced induction. And the torque specs is what really shows with the displacement. It has more torque than any naturally aspirated car on the road today.

[@chrcowan]

The Viper has had ABS since 2001.

[@Blackneck1994]

9:07 Then you'd be back in the traditional Viper days! No driver assists! That's what I've always loved about Vipers. Pure bred drivers cars with nothing but a big powerful engine sending power through a 6 speed manual and RWD. That's all you need!

[@Stag_Stopa]

Cars like that are truly missed! Even sport cars todays are heavy, bloated with electronics and filtred. There is no other car that is as pure and powerful at the same time. I always have to laugh when I think about Porsche - rolling supercomputers ... without 4WD, PDK, PASM and all the other crap this cars would be way more uncontrollable and overpowered than even the Gen 1 Vipers were :-D I can't understand why lightweight, powerful, manual RWD cars aren't offered anymore ... the new Nissan Z would have been great if they just would have dared to put a real engine in. Same goes for Mazda RX-9 Concept - they're just too anxious to make it real :-D

[@dragoonuvl]

The Viper was never designed to be an engineering maverick. It was designed to make a statement. To uphold and recreate an image loss in the fuel crisis of the 70's and 80's. The Viper does this well. The Corvette is designed to cram pack as much technological advancements with the lowest purchasing price.

[@mopardriftking4473]

of course...

[@ReticentIndignation]

That's cool. I like it it the way it is, although I wouldn't disagree with twin turbos.

[@5637718]

LOVE THE CAR !

[@MrSouthvalley]

@thybigballs is calls refreshed plus they might tak out a convertible version of this car ill prob get this model and the 2015 one as well

[@xVIPER94x]

Its the ACR. The question in, what will they do to it? Hopefully a power boost (not that it needs it but it would be awesome), definitely an awesome aero kit, new tires are said to be on the way (better Pirellis to beat the Michelins, SRT can't get Michelins), and not to mention better brakes, suspension, etc. Basically, it's going to be wicked fast and take a whole lotta records just like the last ACR.

[@phantom5573]

My sentiments exactly.

[@TheSpartan180]

You know what, I have literally no idea. Roads in Europe are less straight, there are more twists and turns and the cars have to adapt to this. So cars are build to handle better which led to the development of the "hot hatch" which is extremely popular in Europe. This should translate into motorsport thereby forming F! which originated in Europe. The handling of cars, the skills of the drivers were thoroughly tested which made the sport exciting and technology developed was put back into cars.

[@jdmtoyota7079]

My favourite car, and the best muscle car

[@TheCrEaSe44]

pretty sure he means the "new" vette...not the one in 53.......

[@Inklebonker1]

Wow i did not know that. I thought it was GM, Ford and Chrysler to blame for Tucker having not as much credit as it should have.

[@Inklebonker1]

I found an article discussing it on google. Just type in: "ferrari tells srt not to exceed power to weight of f12" and youl get plenty.

[@mia1shooter]

Corvette and Viper is on same team, VS Euro cars!

[@rcghalohell]

I want mine in black, with red stripes

[@SClassFinalFlash]

from the front angle I swear the viper kinda does look like the snake coming at ya!

[@mia1shooter]

il take the red one, thank you!

[@adismajor]

black thanks

[@DominionSinist]

Looks Like a Viper to me.

[@rawrghblarghwaurgh]

It's a different kind of power delivery & design. Vipers powertrain isn't about revving the piss out of it to get power at the top of the RPM's like some of the smaller supercharged/turbo engines out there. It's a brutish, if a little bit unsophisticated, meat and potatoes hammer that has enormous power at ANY gear and ANY rpm's. Thus a higher redline isn't that important. Also, Top Gear has spread this myth on engine displacement = weight. Other than efficiency hp/liter is mostly irrelevant.

[@spazysmalls]

i always wondered how you can speak to some one else or a group of other people while driving like that with out using a phone, any one know what system that is ?

[@CodysCarConundrum]

Sorry for this really late response, but I think I have two possible answers for you. Answer 1: The Gen 5 Viper has a 8.4 touch screen with the same Uconnect system in other FCA products such as the Challenger, Dart, 300 and so on and so forth. So what they might've done is connect their phones to the BlueTooth system and do a sort of phone call from the BlueTooth system. Answer 2: They probably had some Walkie-Talkies in each car and put them on the same channel so that they could talk like this.

[@spazysmalls]

awesome bro thanks

[@CodysCarConundrum]

Np, glad I could help :)

[@sebastiantolvanen9590]

Srt viper is very nice car!

[@fuqui035]

They make it look easy

[@7123RUK90]

How many cars are making 100hp per liter and are naturally aspirated? Also, how many of those cars are making 600 ft/lbs of torque naturally aspirated? There are different ways to make horsepower. The GEN V Viper makes 640 horsepower with room to grow.

[@hatebreed79]

parent company fiat wouldn't let the viper have a better hp/weight ratio than ferrari. i do believe it is 4.9 lbs./hp. that puts it right behind veyron and the f12. there is a lot left on the table with 8.4 liters

[@c.vdh.2899]

Everything on this car is better than a Corvette.

[@VerisimilitudeDude]

Even better than the C7 Z06? I don't know about that... They're pretty close in looks and performance.

[@c.vdh.2899]

***** Yes, I think it is. The SRT looks much much much nicer.

[@m.m14433]

***** I think the Viper looks much nicer then the Vette.

[@VerisimilitudeDude]

VDHcarspotter yiwei maximus14433 Really? So you don't think it looks like an over sized clown shoe?

[@m.m14433]

Lol def not. Seen only two in person and theyre even sexier up close.

[@BloodstainedSinner]

And that's the same concept behind oval tracks being popular in America. We have very long, wide, open highways, and just about every road in our country is 2x wider than the roads in Europe, along with being straighter. Although, we do have IndyCar, which still races on oval tracks, but also races on some of the same tracks as F1, as well as a lot of road courses.

[@gundamsentinel959]

The 2010 ACR beat the 2009 corvette at laguna seca. The thing that makes the viper interesting is that even with its lack of racing technology its still holds some of the best times in the world. Do yourself a favor and look up the nurburgring and laguna seca track times and you'll see the viper cracking the top five against cars that are much more "refined". And as far as laguna seca track the viper has the fastest time on it :)

[@mattpenner420]

i didnt say it was a measurement for fuel efficiency

[@Blackneck1994]

Dude I'm a big GM guy and I absolutely love LS engines, but the Viper has always performed better and they are much better quality cars. The exception is the new C7. The build quality of those is definitely on par with the Gen 5 Viper. But, until we know for sure the performance of the (hopefully) upcoming Z06(7) or ZR1, the Viper is yet again the faster of the two. Mark Reuss of GM said they haven't even been working on a faster variant of the C7 at the moment. Viper ftw.

[@ChrisThaKidd9]

Viper!!!!!!

[@Jacjas3]

The only one off the top of my head that does that is the McLaren F1. 6.1L at 618HP. Other than that you end up with a lot of 500HP 6L engines. Maybe it was just someone saying only non-US cars can be supercars...?

[@bryanpablo12]

The only problem is the fiat is limiting the viper because they don't want to make Ferrari look slow

[@MasterChief0000117]

1st who r u talking to(my bad if ur replying to vid, haven't seen all of it) 2nd the corvette was in development since 2007, while the viper since 2010, the years u said is which one came out on the market first

[@V8Supercar1]

Yeah but your jetta doesn't make over 600HP. Chevy Camaro V6 and even the Ford mustang V6 make 100HP per liter. But they dont make 600HP. HP cost money if you are gonna do it reliably.

[@mattpenner420]

its not about dumping more fuel, its seeing how little can be used and how much horsepower can be created per liter. so hp/litres are important/nice to know to be able to compare to other cars. but yes hp/weight ratios are very important

The C7 looks soooo much better...

[@BloodstainedSinner]

Why are circuits so popular in Europe?

[@Inklebonker1]

SRT was told by ferrari to not let the power to weight ratio exceed the new F12. If you wanna get mad, get mad at ferrari.

[@Verification11]

I love corvettes and i like the new c7, but i can't argue with that, viper is a better looking car this generation, previous one i would say at bar.

[@TheSpartan180]

That's one way of putting it.

[@ReticentIndignation]

You may or may not know this but a car's total displacement does not necessarily reflect how physically large the engine is. For instance the Corvette Z06 engine which is the N/A 7.0 liter may be physically smaller than the 6.2 liter engine in the ZR1 simply due to internal surfact area. Point being, this 8.4 liter Viper engine may be even lighter than the ZR1 engine, albeit most likely with the supercharger attached. I'd have to look it up, but this is hypothetical. The V10 is all aluminum too

[@user-sq7mw6jr2y]

Its nice to see a black man as the president and ceo of something that big..

[@iPROFITDON]

Hennessey? UGR is making over 1700hp and 1300ft/lbs. ART over 1800hp. Drummond/Heffners is making over 3000hp! There isn't another car that can make big power like a Viper.

[@FuzzBall1616]

is the "G" in GTS crooked at 21:22? lol

[@V8Supercar1]

This is the first time I've read someone say that a car has to make more than 100HP per liter in order to be a supercar. lol Thats just silly. What advantage does that even give a car? 100HP per liter is a nice attribute to look at. But it doesnt give you any advantage. Especially considering the fact that OHV engines are lighter than smaller DOHC engines.

[@JackoReaper]

why does everyone criticize Dodge on every car they make.

[@kathleencarey5475]

That's a history lesson not a car review!!!

[@409mx]

Looks nothing like a corvette. And thank goodness for that.

[@rickd6067]

The Viper is pure SEX!!!!!!!!! Absolutely beautiful, and remains the King.

[@richards.4409]

Still, the ZR1 is FASTER. Enough said.

[@hemidesign]

and don't forget, the Nurburgring fastest lap record by Viper ACR (7:12).. Btw, where is the Vette?.. LOL

[@mattpenner420]

i didnt say they were.

[@flyingfromtheearth00]

I find lamborghinis look better than vipers and corvettes

[@martindeleon9863]

The new GT500 makes more thank this

[@brenjimin]

Plus, it was never a $40,000 car with basically $70,000 in options.

[@bptryp]

It"s kind of impressive A base model Viper matches the most extreme Corvette

[@techgeek5212]

An issue comes with Chryslers ties to Ferrari through Fiat, the Viper cannot have a better power to weight ratio than an F12 for political reasons. The 8.4 is one of the strongest engines on Earth and could Easily make 800 HP, with tuning and a new exhaust and adjusted timing. It's not that it cant.

[@DEMediaDrive]

I want a white Viper GTS-R with chrome 20s...

[@rickd6067]

What most people don't know is that the Viper GTS-R (race cars) have nearly 200hp LESS than the street car! This is because the sanctioning bodies (IMSA, American Lemans Series, etc) restricts them. If you could see the size of the tiny little air tubes the Vipers are breathing through you wouldn't believe it. The Corvette team cried that the Vipers were "too powerful" so the Vipers are now restricted/choked. What a joke.

[@Inklebonker1]

Yea im a subscriber of fastlanedaily. That really ticks me off about Ferrari. I knew something wasn't right with the new viper. 8.4 liter OHV v10 with only 640hp? It simply doesn't make sense. Ferrari does this crap too much.

[@ramshaar2597]

I am real sorry for them this car should be more and more better but they stop here no more vipers ..........

[@TheTexasViper]

I'll stick with my fully customized Gen1!

[@djsinatra100]

The thing is, turbos, overhead cams, etc. add weight! HP per Liter has no bearing on performance, it's all about power/weight. What yous should be asking yourself is why the Aventador with it's "smaller" engine weighs 200lbs more than the Viper.

[@Dannyfrenchsfp]

story of mopar's racing history... always too powerful and they get choked off. its upsetting as a mopar guy.

[@V8Supercar1]

Ferrari cars these days also make well over 100 HP per liter. The motor in those cars cost 100k alone.

[@cardude1992]

i dont think Fiat has any say in the Viper. It is a Halo car for chrysler and the normal rules that apply to other cars dont apply to the Viper. Cars like the Dodge Dart generate revenue and profits, Viper barely generates any profit compared to that car, neither will it affect sales of any sort of ferrari since they are all made in limited numbers and have a huge price gap.

[@TheSpartan180]

ONLY 640hp from an 8.4l V10!

[@24Jbond]

Viper do what you want.

[@yockprog]

I don't like hp/liter. i will try to tame those beast. It's simple, get money and put huge turbo. Italian DOHC are more "fragile", you need more maintenance cost for your 700+ hp engine. The American OHV gain awesome torque, more durable, high capabilities and also: hard to be tamed. /watch?v=i6ogKV3bFkU

[@Inklebonker1]

Ive seen. Honestly, I hate seeing that type of attitude from automobile manufacturers. Remember Tucker? Innovative groundbreaking and every other car manufacturer did the most to shut Tucker down.

[@andytwon91]

Looks like a killer. But heavily favors a Ferrari