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The Viper is equal parts awful and awe-inspiring, built to bully roads into submission more than navigate their mysterious ...
Early detractors of the Viper maligned the supercar for having a truck engine under the hood. While it was true that Chrysler was developing a V10 for its Ram truck, it also had a bull in the paddock.
Engineering the production-spec Viper was one problem. The team soon realized that the cast-iron V10 engine from the Dodge Ram pickup truck would be too heavy for a sports car; the Viper’s ...
A 600hp Viper V-10 originally prepared for endurance-car racing unwinds 600 lb-ft of grunt. Will we mortals be able to buy a truck like this? No. And no. Whereas the Viper and the Prowler were ...
What most folks will remember about the Viper is its massive V10 engine, long maligned as a derivative of the truck motor that Dodge offered in its Ram pickups. However, the Viper's V10 engine ...
That aging motor had to go, but be it laziness, convenience, or downright cheapness, the Viper received a truck motor. That said, the engine was sent over to Lamborghini - there, it was re-casted ...
See All 27 Photos Of course, all that stuff is great, but it's what's under the hood that makes this truck truly kick ass. The Ram SRT-10, affectionately known as the Viper truck, is powered by a ...
We all grow up with that car we posted on our bedroom walls. For many my age, it was a Nissan Skyline GT-R, Toyota Supra, or McLaren F1. For me, it was the Dodge Viper. Specifically, a low-res ...
The Dodge Viper began as a twinkle in the eye of Bob Lutz, who was then Chrysler’s president of operations, in 1988. His big-ticket idea started with a question: What if the American automobile ...
It's a brute of a beast and, while it looks like a truck, it packs Viper tech underneath. Most notably, the Viper's V-10 engine has been shoehorned between the front fenders. "It's an amazing and ...
That award belonged to the Dodge Ram SRT-10 that came with the Viper's 8.3-liter V10 engine. The insane pickup truck also came with an aggressive body kit to differentiate it from mundane trucks ...
Huddled in a warehouse-like skunk works in a semi-seedy section of west Detroit (previously the old AMC Jeep/Truck Engineering building), the Viper development project represented something of a ...