I f a pickup truck wants to keep up with modern high-performance monsters like the Ford F-150 Raptor R and Ram 1500 TRX, it must have at least 500 horsepower or more. However, whe ...

Stuffing a 500-hp Viper V-10 into a pickup truck is a preposterous idea. So, of course, Dodge did exactly that. Brock, you Heston-hugging hunk of hubris. I've warned you about calling me a weenie.

L ike many of the major auto manufactures, Dodge has some concepts that never made it to production out there. What causes a ...

The car was such a revelation in the 1990s, thumping around town with its giant 400-horsepower eight-liter V10 monster truck engine, and has been modified to perfection in the ensuing years. It makes ...

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 ...

Chicks dig the Viper, plain and simple. We are truck guys, though, and as much fun as we had flossin' the low-flying missile, we would still take the Ram home with us for several good reasons.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Backing it up was a five-speed manual transmission found in the Dodge Dakota pickup truck. With four less cylinders than the Viper's powerful V10, the engine made 220 hp and 188 lb-ft (255 Nm ...