Dodge Viper ACR Review // How Is This Even Legal 

The numbers of that would make me cream my pants, but I feel like that ruins the spirit of the car? Kind of like turning a 911 turbo into a drag car. Yes, it can be done, but should it?

@@PhelpsTalks absolutely. Those calvo vipers are insanee. 60-130 in under 3 sec thats insane

U see the tt one with the sequential gearbox on sorted? That thing was actually narsty.

@@zainb2261 lmao yeah, Farah gunned it and flattened by half. Incredible hookup for a RWD car, r888r's or not

There’s a good number of vipers doing 1000+ whp.

I mean I hate dodge as much as the next chevy/ford guy,Mopar is amazing and the viper is Zeus of mopar,possibly to prestigious to put in the same name.

@Chungus Factory This has to be a joke. Sure, if it was something like a Caravan, you may have regrets not getting an odyssey or sienna, but be it a Viper or a Hellcat, you will have fun, even after they break down (which is what I am assuming you were going to use as your argument) because they rarely do. Fiat doesn't screw up pushrod v8s, or v10s, for that matter.

@Chungus Factory not many regrets with a new Viper. Unless you someone who wishes they got a Carrera S for the same price.. boring

@@mikael4126 ya but he knows all about mopar dude. You should listen to him. He watches scotty kilmer and dailys his civic si. But it is not just any civic si it is a one off HE built himself. It probably has a cold air intake and thats it.

@@Sak-zo1ui Damn, dude. You're right. How could I have been so wrong? He possesses the knowledge of VTEC so yeah, have to believe him.

@Pure Cars He's talking on the back of the car?

no you dont.

my diesel 1.5 rental car did 220kph. that viper was on a chill cruise

@@easycomeeasygo8901 gas money fir a fat girl

@@drewcraig6791 km per hr

LMAO 👍🇨🇦😎

@@HITEKSTRANGER oh Canada oh Canada 😆😉ha ha lol love it.... Ya fuck the united states'....

The Nurburgring video 😶

most of that changed, circa 2010... with the old GT500. I think the new top end Mach1 could give the new GT500 (non-track pack) a run. Nice to see the last of the manuals, go out with a bang!

@@drx1xym154 its not gonna come anywhere near this thing in lap times. Its the fastest american car at the green hell and its manual to boot!

@@BalexDawn they had to find driver's on a shot in the dark to set the times. If they actually had the assistance of Dodge for the lap times standards they probably would have if not the record, close to it.

@@SZUSEast1 And the only thing that held it back was the drag and horsepower limit on the fast sections, and obviously the driver has to manually shift. Id love to see the Viper introduced again with a V10 TT and DCT, and active aero

That's straight up amazing, well done

Imagine her driving that acr manual, sheshhh my kind of girl

Yay. Extra respect because vagina. Please spare me.

@@watchandjewelryloft4713 right? Lol

@@erikthefarmer25 it shouldn’t 🤷🏻‍♂️

I feel like the viper is one of the only sports/super cars where it makes every onlooker happy to see it. It's not the snobbish vide you get from other expensive sports/super cars

I don't get why they only make muscle cars now when they can make things like this. Muscle gets old after a while.

I saw on the loop in Birmingham Alabama. The things are beyond cool.

​@@Ota_ku69I'm guessing because they only have about a year left and ots completely over lol. No more muscle cars ever again after 2024 I believe.

​@@Shelikesfutarule34 until the people wake up and realize electric cars are not a viable sollution for pollution

yo thats actually a great analogy

I agree. Even Chris Harris was gushing over this car.

I dream of this car since I was a teen and if given a chance to own it, would be more than happy to see one like this in my garage

I thought official Chelsea FC channel commented and I was shocked

The market certainly has. My plan was to buy an ACR when it hit 80k....... now they are 180k, fuck

Exactly. This car is an absolute monster and somehow they couldn't sell it. If you did get one though you better hang on to it because its value will soar over the next 20 years. Classic.

Right there with you brotha 🐍 I’m proud to own a 2016 GRC ACR E

@@951hellgato awesome!

i'm really glad for you guys. i'm working hard and studying as much as i can to get a well-payed job and maybe afford one someday.

@@birjarualin890 I'm just a regular guy, i saved my money after multiple deployments in the military and bought my first Viper (the one in my pic is my second). Work hard, be patient and you'll get there :)

@@giovanni4304 I wanna trade in my m3 but I wont cuz I don't wanna die lol

so jelly! enjoy

Damn man I seriously wish I was blessed enough to buy one. I'm struggling right now just to get a car that I really want and might end up with a base model older mustang but it's all good. Your living the dream man, love it everyday.

I run my viper behind a sheet of glass and wood frame. Doesn't steer for shit but looks good.

bro does NOT have an ACR

Completely agree!

TV shows are over. Wake up

@Ishaan Tiwari TV shows cost way more money to put out meaning producers take less risk and ultimately just stick to what they know works. Independent stuff like this is more unique, happy to take risk as they can stick it on RU-vid without waiting for a network to agree it and schedule it. In the UK, there is hardly any motoring shows on TV worth watching, more so worth waiting a week for the next show. Top Gear is now fully awful. An hour of 2 idiots and an excited driver playing silly buggers in old bangers. You get 4 episodes then a years wait for the next series. Meanwhile creative content like this showcases real cars interesting reviews and in a lot of cases, pretty decent production values. I could spend an entire evening watching great videos on RU-vid every night of the week. Or 1 hour of crappy top gear once a weeks 4 times then a year off.

Off the roof? Tf

This is their TV show

Gives me the chills i wanna trade in my m3 for this

Foist is a legend. People never mention him.

@@damonfryer8794 get an m5 instead, you will be happier!

@@jaybilis9723 yeah I was thinking about that but I kept my M3 E90s are the last amazing M3 ever made so I kept it and surely imma save up money and get the M5

@@jaybilis9723 buy a warranty! F@#k a bimmer

A brick, gasoline, and matches in one 😂

i mean the zr1 corvette is no joke

@@Louthemailman the great dodge viper ain't no joke either

They’re both good cars. I think they both get the job well done.

The viper is like a chainsaw, the zr1 is like a battering ram.

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Àaqqq try

8.4litre 645hp 😂 guzzler for no precise reason.

@@elvisdjango5920 acceleration my child. It has 600lb of torq. The car was made for the track.

@Cinda Oppenheimer no

@@elvisdjango5920 its a pushrod which means only 1 camshaft instead of 2 and 2 valves per cylinder instead of 4, plus in general have legendary reliability and ease of maintenance

@@elvisdjango5920 Discussing practicality and the Dodge Viper completely misses the entire point.

Same, I always look for a video when I do my cardio and I immediately said yep out loud and clicked.

Same here

Same

Absolute dream car. Manual gearbox, manual gearbox, sidepipes and red flashing speedometer 😍😍😍

Same x4

I have a question as a Viper enjoyer. This guy on another video is dismissing the fact that the viper's engine is one of the most reliable track car engines out there in terms of being capable of withstanding large amounts of boost and being a low stress engine. I'm asking you and more people as to have multiple opinions on it from people who have owned Vipers or atleast know enough about them to include information.

@@DodgeMyViper mine is 100% stock, but it gets it's legs stretched nearly ever weekend, weather allowing. It's a very reliable car.

@@DarkClosetOfTheMind Thanks for the feedback! Much appreciated!

1st gens were known to be killers. 400hp, rwd, manual, no esc/abs, and no rollbar of any kind. A very visceral car.

Famous 1-2 seconds to a pole

as american as it gets

@@psychologicaltirefire8190 no air bags, no door locks, no roof And no compromise

1st gen viper, the Widowmaker

Isn’t there a video out there explaining how cheap it was build??

@@damian4727 i believe you're thinking of the gen 1 viper, which was very simply built.

@@GetOffMyLog I swear I remember jay leno seeing the undercarriage at his garage.He was looking at the X structure and welding.I can’t find it the video.Who knows 🤷🏻‍♂️

@@damian4727 The gen 2 is actually a very high quality vehicle. The gen 1 wasn't built very well but that wasn't the main problem with it. The main problem with it was that it was very unsafe. Safety was the least of dodge's concern when building it.

@@gasolinediesel972 Yeah I remember people doing reviews and saying how unsafe it was.But yeah thanks for the update 👍🏻

I mean there are faster cars, but this thing would scare me more than a Tesla plaid

Doesn’t first gear top out at like 50

@@islami658 i remember switching it around 40, which is insane you can drive in town in first gear.

@@islami658 1st gear get you over 60mph! 😳👌🏽

@@ShawnChess wouldn’t that be bad for the motor though probably safer in second gear

Breed so rare, Viper died due to poor sales

@@sepg5084 🤣🤣but true

@@sepg5084 yeah very sad to see. And of course, now that you can no longer buy a new one, people are just now desiring them lol

a different breed

@@sepg5084 It died mainly due to growing safety regulations.

Either would have sufficed!

How does it do tha.. oh.. hahah

So i am not the only one 💦

NAH FR i said “hold up🤨”

@@3xoticG4m3r 😩

16 actually

@@Ravenlocke118 Is that the Viper's overall history? 30yrs of classic muscle going head to head and winning against European cars. 🥶🥶🥶

It's hard to understand. An 8 liter NA engine must be super heavy for the power it puts out. Another car with a smaller, lighter, but turbo/supercharged engine and with same kind of crazy aero should be able to put out the same amount of power and beat the Viper lap times by weight alone.... Just nobody else bothered to put that crazy aero on their consumer market cars. Sure now we got GT2/3 RS and the like, but it's remarkable this beast of an engine can be thrown around a track this fast and got to set lap records. And all that for less price than a GTR Nismo - half the price of what the performance suggests.

@@Erafune You're ignorant to real engine dynamics as you've clearly never built anything in your life. Or if you did, it was simple bolt--on's. The V10 in the Viper isn't heavy at all. It is very light and smaller than a HEMI. The engine is also front-mid-engine. Something else not mentioned in this video. The V10 is extremely durable and well made. Stock bottom end with twin-turbos hits over 2k HP reliable. Look up Kratos and Juggernaut. Top of the food chain with no disputes on that fact. The main point here is that the V10 powercurve and massive torque allows for it to fully utilize the down force and massively wide rear tires. All of the MASSIVE torque that starts at IDLE is put down to the ground. Flying out of corners.

@Pure Cars Look up Kratos and Juggernaut Vipers. ;)

🥕🐡

@@Ac3Mustang thank you

@@EYTH_Music it really didn't. Didn't even break 7 minutes...

@@Nathan1LE your right but it was the fastest rwd, manual, and american car on the nurburgring

I think the senna would definitely be the fastest around the nurburgring if they timed it

Would've been sub 7 but a tire blew and it was not factory funded... they didnt have the money to keep going

@@bicboi1930 yeah, I wish they had made it. Those guys were very dedicated to hit 7 or sub7

Left tire was dead, the fund cannot afford more time for the session. But it'll take more bites than any production car could ever reach, even gonna leave a mark for a while after automobile electricfication.

@@donnycorn3086 that's because FCA also owns Ferrari and they didn't want to fund the Viper in Nuremberg because it would make the Ferrari Brand look bad.

@@paulj9821 Never heard something like that but sounds interesting

Many different ways to skin a cat, dodge does it with the back of a hammer

@@raymonds7492 Underrated reply

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7:01 Nurburgring time confirms it's on rails lol

It's not "chips' it's "crisps" lol

@@scr3wblu313 no it's not the enemy of the bloods, it's crisps

@@jy5960 oh yeah typeo

it's chips

That was the best part ! Had me dying 😂

Underrated the entire time it was stacking lap records.

Underrated? It's more expensive now than it was when new

@@iwannapoop, underrated meaning it doesn’t get a lot of attention. A lot of people probably don’t even know what the Viper is or that it exists

It's not underrated. It's just that many people don't even know that it exists.

@@gasolinediesel972 it is unfortunate that it is so because this car is actually a monster

V12 Vantage by Clarkson ..

@@bukkuk5949 what

@@bukkuk5949 wtf is ur prnlem racist

2-EAT-V8 😂

17:05 "I'm still a bit on adrenaline"...? Could'nt notice at all though😁

I had to drop my phone for a sec to laugh at it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Pretty rude to denigrate a Miata like that though. Funny, but rude

Miata also spin out in it's lap, according to Thomas

@SynchLy F1 stans are dying of laughter!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@anthonyschroeder521 nobody cares, those cars are just another small sports car that's been around a while

Epic analogy. Or was that a metaphor? Epic!

YES!

It’s better. It’s Canadian.

Look up The Grand Tour

@@leroirobinson-grant5885 Yeeess. -Jeremy Clarkson

@@barucgonzalez717 gran tour was way too overproduced, and would ran a skit/joke into the ground, bury it six feet under, raise it from the dead, before finally letting it die long past the point of being funny. There's a reason their run on Top Gear went for decades, but Grand Tour didn't.

They're already there, or at least past motor trend there

@@DV-ou1yu motor trend top gear is atrocious

Thomas and James already surpassed Top gear. Since throttle house I stopped watching other car channels like carfection, motor trend and top gear, they seem so boring now to me.

@@juanrivera8566 I watch modern day Top Gear for the EV stuff, engineering explained for the technical stuff, donut for the powah, Doug Demuro for "this", and Throttle House because it's the best of all worlds (and most like old school top gear, but more accessible).

Juan Rivera agreed lol. However the Grand Tour on Amazon is amazing too

Ford yea verily dropped yon ball by not doing the Viper themselves. Think of it. The 1996 AC Cobra etc. They came out with something, but it was kind of a bust. Hat's off to Mopar ONCE AGAIN!

They never ran steel or iron blocks in any viper and it shared 0.parts with the truck variant

Correct.

Victims of their own success lol

@@ThrottleHouse Please Review a Mercedes GT Black Series! (Viper ACR did 7:01 on the Nurburgring) Mercedes GT Black Series did a 6:43 in cold & damp conditions (did 6:36 in testing) 6:43 makes the Mercedes the #1 Fastest Production car on the Nurburgring & yes it's Front Engine / Rear Wheel drive beating the Lamborghini Aventador SVJ.

@@JESUS_IS_GOD Just waiting for the 992 GT2RS.....

@@1ce2berg or the mercedes project one

Gotta hit up the guys at calvo lol

Rewatched the 9l viper video by that racing channel for the 30th time after seeing this comment. Dude has 6 tune maps, and map 1 is 1600hp. Ballistic missile

Or they can come here to Denver! Buddy has a blacked out 2600hp ACR with a sequential shifter, it melts faces

@@davidknuckles6330 sounds like Ryan lol if it was TRC or 1320 Video it was his viper

@@Sickwitit18 lol yup, same guy.

The beauty of high displacement engines. You see the HP figure and you go "oh that's neat", then you see the torque figure and you think dodge is out of their minds. Amg is quite similar in that regard. We all love high revving cars, but there is nothing quite like a thunderous, gurgling torque monster.

Do you know how the viper compares to a 911 GT3 (any model year. please state)?

Wait until the ZR1 C8 Corvette comes out

@@MrNinja806 🥱

@@wendigo6667 I've driven an ACR E extensively on the track and a GT2RS once at Thunderhill 5 mile. There is no match for the aero on the Viper even though the GT2 has better acceleration with its 700hp and less aero. At the Thunderhill straight, I was 144 mph braking into turn 1 in the ACR, and the GT2 was 151 mph+, and I wasn't even driving it like it could have been. As for a GT3, I pass them regularly in the ACR at the track, even with very accomplished drivers.

Depends. R8 and whatever Aston Martis has to offer, especially the vantage lineup, is a supercar that's cool to live with. The Viper, however, is an amazing car to die with.

@@donnycorn3086 also, r8 got the lambo v10. people can argue all they want, they will be quiet when they hear it

@@hazardeur eh. Viper's V10 was brought to Lambo to be fine-tuned, since Chrysler owned Lambo back then. I don't see any argument here, like, literally. Volkswagen did a thing, and so did Mercedes. Yes, the SL lineup is built upon the Viper ZB platform, making it and many (SL) AMG cars the Viper's German Cousin. And wait till you hear bout its Italian and British cousins.

@@donnycorn3086 that might all well be but at he end of the day, the r8 revs up to 9'000 while the viper is already done at 6. nothing is beating the feeling and sound of a high revving engine, especially a v10

@@hazardeur that viper v10 has nothing to compete with any other v10, nor does it want to compete at first. it's not even a V10 to start with. so 'shut your commie mouth.' And it's not "nothing can beat something", you just like a high-revving v10 more than a viper engine.

That joke genuinely made me laugh 😂

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The concept of the car was originally V8 until Shelby said "f*ck it add 2 more cylinders". So it took 2 more cylinder to haul even more ass than production supercars around the world. Maybe not that hurt, but still gonna leave a mark for a while after automobile electricfication.

@@donnycorn3086 As cool as that story sounds, it couldn't be farther from the truth. In reality, Shelby *really* wanted this car to be a V8, in order to be a true successor to the Cobra. However, back in the 90's, the only V8 that Chrysler was producing was the Magnum V8 for the trucks, and those were horrible on power. The only engine that made decent power was the Magnum V10, so they chose it to be the base for the Viper V10.

V8EATR

@@donnycorn3086 Shelby didnt make this viper, nor any dodge.

The viper sucks... the viper ACR doesnt...

The viper doesn't get the love of should cause its manual only but that makes it one of the best cars ever made. Takes skill to drive it.

its fair market value has doubled msrp in less than 10 years. people who know, know.

Even Shelby Gt350 is also supposed to be a track car right

@@rohitbchandy5272 gt 350/ 350r/gt500 Zl1/1 le/ss 1 le Ford gt C8 (almost)

@@-_--le3zk GT500 is a straight line car. GT350/ GT350R is for the corners.

Amazing how far American cars have come, a couple of decades ago, literally no American car handled great (As Top Gear would always say), but now American cars can actually handle greatly

@@rohitbchandy5272 ya I really like the GT350

Same here eating Doritos 😂

Is it just me or is there something magical about discontinued V10 cars like the Viper ACR, Lexus LFA and the Porsche Carrera GT?

They do old vs new videos of current and decade plus old version on the same car

@@DefinitelyNotEmma m5 e60, one of the best

@@mak252 if it wouldn't look absolutely horrible, probably.

@@DefinitelyNotEmma you're not wrong.

this should be the number 1 comment

Cleetus McFarland is screaming “Murica”!

the back wing may also function as a bed or back adjuster - depending on how tired you are after the laps! that frigg'n WING is 'uge!!! 'Merica!!!!

Yeah, that number has "just a touch" of importance in our history.😉

Bald eagles ain't going to do shit against a flock of geese!

@@curtiswaters7415 Canadian geese are mean!😂