It wasn't dangerous if you simply understood how careful you needed to be in certain weather conditions in a V10 powered RWD car... I swear, people act like this thing would spontaneously self-combust or something. There was nothing mechanically wrong with it whatsoever, just a bunch of idiots bought it and paid the price for overestimating their own abilities/knowledge.
@@w.e.s.Thats not how it works you potato. Cars dont randomly spin out. Rich idiots back then bought the "new hottest car in the neighbourhood" to show off without realising what the viper was. It had no ABS, no TC, no Air bags etc. It was a racecar for the road and people found out the hard way.
IDK what you were watching, but he seemed just as he does in all his other old reviews, if not a bit more enthusiastic about this than he was about most of the other stuff he reviewed, especially positive for an American car. Besides, this thing isn't that dangerous, it's just the cockiness and overestimation of the driver's own skill that caused most of the accidents with it. Nothing was mechanically dangerous about it.
Ford was actually prototyping electric rangers, GM had prototype electric cars. Can't remember what law or bill, but California (surprise) was working on legislation to reduce emissions. As soon as it failed the electric prototypes were revoked from their leasees and scrapped.
There never was an all aluminium Truck Engine in 1992 Viper was designed on a V8 LA engine, (the LA engine was a cast iron block which had be used in trucks), Chrysler with Lamborghini added 2 extra cylinders and developed an all new aluminium engine with the similar bore and stroke to the Truck engine, hence Clarkson's journalistic comment. Later in 2003 Chrysler/Dodge put the engine into a dodge Ram making it an SRT/10, the ram truck was a 2 wheel drive 6 speed manual.
Correct. There was never an aluminum truck engine in that era. There was however, an option for an iron block v10 for 2500 and 3500 dodge rams of the time.
Joking aside, however, this is how every real roadster is. Today the term is conflated with "convertible", but you cannot "convert" a real roadster. The Viper also had a factory tonneau cover you could put which would protect the interior from the elements when parked, and had a removable section for when you were driving alone
I love dodge is still in the same mindset. Every other company making electric and hybrid nonsense like the new electric mustang and dodge is like fuck it let's put a 750hp hell cat engine in a mini van.
@@aaronvargas4939 yes literally like a week after this they announced to end of the challenger hemi and only electric. Its such a bummer dodge was the last hope for American muscle.
damn this aged really really badly ford and gm still got the camaro, corvette, mustang etc for a few years and dodge is stopping the charger and challenger V8s for god knows what reason
original viper is still one of the most anti-boomer cars out there they cant drive it the steering is set in concrete and you need the foot of an elephant to get it off the line they made it easier to drive through subsequent years but the first few years it was still basically "beta001" lol
Those same people see a wiggle of countersteer from [favorite driver on the talking picture box] and praise the driver as a prodigy with exceptional talent. Seem to treat everything as an on/off switch
Making a boomer joke in 2023 is cringe, not even knowing what a boomer is and making a boomer joke in 2023 is mega cringe. Thinking boomers didn't rip this around when they grew up with Dodge at Nascar is retarded
They only spent 30M developing the Gen 1. (Typical was 300M back then) Early production examples had welded pipe control arms! The Gen 2 is arguably much better, with real electric windows, outside door handles, lockable with key fob, forged aluminum control arms, etc.
