Get That Checkbook Ready, FCA Could Be Staging A Comeback For The Viper

Following the closure of FCA’s Conner Avenue Assembly plant in place of a historic vehicle collection, the fifth-gen Viper is dead. Done. Kaput. But don’t expect the beloved sports car to be gone for long; rumor has it that Dodge could revive the Viper in the next few years, and it could ditch its powerful V10 engine for the first time ever in place of an even more potent V8.

According to Car and Driver, the Viper will make its way back to dealers (and back into our hearts) by the end of the decade. It will be the second time the sports car gets a rebirth, following its reintroduction in 2012, and just like the last model, it will be extensively reworked.

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MDarringer - 5/25/2018 4:31:07 PM

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Re-aiming it at the Corvette would be the ticket for success.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 5/26/2018 12:16:57 PM

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@MD- If it had debuted with a DCT option it would have sold much better. The take rate on manual transmissions is in the single digits these days, I am sure more than one potential Viper client bought something else just to have a car that can more easily be driven on a daily basis.

MDarringer - 5/26/2018 1:20:56 PM

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DCTs are too fragile. A regular automatic with flippers is better.

A Hemi Viper would have been a great idea.

A Hellcat Viper would have been a great idea.

Both would have needed a slightly revised hood.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 5/25/2018 9:56:04 PM

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Don't call it a comeback...

Foncool - 5/26/2018 8:49:54 AM

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To be built on the Alfa Romeo Giorgio platform! :-)

MDarringer - 5/26/2018 8:58:54 AM

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Which will make it grossly overweight and wrong sized.

PUGPROUD - 5/26/2018 9:23:22 AM

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The Challenger and Charger are long in tooth and crying for a next generation version which FCA has delayed for years due to lack of funding and they are spending money on developing a next generation Viper...I doubt it makes it to market until late in the next decade at best.

MDarringer - 5/26/2018 10:56:33 AM

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It's patently obvious that Sergio thinks Alfa Romeo is golden and that Dodge and Chrysler aren't. So we got the Giulia which is a worldwide sales flop in its segment. No new Challenger, Charger, or 300. The Giulia was followed by the Stelvio which is selling barely better than the Giulia, making it a sales flop in the red-hot crossover market. So what's next? A new Grand Cherokee? Nope! Another Alfa Romeo crossover presumably to do as poorly as the Stelvio and Levante have done.

Meanwhile,

a new Grand Cherokee on the Giorgio platform would be an easy 300K units in the USA
a new Challenger and Charger would come close to another 200K units.

Sergio Maricone is a moron.