I Take It Back - I Can't Live With This Car - 2015 Dodge Viper GT Long-Term Road Test

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I Take It Back - I Can't Live With This Car - 2015 Dodge Viper GT Long-Term Road Test

In an earlier post, we said we'd probably be happy driving the 2015 Dodge Viper GT every day. We're revisiting that conviction, however.

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  • kirkhilles1kirkhilles1 Member Posts: 863
    edited April 2016
    Yep, it a brute American car designed to be the Big Gulp of American-ness. Its always has been and always will be a car that is absolutely raw and brutal. This isn't a Corvette. Definitely not for me. I'd take a Model S (certainly a redesigned Roadster) or maybe an upcoming NSX. But, then again, you don't log 100k miles onto a Viper... at least not easily. Its purpose is designed for this. Showing off. Revving it. You'll never see an electric version of the Viper.
  • ebeaudoinebeaudoin Member Posts: 509
    Great post. Sums it up pretty well. As cool as the Viper is with it's no-fudges-given approach to life and that snarly V10, I can count on two hands the number of cars I would prefer to spend $100k on. A Porsche 911, Corvette Z06, Mustang Shelby GT350, or any number of pre-owned models.
  • subytrojansubytrojan Member Posts: 120
    Great storytelling, Dan! And nice close! I'm sure Kurt and his wife wouldn't mind the addition!
  • agentorangeagentorange Member Posts: 893
    I think the Viper is a car you own for a short time just so you can tell dinner guests that you once owned one.
  • bohiobohio Member Posts: 59
    egads, is Edmunds paying Frio by the word? This article could/should have been about 3 paragraphs, rather than a novella.
  • banhughbanhugh Member Posts: 315
    edited April 2016
    Better this than the Yugo in your driveway, lol.
    Make Murica great again. Drive it with proud, and with a bald eagle in the passenger seat!
  • banhughbanhugh Member Posts: 315
    bohio said:

    egads, is Edmunds paying Frio by the word? This article could/should have been about 3 paragraphs, rather than a novella.

    Let the man tell us how he really feels...
  • slick61slick61 Member Posts: 6
    I felt the same way about my 427 Cobra roadster (replica). It always garnered more attention than I liked, & everywhere I went, everyone drooled over it. I had it for 8 years. And in that 8 years, I put a whopping 4000 miles on it. It was too much of a limited-use vehicle. No top, no way to secure it... hot, uncomfortable, & totally not economical... but oh, what fun!
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