2013 Dodge Viper, the return of the snake
The announcement comes exactly five months after the last vehicle of the previous generation halo car rolled off the Conner Avenue production line. Dodge President, CEO and head of design, Ralph Giles, said the Chrysler board had given the Viper the all clear, and development was on track and already well underway. Despite the brand’s links with Fiat SpA, Mr Giles denied the new Viper would be based on any existing vehicle and would not borrow either the structure of the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione or a Ferrari engine. He did confirm that Fiat’s expertise in vehicle dynamics would be drawn upon, and admitted the new Viper would have stability control to make it “a more forgiving car to drive and accessible to more people”....
The Dodge brand CEO, Ralf Gilles, has confirmed that the Viper will return in 2012 as a 2013 model. This news comes to us as a surprise considering the production of the Viper stopped recently putting to rest an era of the meanest snake in the United States. The good news is the Dodge Viper will be back but the news that may not sit well with some of the Viper fans and true gear-heads is the infamous 6.4-liter V10 engine may not return as the powerplant for the 2013 Viper. Gilles said the Viper surely will not just ‘borrow’ an engine from its new parent company Fiat, which owns Ferrari. Maybe we will see some type of derivative of a Ferrari engine. Some previous reports have said that the new Viper may be a reworked version of the Alfa Romeo 8C which is not such a bad idea if you ask me....
