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Originally posted by integra818
In my opinion, the viper should'nt even be called a sports car. I saw a documentary on t.v about the dodge viper, and I was suprised at how that car is built, from what I've heard, it's a dodge ram engine blueprint, just re-designed with 2 extra cylenders.
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No, it is designed off of an older engine, not a design out of the Ram. All I can tell you is, no duh, what do you expect? It is a pushrod design, that is OLD technology. The Viper engine is by no means designed off of an old truck engine. Let me guess an Integra is a sports car?
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Originally posted by integra818
It's built with a mostly fiberglass body. Fiberglass body, an it's still that heavy.
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It is lighter than a lot of other sports cars, and must I stress that most of the weight comes from the large engine and the trasmission. Also, the Vette is also made of fiberglass, and so are a lot of cars used in racing.
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Originally posted by integra818
I don't wanna mention hp per liter, people are tired of hearin that $hit, you already know what kind of hp per liter the viper has.
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I am so sick and tired of hearing that term, it is meaningless. Tell me what that proves. I don't see Honda making V8s with 100HP per liter. I don't care about this as it has no meaning. If it did, you can eat it because the Hemi has the most power per liter of any engine built, and that would be over 500HP per liter, so sod off.
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Originally posted by integra818
Back to my main subject, the viper shouldnt be called a sports car because, well, porsches are faster, and so are ferrari's. And don't tell me that vipers cost less, I already know that and that doesnt matter, price aside. The reason I don't like the viper is because of the terrible handling. Handleing is a sports-car trait which the viper lacks. And how much R&D is behind the vipers engine? Not as much as a porsche, that's for sure.
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Let me tell you something, a Viper cost a boatload less than a Ferrari or Porsche. Dodge could make the Viper as refined as those but then it would have to jack up the price even more that it already is. As for handling, no it isn't a grocery getter. It is a track car and the handling is less forgiving. Sorry you have to actually be a good driver to to handle one. I guess Dodge doesn't want idiots just going and wrapping their new Viper around a tree.
You are clueless my friend. Do some more research before you go mocking a car that dominated LeMans in all the classes, and one that still dmoinates GT races. Don't base your, so called, knowlege off of what you read in Motor Trend or hear from people on the street, get some real knowlege.
