AutoWeek SRT-10 on cover
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GTS Dean
Enthusiast
Thanks,
I'll be on the lookout for it when the packmule arrives at my mailbox on Monday of next week.
I'll be on the lookout for it when the packmule arrives at my mailbox on Monday of next week.
Lawrenzo
Enthusiast
It's a generally good article. Doesn't have any performance numbers to it though. They basically like the car, but say that it was a unstoppable evolutionary type of change, not necessarily good, but destined to happen anyway. They also mentioned the cabin heat, and the need for a wide open road to really open it up as DC intended it to be driven.
Quote "If on an imaginary scale of sports car gentrification from 1 to 10, we were to say that the original Viper is a one and the Corvette Z06 is a 10(not that the Z06 is perfect:just, you know, saying), then the new Viper might be a five. Styling is a personal thing between enthusiast and icon, but to most eyes the predatory Viper look has been toned down, converging on the Jaguar/Aston/Maserati themes ubiquitous to upper-crust sports cars thses days."
Quote "If on an imaginary scale of sports car gentrification from 1 to 10, we were to say that the original Viper is a one and the Corvette Z06 is a 10(not that the Z06 is perfect:just, you know, saying), then the new Viper might be a five. Styling is a personal thing between enthusiast and icon, but to most eyes the predatory Viper look has been toned down, converging on the Jaguar/Aston/Maserati themes ubiquitous to upper-crust sports cars thses days."
It sounds like AutoWeek has finally done a fair assessment. With their stong one sided love for the Z06, it is surprizing that they ranked this great sports car in 10th place. Their ranking of
the original Viper as #1 is right on! Even their ranking of #5 for the SRT may be about right. Since it is an excellent handling sports car with a convertible top AND 500hp, it should be rated at least twice as high as the claustrophobic, fixed roof
Z06.
Thank you AutoWeek!
the original Viper as #1 is right on! Even their ranking of #5 for the SRT may be about right. Since it is an excellent handling sports car with a convertible top AND 500hp, it should be rated at least twice as high as the claustrophobic, fixed roof
Z06.
Thank you AutoWeek!
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by VardaMan:
It sounds like AutoWeek has finally done a fair assessment. With their stong one sided love for the Z06, it is surprizing that they ranked this great sports car in 10th place. Their ranking of
the original Viper as #1 is right on! Even their ranking of #5 for the SRT may be about right. Since it is an excellent handling sports car with a convertible top AND 500hp, it should be rated at least twice as high as the claustrophobic, fixed roof
Z06.
Thank you AutoWeek!
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
uh VardaMan... i don't have the mag, but from what's posted from the previous thread, doesn't it sound like that from a scale of 1 to 10... that they consider 10 a perfect?!
they're quote "not that the Z06 is perfect:just, you know, saying" would sort of indicate that. again, they're not saying the Z is perfect... but i guess they are using it as a standard.
And that when they say that the old Viper as #1 on that scale... I don't think they meant "perfect."
If it really were the case where they felt the old Viper was #1 meaning "perfect" then IMO I would think that it is a slap in the face of the new SRT... to be a car that did not better itself.
Don
Z06
It sounds like AutoWeek has finally done a fair assessment. With their stong one sided love for the Z06, it is surprizing that they ranked this great sports car in 10th place. Their ranking of
the original Viper as #1 is right on! Even their ranking of #5 for the SRT may be about right. Since it is an excellent handling sports car with a convertible top AND 500hp, it should be rated at least twice as high as the claustrophobic, fixed roof
Z06.
Thank you AutoWeek!
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
uh VardaMan... i don't have the mag, but from what's posted from the previous thread, doesn't it sound like that from a scale of 1 to 10... that they consider 10 a perfect?!
they're quote "not that the Z06 is perfect:just, you know, saying" would sort of indicate that. again, they're not saying the Z is perfect... but i guess they are using it as a standard.
And that when they say that the old Viper as #1 on that scale... I don't think they meant "perfect."
If it really were the case where they felt the old Viper was #1 meaning "perfect" then IMO I would think that it is a slap in the face of the new SRT... to be a car that did not better itself.
Don
Z06
Lawrenzo
Enthusiast
After getting the true meaning of Gentrify I now have the impression that this writer has a screw loose or something. He is basically saying that the Viper is way behind compared to the Z06. Now I may not like the new look much, but it's a heck of alot better than the red headed stepchild hardtop Chevy uses as a platform for the Z06
I guess it's business as usual over at Autoweek after all. Now I remember why I just let my 10 year subscription die out!
I guess it's business as usual over at Autoweek after all. Now I remember why I just let my 10 year subscription die out!
Vreracing
Enthusiast
Here's the cover.
Pretty good article.
Torqueasuarus seems like a good description of the car.
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Pretty good article.
Torqueasuarus seems like a good description of the car.
Frank 03SRT
Enthusiast
I think the 1 - 10 comparison relates to sophistication, or as the article states, "sissified", and not their looks or performance. No way either Viper looks inferior to the Vette.
Lee00blacksilverGTS
Enthusiast
For those of you not at VOI take a second look at the picture, it's one of the first to clearly show the way the fenders have been more curvey and ****** up, look back at some of your other Magazines from the last several months and you will see the difference, although I think the one doing the burnout (Road and Track0 looked like this also.
Here's the link to the story:
Sounds like THEY GET IT!
http://www.autoweek.com/search/search_display.mv?port_code=autoweek&cat_code=coverstory&content_code=09071601&Search_Type=STD&Search_ID=678238&record=1
Sounds like THEY GET IT!
http://www.autoweek.com/search/search_display.mv?port_code=autoweek&cat_code=coverstory&content_code=09071601&Search_Type=STD&Search_ID=678238&record=1
Paul Hawker
Enthusiast
Still lots of comments on excessive interior heat issues. Local San Diego paper editor also remarked on heat "coming from lots of areas" inside cockpit.
Anyone have specific information if dodge has found a cure, and just what that cure entails.
Editor said his car was not a earlier mule, but an "almost production" vehicle.
Anyone have specific information if dodge has found a cure, and just what that cure entails.
Editor said his car was not a earlier mule, but an "almost production" vehicle.
Lee00blacksilverGTS
Enthusiast
Clue is in the words "almost production" Cars at VOI were not excessively hot. John Fernandez told the SRT seminars that the first 250 cars would NOT be shipped until they were PERFECT. After being in the car and hearing John talk, I am not worried about this at all, and I do have car on order. As I continue to follow the saga of the magazine tests, I wonder why I continue to buy these rags!
