I understand your sentiments in a small way. And sentiments is what it is = sentimental = mental - a lust and a hankering of things and times gone by.
But what is it specifically you want? On this board, it is all..... I want this, I want this, I want that, no I want this......lots of opinions but pure schizophrenia....no wonder the SRT boys were confused, and the gen V came out with change everything....but change nothing. It goes back to my saying which Bob Lutz says.....customers don't know what they want until you give it to them.
Don't forget that in my world SRT should be the development division of the organization where they test market and experiment new technologies etc (I mean it doesn't matter if a few of you genteel folks on here get grilled, lost, does it....lol.....the gene pool diversity joke improving the breed....lol)
I think it is great that you enjoy a "I enjoy having a 640HP, N/A, RWD, manual exotic too much" and the 300 or so others who have laid there money down, but that doesn't help the brand survive when they plan for 2,000.....and 2,000 is a good number to make and still keep it exclusive.
This technology is on the way....Toyota is going to be selling to the general public a Fuel Cell car in a few years, which this technology was an interim step towards and kids in 50 years time will be tuning Fuel Cells not engines where big parts of it go flying up and down, then come to a dead stop of every revolution of another big piece that goes flying around. Asia is now developing the technology (helped by their gov) that used to come out of US Government funded research labs. Lawrence Livermore, Argonne, Bell, etc....while the US tax payer decries any increase in tax's to fund these research establishments, and healthcare to young kids that could make the next great breakthrough whilst employed there.
But in 50 years time the World Government with its headquarters in Shanghai, will make sure that Piston engine cars will be outlawed, never to be run again except if converted to Hydrogen as the average world temp has risen by 5 degrees. So a Viper that wants to run will have a big Hydrogen tank sitting on the back, whilst youngsters don't give it a passing look as they fire up their equivalent 800 hp, fuel cell cars....I mean adapt or die. I mean America isn't adapting in its thinking, moving forward, and this board expresses it so adroitly, as you want and hark after the same ole, same ole....
I mean "lead or get outta the way"....instead we are being pushed out of the way. Anyone remember what happened to the UK motorbike industry ? All those great brands like Cotton, Matchless, Rudge, Valocet, AJ, Triumph, Enfield, BSA and lost more....gone because they didn't adapt to what the customer wanted,....not the 300 customers but the millions of customers wanted in Honda, Kawasaki, with electric start, turn indicators, etc
------> VRYALT3R3D so you...."personally"....one of the 300, who has or would like to buy a Viper, out of a country of 350 million, want to keep it pretty much with engine technology that was developed over 100 years ago, but just more of it is, (V10, V12 ?)....bigger is better,....(no wait that is just what all my GF tell me).
I mean this continual vociferous demanding of a product that helps create an illusion of a "Huckleberry Finn" world that has long gone, is quite frankly disturbing. I mean where is NASCAR going to get its new fans in 10, 20, years time ?
Well I could go on.....but I think you get it.....but don't want to see it.
