They went back a generation in styling, and tried softening the car to make it more appealing to more folks - this may've alienated the core customer, while simultaneously putting the Viper in a larger competitive set of cars; some of which do that balance better. And, of course, they had a...
Drop SRT and GTS. Make the TA the Viper (and drop the TA handle - though it did work well for Pontiac for a while). Make the fancy interior an option. Make the guy(s) responsible for sending not one but two duds to MT do something else. Introduce a lightweight ACR version with more focused...
Mumzo!! PMUMhenge - indeed a legendary landmark at Laguna! Thanks again for lending me your gloves that day, Ron (the feller still had me covered, though!).
Good point - though maybe best accomplished in private and outside the spotlight of a national magazine? And perhaps they had indeed done some prior benchmarking w/ZR1 - and were expecting a win (why else send a new car up against an old one?). But dig your concept, and would've been cool -...
Was a lose/lose sending a new Viper against an out-going 'Vette. If the Viper wins, well, it beat the "old" ZR1. Oh, and it's a preproduction Viper, so not even a "real" car - and so wouldn't "count", anyhow. And if the Viper loses, well, we're kinda seeing how that goes.
Randy might not be...
Recall Peter Brock (of the Daytona Coupe Peter Brock's) wrote a cool story about that one - how a guy showing up w/his own car on an open trailer with a box of tools and taking it to the factories was at best a throwback to the glory days, and nigh impossible in current era of high-dollar...
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