Epro
Enthusiast
I lent my account out to a friend to see if he had balls to diss the viper in front of the owners and enthusiast themselves. He did it and forgot to mention an important something in his first post... That it was not me posting that!
Now here is his original post that was carelessly put together
First off, I can go buy a vette for only 52k with every single option. A maxed out Viper would cost over 90k. So, with that 38k I have left over, I can add some simple bolt on's, and easly get over 500hp, and get a car that can easly beat out the viper.
Next off, the new vette's interior, verses the Viper. I drove the new viper once and hated the seats. they have almost no support, and are hard as rock. It is extreamly loud, and unpleasent. As for the vette, it is nice and quited, yet can be loud. Yet the seats are nice, and everything is nicely layed out.
Finally, the Vipers proformance numbers. 0-60 in 3.8 seconds with a v-10? Yet the Vette with the new LS2 can hit it in 4.2, and with a blower, it can easly do 3.8, and maybe even a 3.6-3.7. I will still be under the 80k base price when I do this. And in 2006, with the new Z06 vette, it is said that it can hit 60 in 3.8 seconds. I will still have about 30k to spend on upgrades.
So, all in all, the Viper is a bad car. They sell you more than you get, and it just isn't worth the money.
Oh, and one other thing. The warranty. With the viper, it clearly says in more words that if you do a burn out, or go racing, you have voided the warrenty. In the vette's case, you have the same problem, yet I wouldn't mind not having a warrenty for a car only costing 50k instead of 80k.
Ok who is getting sick of corvette owners using the same argument? A mustang can be modded to beat a corvette, can it not? When that's brung up they usually mutter things about weight and other non-sence.
People in the future won't be able to make this argument, because year after year, the corvettes get more expensive! And just a question, what are these mods going to bring at resale, may I ask? Exactly, the viper will hold it's value much better than a corvette on steriods!
As for warranty, it is the same with all car manufactuers... And not only that the viper warranty is better than the corvette! Tell me, Why would GM or Dodge give a warranty to a street racer who abuses his car more than his girlfriend?
Duhhh!
And now my friend seems to be comparing cars that don't exist!
Yet the Vette with the new LS2 can hit it in 4.2, and with a blower, it can easly do 3.8, and maybe even a 3.6-3.7.
And a 89 prototype will still be able to school it! Well since he says that, then let us bring the SRT/10 Coupe into this! 600 HP vs 400 HP .... Simple bolts on won't get you anywhere.
If your comparing cars, you compare cars STOCK. I don't want to see a 92 RT/10 being compared to a 2020 Corvette that doesn't even exist.
For those who actually still think that was me that made that post, ya'd think I'd change my profile and remove the "All day I dream about vipers" part?
I've waited for a long time to post this... And I thank Vipermad for re-instating me.
Now here is his original post that was carelessly put together
First off, I can go buy a vette for only 52k with every single option. A maxed out Viper would cost over 90k. So, with that 38k I have left over, I can add some simple bolt on's, and easly get over 500hp, and get a car that can easly beat out the viper.
Next off, the new vette's interior, verses the Viper. I drove the new viper once and hated the seats. they have almost no support, and are hard as rock. It is extreamly loud, and unpleasent. As for the vette, it is nice and quited, yet can be loud. Yet the seats are nice, and everything is nicely layed out.
Finally, the Vipers proformance numbers. 0-60 in 3.8 seconds with a v-10? Yet the Vette with the new LS2 can hit it in 4.2, and with a blower, it can easly do 3.8, and maybe even a 3.6-3.7. I will still be under the 80k base price when I do this. And in 2006, with the new Z06 vette, it is said that it can hit 60 in 3.8 seconds. I will still have about 30k to spend on upgrades.
So, all in all, the Viper is a bad car. They sell you more than you get, and it just isn't worth the money.
Oh, and one other thing. The warranty. With the viper, it clearly says in more words that if you do a burn out, or go racing, you have voided the warrenty. In the vette's case, you have the same problem, yet I wouldn't mind not having a warrenty for a car only costing 50k instead of 80k.
Ok who is getting sick of corvette owners using the same argument? A mustang can be modded to beat a corvette, can it not? When that's brung up they usually mutter things about weight and other non-sence.
People in the future won't be able to make this argument, because year after year, the corvettes get more expensive! And just a question, what are these mods going to bring at resale, may I ask? Exactly, the viper will hold it's value much better than a corvette on steriods!
As for warranty, it is the same with all car manufactuers... And not only that the viper warranty is better than the corvette! Tell me, Why would GM or Dodge give a warranty to a street racer who abuses his car more than his girlfriend?
Duhhh!
And now my friend seems to be comparing cars that don't exist!
Yet the Vette with the new LS2 can hit it in 4.2, and with a blower, it can easly do 3.8, and maybe even a 3.6-3.7.
And a 89 prototype will still be able to school it! Well since he says that, then let us bring the SRT/10 Coupe into this! 600 HP vs 400 HP .... Simple bolts on won't get you anywhere.
If your comparing cars, you compare cars STOCK. I don't want to see a 92 RT/10 being compared to a 2020 Corvette that doesn't even exist.
For those who actually still think that was me that made that post, ya'd think I'd change my profile and remove the "All day I dream about vipers" part?
I've waited for a long time to post this... And I thank Vipermad for re-instating me.
