Please remember this is Bruce. The guy who says that your car looks like a RICER if it has stripes on it. Why do you Gen III haters get so upset and randomly post your pleasantries about the SRT?
The comments on both sides of this site, seem like you dislike the Gen III more than your inate disdain of the Corvette. I will assume that you feel betrayed by the brand? The older cars were pure muscle and appealed to a limited audience. While everyone from kids to grandpa gearheads loved them, very few would actually own one. Rightfully so.
The newer cars have abondoned the dinosaur like approach that galvanized each of us 'Viper People'. It is a far leap from the earlier descriptives of a Viper. Its no longer rude, arrogant and cartoonish. With the exception of 'fast' I can think of few commonalities between the cars.
Personally, I don't care about popular opinion. Demographically and categorically I can assume that very few of us purchased the car to be popular. All three gens are great and fantastic in very different ways.
At the end of the day, DC should have probably disinvested itself of the Viper namesake and created a new brand in which to market the SRT. As more of the older generation Viper owners move out of their cars, where will they go? As it certainly seems like many of you will not be upgrading to the Gen III, will you look to another nameplate? Probably. And Dodge will have lost a potentially profitable section of its base and an opportunity to steward MOPAR loyalty.
I don't weep for Dodge. I'm not angry for them fixing something that wasn't broken. The SRT is everything I always wanted my 96 to be. I also do not bash other folks' cars unsolicitedly. Don't quite understand how being so negative about someone elses pride and joy, even a Corvette, makes my day any better.
