Dodge Viper

Last weekend at Barrett-Jackson’s Northeast auction, Dodge offered up a very cool pair of cars to one lucky bidder. The auction was dubbed “The Ultimate Last Chance” because it was the last chance for anyone to buy a Viper and Challenger SRT Demon car.

Well, darn it. Last week we got excited because a new rumor floating around claimed that the Dodge Viper would return as a 2021 model. At the time it was tipped to ditch the V10 and shed weight at the same time.

It’s not even been a year yet since the last generation of the Dodge Viper was killed off by Dodge. That left a bunch of gearheads sad because the monster car was very cool indeed. Now, Car & Driver is reporting that the car is returning in a new generation likely as a 2021 model.

A private racing team has taken a stock 2017 Viper ACR to the Nürburgring to see how fast the final generation Viper ACR would go around the Ring. With a legitimate pro driver behind the wheel, it turns out the car will go around the ring very quickly indeed.

I’m not sure what to think of Dodge promising again to end Viper production. I mean, the company has axed the car before only to bring it back a few model years later. This time though, FCA is promising that the factory where the Viper is built will be closed up for good on August 31.

If you like car chases and Vipers, you need to watch this Pennzoil commercial. It’s called The Last Viper and it is awesome. Director Ozan Biron’s latest commercial starts with a reward offered for the the very last Dodge Viper, which has been stolen.

If you are hoping to buy yourself a 2017 Viper before the car goes extinct, you might have worried when the order banks were closed in early October that you missed your chance. As it turns out, Dodge will be accepting orders again.

We are all a bit sad that the 2017 model will be the last time Dodge’s epic Viper supercar will be produced. Dodge had some very cool limited editions of the car, but those sold out almost as soon as they were available.

A company called Atieva is currently hard at work producing an electric delivery van called the Edna. While it’s not designed for racing, of course, the cool part about electric vehicles as we already know is that you get all the torque right at the start.

Once Dodge announced that the Viper would be ending production just as it celebrated its 25th birthday, sales started to boom. The company has now announced that it has sold all 215 of the available special edition Vipers already.

Early this year, we were excited that Viper production might continue, but Dodge has now made it official that the 2017-year model will be the last for Vipers. To commemorate the end of the 25 year run for the Viper, there will be five limited edition 2017 Vipers to choose from.

This blue 5th-gen Viper looks like it’s mostly stock from the outside, but it is far from stock under the hood. The driver of the ride says that it has a custom built motor and twin turbos that can push out as much as 1500 wheel horsepower.

The latest version of the Dodge Viper might be the best that Dodge has ever made, but the Viper still has a reputation as a car that really wants to kill you. We already know that the version of the Viper that we have now will go out of production soon.

Last year, we heard that Dodge was killing off the Viper, and we were sad. It seems that may have changed with suggestions from FCA that a new Viper may be a possibility after all. The company is considering a new Viper on a modern architecture, but the timing is unclear.

VLF Automotive certainly has a serious braintrust, with Henrik Fisker, Bob Lutz, and Gilbert Villarreal behind the brand. One of the first cars that the company is showing is called the Force 1 V10 and it is derived from a Dodge Viper.