24 Facts About Dodge Viper

Dodge Viper is a sports car that was manufactured by Dodge, a division of American car manufacturer FCA US LLC from 1992 until 2017, having taken a brief hiatus in 2007 and from 2010 to 2012.

Dodge Viper was initially conceived in late 1988 at Chrysler's Advanced Design Studios.

The popularity of the Dodge Viper overshadowed the recent failure of Iacocca's pet car, the TC, which had cost five times as much to develop.

Originally engineered to be a performance car, the Dodge Viper had no exterior-mounted door handles or key cylinders and no air conditioning .

However, the Dodge Viper was still equipped with some domestic features, including manually-adjustable leather-trimmed sport bucket seats with lumbar support, an AM-FM stereo cassette player with clock and high fidelity sound system, and interior carpeting.

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The 1996 GTS would be the first Dodge Viper to be equipped with airbags and included air conditioning, power windows and power door locks as standard equipment.

In 1998, both of the versions of the Dodge Viper were equipped with second-generation air bags, revised exhaust manifolds along with a revised camshaft.

In 2000, the Dodge Viper was updated to lighter hypereutectic pistons and received factory frame improvements.

The cobalt blue colour of the Dodge Viper GTS seen in the Viper was exclusively available to the series.

Dodge Viper underwent a major redesign in 2002, courtesy of DaimlerChrysler's Street and Racing Technology group, taking cues from the Dodge Viper GTS-R concept presented in 2000.

Dodge Viper ACR made a return for the ZB II generation and was put through its paces at the Nurburgring clocking in a record time of 7:22.

Dodge Viper ACR was built alongside the standard SRT-10 at the Conner Avenue plant in Detroit.

At SEMA 2014, Dodge presented a Viper ACR concept car based on the new VX I platform.

Dodge Viper eventually found himself supported by 377 people, and sponsorship and assistance from Kumho Tire, Prefix Performance, ViperExchange, and Fox Pro Films .

Shortly thereafter, Dodge Viper sent buyers a 1:18-scale "speed-form" replica in their chosen custom colors, to confirm or deny the build.

Prefix Dodge Viper Medusa Roadster is a convertible conversion package available for the VX I generation Dodge Viper.

Force 1 is heavily based on the Dodge Viper, using its chassis and engine, and has a similar design language.

Ten years after the first Dodge Viper Concept was revealed, the 2000 GTS-R concept was shown.

Dodge Viper is featured exclusively in the 3D game Viper Racing, produced in 1998 by Monster Games Incorporated and Sierra On Line.

Back at the FIA GT, the Dodge Viper racing teams won four races, but were outrun by the Lister Storm racing teams, with them winning five races for them.

The rest of the teams left at later years, and the Dodge Viper GTS-R began fading by 2004, then left completely by 2010.

In 2006, a modified Dodge Viper GTS-ACR driven by Greg Crick under the team Crickcars.

Modifications to the mechanicals of the Dodge Viper included a 27-gallon fuel cell, differential cooler, ducted brakes, improved driver and engine cooling, trap door oil pan, low-inertia flywheel, an improved double-wishbone suspension system, new spherical bearing control arm attachments, two-way adjustable coil over dampers, and a driver-adjustable blade-type rear anti-roll bar.

The No 93 Dodge Viper won class at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Brickyard Grand Prix in July 2014, after both cars took podium positions in the previous races at The Glen and Mosport.