Dodge Viper ACR-X

The crisis gave the car a real blow to Dodge, Chrysler Group’s business is characterized by high-performance products and therefore particularly susceptible to reduced sales in tough times. Fiat, however, in his recovery has designed a special position, which could be further enhanced by new products in the pipeline.

Pending the new generation of sports, however, the technique uses focused on the old bastion of sporting stars and stripes, the Viper model certainly extreme range of U.S. sports brand and intended to retire in the second half of 2010. According to a concept a bit ‘Audi, which until recently appeared on older versions RS models, comes the Dodge Viper ACR-X. Racing version (not approved road, then) with 640 hp, which will host a championship brand created specially.

The Viper ACR SRT-10 had already been improved and was equipped with a version of the V10 8.4-liter 600 hp and 760 Nm Its V10 (exaggerated in cubic but with a specific output of only 71.4 hp / liter, rising to 76.1 in Viper ACR-X) had the fastest time among the production cars on the track at Laguna Seca.

Now the Dodge Viper ACR-X seems to be able to inflict even 3 seconds to lap the road version, not bad for a race car that price “only” $ 110,000.