FobzyThe 2010 Dodge Viper ACR makes its lap of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
November 28th 2009 01:16
According to Auto.week
Despite allusions to cooperation on the Viper with Chrysler's new Italian owners, there will be no Viper Ferrari.
Hey, it was a natural question, especially since Dodge opened that door in a press release on Tuesday about a lap record set by a production Viper ACR at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca (1:33.915; more on that in a minute).
"When we have partners across the ocean who are known as the best sports-car makers in the world, the future opportunities are huge," Dodge brand chief Ralph Gilles said in a release.
The future opportunities for what--a Ferrari V12 in a Viper body? A Viper V10 in a Frankensteined 612? What? You could go insane imagining the possibilities. So we spoke to Gilles directly and asked whether there would be any cross-engineering or parts-sharing to the extent our overactive imagination imagined there might be. We asked about a Ferrari Dodge Viper.
"No," he said in about as definitive a tone as car execs ever get.
Then what did he mean by the "opportunities are huge?"
"They really know sports cars. We just want some advice," Gilles said.
But wouldn't a Ferrari Viper be cool, regardless?
"Ferrari is Ferrari, Viper is Viper," he said. "Please don't go there."
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