The 600-horsepower 2008 Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR races around the No Problem Raceway Track in Belle Rose, Louisiana during a durability test session. Video shot by Chrysler Design Vice President Ralph Gilles. The ultimate purpose-built, street-legal track car is powered by a 8.4-liter, aluminum V-10 engine.
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Dodge showed the ZEO Concept at this years What’s New for 2009 held at the Chelsea Proving Grounds, MI. June 26, 2008.
The wait is nearly over as the first photos of the 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 have been leaked on the Web. Dodge did not intend to show the Challenger in its full production glory until the 2008 Chicago Auto Show on February 6.
zoooooom. B-roll footage of the Dodge Demon concept roadster, released weeks before its debut at the Geneva Auto Show in March, 2007. There’s no sound on b-roll, so add own sound effects.
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We’re about to make our first high-speed run in the still-black 2008 Dodge Viper ACR when the old guy pulls up to our makeshift pit. He looks exactly like the guy you’d expect to meet in the middle of the Bonneville Salt Flats, like a worn-out Hank Williams, Jr.
Over the deafening cackle of his Cummins-powered diesel pickup, he yells, “What’s you boys doin’?”
“We’re going to make a few runs in this Viper here.”
“Yeah, how fast will she run?”
“We don’t really know. Maybe 190 or so.”
By the expression on his face, it’s obvious ol’ Hank has figured out that we have no idea what we’re doin’. He knows we’re just a bunch of yahoos with a fast car. He takes a good long look at the big winged Viper, then he shuts off the truck’s engine so we can hear him better.
“When you’re going fast, the slightest gust of wind can flip you,” he says. “That’s why we only ran early in the morning when the air was calm.”
We look up at the mid-afternoon sun and wonder what we’ve gotten ourselves into.
“And make sure you don’t run out of room,” he continues. “You think you have all the space in the world, then Floating Mountain is suddenly right in your face. I remember when I went for 300 mph back in 1978; my chutes didn’t open and I almost didn’t get her stopped.” He runs his fingers through a white beard. “Didn’t make 300 either,” he adds. “Only 280.”
Great. We thought this Bonneville thing was as easy as holding our foot down until the speedometer stopped moving. Now Mr. Monday Night has us imagining our $100,000 Viper sliding across the Utah desert on its roof.
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Dodge Caravan Minivan. It wasn’t so long ago that people cringed when confronted with the fashion of the 1970’s. But with the Disco Decade nearly 40 years in the rearview mirror, the era is experiencing its inevitable irony-driven comeback. So when the Dodge Grand Caravan joined Kelley Blue Book’s long-term test fleet it was greeted with a bit more enthusiasm than one might expect of a minivan. That enthusiasm, due largely to a wealth of optional equipment, also reflected the hope that the Dodge Grand Caravan might act as a portal to another time when custom vans were for the cool kids and not just angry loners. Sure the Grand Caravan does a fine job hauling children to ballet or grow-mulch home from the store, but it performs equally well as an impromptu lounge or for blasting Lynyrd Skynyrd while cruising down the highway with your old lady. Can modern minivans offer enough retro-fabulous mojo to fill the void left by the custom van fad of the 1970’s? It’s a question that deserves an answer and one which kbb.com’s Micah Muzio explores in the following video.
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