TRACK RAT'S SNAKE; Second-generation Viper ACR takes "race `n' ride'' to a new level.(News)

From: AutoWeek | Date: February 4, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: PETE LYONS

The Viper cage clangs shut, and there you are, locked in with 600 snakepower of coiled poison. Slowly, it raises its fanged face, blinks its slitted eyes, smiles.

"Good day, sir. May I offer you some whine?''

Supercars are growing more civil, which is disorienting. Dodge's new Viper SRT10 American Club Racer wears the street-thug look it should, and its muscle is rock-real, but its manner is as smooth as a British butler's. It starts up quietly, clutch and shifter are amiable, and when you fly into a racetrack turn at a pace you're sure would make ...

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