Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
IT’S labelled the most venomous Viper ever and judging by the wave of interest generated by its appearance in the Behbehani Brothers Sitra showroom it will not take a sports car lover long to take a bite.
Up for sale for a cool BD64,000-plus, the Dodge and Chrysler brand executives say it is very special and they were receiving calls from interested parties the moment it arrived. “It’s seriously fast,” said Sam Yacoub.
The latest version of the mean machine nearly didn’t happen, almost succumbing to the vicious jaws of bankruptcy. But in this case hotter heads prevailed, and the Viper was reborn as the flagship of SRT, a new performance division of Chrysler.
The Viper’s core values remain, as one motoring correspondent put it: “It’s awesomely fast, wildly styled, and that 8.4-litre, 640-horsepower V10 engine at full throttle sounds absolutely amazing right up until it shatters your eardrums.
“SRT likes to say that this Viper is more civilised than its predecessors. That’s true, in the same way an angry Rottweiler is more docile than a wild timber wolf.”
With the unveiling of the fifth generation Viper GTS, Chrysler announced a return to the American LeMans Series with an all new Viper GTS-R race car based on the latest road car.
