Dodge SRT Viper test drive since 2012

Falling flight

A quarter of miles Viper wins even against the F-16 fighter.
The sun-melted light gray asphalt flows under the wheels, the hard suspension shudders at barely noticeable joints, the wind, whirling in a close open cabin, trembles, the motor rumbles. On the calendar Friday, on the horizon of the Baltic coast. The beauty!!!
Here ahead of one of the burghers rushing to the sea went to overtake and hung in the left strip about one and a half hundred. I smack the fourth and roll the tourist hint
Five hundred forces of a giant motor at once was printed to the back of the seat. The cars on the right and the rest of the world in an instant smeared, turning into the background, vision narrowed his gaze rested on the horizon. Howl of winds, roar, shaking. The steering wheel strives to break out of the Lord's instantly sweating hands, how to let him go in order to twist the box lever?
All movements have to be calculated by micron and even at the same time the reactions of the car are frightened by sharpness. The speedometer arrow, meanwhile, exceeded the mark of 300 and froze. Speaking, I turned into a bare nerve I feel the car with a continuation of the body.
Yes, except for Doja-Viper SRT-10, only a few more cars are capable of this. Perhaps that is why many objective shortcomings are perceived as signs of exclusivity, or even a continuation of advantages. Well, who in their right mind might like a cramped narrow salon, which you pull on yourself like a cocked? You squat on one leg (the roof will not be waist-deep, but below), you put the other in a narrow pencil case leading to the pedals, then you pushing the file part into the gap between the steering wheel and the chair, and to top it all, you try to pull the twisted left leg. One joy of the pedal block has a servo drive.
How do you like the chair? Similar to the bowl, it is equipped only with a pair of kutsih adjustments, but tightly fixes the body, resting on the ribs with hefty side crests. Trunk? This is generally a misunderstanding here only a medium -sized suitcase will fit. One! About the toothbrushing suspension, disgusting sound insulation, almost 13-meter diameter of the turn, heavy pedals and the absence of a spare wheel, I am silent.
But how good this devil is! Not a shell car! And the fact that you barely squeeze inward are you easier than Formula 1 pilots or NASCAR riders? And when, with pressing the red button, Starter Starter with tangible effort flows the crankshaft, and the wake -up motor responds ten cylinders with a uterine bout! And when you refuel the expensive ninety -eight of 60 liters for every 250300 km. You can, of course, go in economical mode, but, tell me for mercy, why then buy a weiper? After all, he is a record holder among cars in engine volume 8.3 liters!
The aluminum power unit is designed in American canons and from a European point of view is hopelessly outdated: the only camshaft located in the collapse of the block, through pushers, brings valves only two per cylinder! A similar circuit of gas distribution even with us retro (used on the twenty -first Volga). Nevertheless, the monstrous moment 712 N. M. Provides catapulting up to hundreds in just 3.9 seconds!
Why there a hundred in a minute Vaeper will have time to accelerate to 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) and slow down to zero! At the same time, the owners of such cars perceive any electronic insurance as an offensive distrust. If you want to start in the smoke of burning rubber, smearing it on the asphalt with fat black stripes, there is no problem, the electronics are not a hindrance.
By the design of the waiper, a typical racing car: a frame-panel base with mounted plastic elements. To realize the breathtaking traction and load the leading rear wheels, they used a rather rare variety of the classic layout of the engine, they shifted back the front wheels (which is quite natural), and the six -speed mechanical gearbox was combined with the main gear (with a differential of increased friction) and placed between the rear wheels.
Due to the long rods, the selectivity of the box lever turned out to be not so hot after the I transmission can easily get to IV. However, this reflects little on the dynamics, just when acceleration, the eyes do not fail to the headrest, but only to the back of the head.
The motor does not like small revolutions without loading when driving in the lies, threatening to ruin the transmission. You have to play a heavy clutch and bast out. Considering that with 80 km/h on VI transmission (transfer ratio 0.5!) The engine develops only 1000 rpm, you should not rush with its inclusion. The roar of a working engine is heard in neighboring alleys. Leo went hunting!

I need a number at night. The porter glanced at the red supercar standing at the threshold: yes, sir. But, unfortunately, we only have cheap numbers up to 250 euros
Damn it, this Weiper has already taught me to overpay for gasoline, but for the hotel? However, I am a caliph for only an hour and therefore jerking. After all, such a car is a rare and expensive toy. By the way, now sales have begun in Russia. What is the price? Ah, leave it! Is it all the same? Well, let something about one hundred thousand evergreen. As one familiar Yachtsman said: if a person asks about the price of a yacht, he will never buy it.
 

 

 



Yuri Nechetov
 

Source: The magazine "Driving"