Dodge Viper SRT10 Roadster test drive since 2007

Green serpent

Weiper is a cult name for every American. Why is it already a decade and a half for the model that will captivate rich street racers? Mikhail Gzovsky and Konstantin Yakubov flew over the answer through the ocean (photo).
I can’t allow me to call on the sidewalk, even despite the stunning color, the black policeman looked strictly, but friendly. See the building over there? Our mayor sits there, and the windows of his office come here! Although if you need only a couple of minutes, I don’t notice you. Viper's photo shoot in the center of Detroit still took place. Downtown looks safe: skyscrapers of the beginning of the twentieth century are adjacent to modern sculptures and an exhibition center of Kobo, where every January is the largest automobile exhibition of America. But the patience of the mayor is not for the time to go further. Mile to the depths of the center, and in front of us are the abandoned buildings with gaping black eyelets of the window openings, burned with long -standing fires of the facades and the gates strewn with garbage. Once life was seething here. After the black rebellion of the 1960s, when 42 people were killed for five days and more than 7,000 were injured, many whites left Detroit, and he firmly took the rating of the most criminogenic places in America.
But even here, Weiper does not lose self -confidence, and this feeling is contagious. An hour earlier, for the first time I saw a car in a parking lot at the airport and cautiously touched the engine start button. The engine sighed noisily with many -liter lungs. The hard song of the shafts and valves at idle, vibrations on the steering wheel, pedals and the seat are like a nuclear -high European school!
In the city, the turnover does not rise above 2000. Almost from the start, Dodge and I weave in third gear, realizing the small a fraction of 760 nm torque. You can make a mistake and turn on the fifth car simply will not notice this. But everyone notices us! Passers -by react to a muffled, but promising muttering of release, raising their hands in greeting; Drivers will be alarmed after the teaser-ivat (as befits vipers!) A green spot spread on asphalt.
For 16 years since the start of the release, Weiper has changed slightly. The machine of the current, formally fourth generation became more powerful by 90 hp, a two -disc clutch appeared in the transmission, the gas distribution and absorption systems were finalized, and aluminum independent suspension of all wheels was reconfigured. However, the car is cosmically far from perfection in many ways. If your height is higher than average, you will have to draw your head into the shoulders, otherwise the review will block the edge of the windshield. It does not allow to relax when landing, insidiously aiming at a sharp angle in the face. The release bred at the rear wheel is heating air. It would become difficult to breathe rather a green light! Kokpita decoration is cheap, the design is ingenuous. The controllability is straightforward: the stabilization system is not provided (thanks for the ABS!), With sloppy driving and pedaling, the skid occurs sharply, and it is not easy to adjust it. The paradox is that many shortcomings fit perfectly into the image of a street fighter!
When the traffic lights are left behind, Weep reveals the cards. The rough low -frequency roar of the motor mixed with a transmissive noise is reflected from the chrome sides of trucks weavers along highway. The steering wheel is poured with heaviness and spurges to change the row to the beat of the electrihitan rolled from speakers. The fuel fuel fuel fuels burning in the exhaust pipe again press the pedal on the floor, enjoying the frantic pressure and juicy acceleration even behind the facet of the permitted speeds. The pursuers in a trembling rear -view mirror are lost. Now you can slow down. And for the hundredth time to enjoy lightning fast, like the left hook Joe Fraser, who was afraid of even Mohammed Ali, four -second acceleration to a hundred. The green serpent is obliged to get drunk, and he succeeds excellently!
Dodge Viper SRT-10 gross force, unrestrained by electronics. Only for real men.
IRON WILL
Engine: a 10-cylinder atmospheric unit with a volume of 8.4 liters increased by 1 mm cylinder diameter. CamlCam gas distribution system varies the time of opening of the final valves. Piston fingers, pushers of bronze valves are strengthened. The motor develops 450 kW/600 hp. and 760 nm torque. Transmission: instead of a single-diameter of a larger diameter, a compact 2-disk production of ZF Sachs has been installed. It made it possible to reduce inertial losses by 18%, as well as reduce the effort on the pedals and add information content to it. The moment is transmitted to the rear wheels through a 6-speed manual gearbox and viscous factory in the inter-cross differential. Brakes: 335-mm brake discs with two-cylinder calipers of Brembo are opened with slowdown. The company declares the braking distance with 100 km/h only 30.5 m. Tires: Michelin Pilot Sport 275/35 R18, 345/30 ZR19.
 
 
 
 

 
 

Source: The magazine "Driving"