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VIPERIZED; WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DROP A VIPER V10 INTO A CHALLENGER? LOTS OF TIRE SMOKE.(NEWS)
Byline: ROGER HART
With all of the doom and gloom surrounding the auto industry today, it's heartening for enthusiasts to know that there are still talented people in the business who are not working on hybrids or electric vehicles. For the record, these people are having high-horsepower, tire-smoking fun. For now.
Case in point: the Dodge Challenger SRT10 concept that debuted at SEMA on Nov. 3. The car is the brainchild of Tom McCarthy, senior manager for SRT vehicle synthesis and chassis. He thought up the idea in February, and the result you see here was driveable three months later.
"This car came about when trying to think up a cool skunkworks car off the Challenger. I didn't want to just add a superchargerFord has done that with Mustang. So we looked at what we had in-house, McCarthy said.
"In-house (at least for now, as Chrysler has said it has received several offers to purchase the Viper brand) meant tapping the Viper parts bin, including the 600-hp, 560 lb-ft V10.
"There were several goals with this car. It had to be very inexpensive to dowe had a strict budget and a strict timeline. It had to be a complete runner when it was done. And I wanted it to be a show car with showroom quality, McCarthy added.
The project was kept secret, with only a handful of people knowing about the car initially. "My boss didn't even know for a while, McCarthy said with a grin.
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