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NASCAR Season Preview: Dodge Raises the Stakes

Ralph Gilles Gives You a Guided Tour of NAIAS

Whether you can’t make it to Detroit for the North American International Auto Show or simply want to get fired up before it opens to the public on Saturday, you don’t want to miss this walk-through guided by Dodge President & CEO Ralph Gilles. In it Gilles not only gushes about the layout, design, and [...]

Meet the Fastest Viper Yet: The 2010 Viper ACR-X

The new 2010 Viper ACR-X debuts this morning at the Performance Racing Industry (PRI) Trade Show in Orlando, Florida. In a nutshell: It’s a turn-key, limited-edition Viper aimed specifically at road racers that combines the best performance attributes of the Viper Competition Coupe and the record-breaking Viper ACR. (The SRT team tested it at Laguna Seca [...]

A Look Ahead for Viper

“We’re going to really listen to our owners and see what we can do to make the last 500 cars as special as possible, as collectible as possible,” Dodge President and CEO Ralph Gilles said after the 2010 Viper ACR broke the lap speed record at Laguna Seca. Not only will that include a special [...]

Lap of Luxury: The Viper’s Record-Breaking Lap Recap

It was quite a day. For anyone who couldn’t join us for our special live coverage of the 2010 Viper ACR’s first track test at Laguna Seca last week, you missed out on some genuine automotive history outside Monterey, California (but don’t worry, you can take a spin through it here).

Dodge had set out to [...]

Breaking News: 2010 Viper ACR Breaks the Track Record at Laguna Seca

Chris Winkler and the Viper crew set out this morning to test out the new Viper ACR on a track for the first time — and in the course of that testing managed to set a new course record at Laguna Seca for a production car.

At 12:26 Pacific time, after six hot laps and [...]