We Drive the Fully Adjustable, Customizable 2016 Dodge Viper ACR - Hot Rod Network
When the time came to track test the prototype 2016 Viper ACR, the engineers had a moment of panic. “It’s not like putting camo on it would do much,” SRT Head of Engineering, Russ Ruedisueli told us. “Finally, we got some racing meatballs, a bunch of aftermarket stickers and a plain trailer and we stickered up the car and towed it behind an... The new ACR was not ignored because it’s boring, but because it so looks the part of dedicated road racer that no casual bystander would ever imagine for one second that it was SRT’s brand new street legal production Viper. The Dodge Viper was once an unruly beast, tamed only by the most dedicated of drivers. ” cried the masses, and the engineers went in and widened the front and rear track-widths and tires, wrapped the interiors in leather and faux-suede and offered the tamed snake in all the colors of the rainbow, fully suitable for daily driving, if... Frustrated, the SRT engineers went into the parts room and pulled out the forbidden boxes. “We shall put it all on, and then they can tune it themselves,” SRT said, and thus was born the 2016 Dodge Viper ACR (American Club Racer). Whatever the back story, the result is that the Viper ACR is back for the first time since the second-generation ACR set the production car lap record at Nurburgring in 2011 and it is a ton of fun and an (almost literal) ton of downforce. Just in case you aren’t up to snuff on your Viper news, earlier in 2015, SRT started offering a custom build program for Viper, the Viper GTC. Source: www.hotrod.com
