Dodge Viper Still Selling Like Mad, Viper ACR Virtually Sold Out, While Chrysler Sales Down
Posted by Admin on November 18, 2008
Chrysler may be running around like a chicken without a head, but the craziest bird in the roost, the Dodge Viper, is out dancing in the fields. Even while companies worldwide prepare to ransack Chrysler, the Viper sales are unflinchingly continuing. Although Chrysler sales are reportedly down an amazing 32%, Dodge continues to produce and sell Vipers at a rate of 100 units per month. Not just that, but the Viper ACR – that $105k track-prepped super-snake – is all but completely sold out… not so much in spite of the poor economy, but because of it. Chrysler reports that with stock portfolios rapidly losing their value and dollar values plummeting, investors are seeing the Viper ACR as a good investment opportunity due to its potential discontinuation and therefore retaining a high resale value - all with smile inducing dividends, too.
While Cerberus continutes its take-over talks with anyone who will listen, the fiscal viability of the Viper unit is bound to make it an attractive asset for any number of buyers. So while Chrysler may be counting its days, the Viper is likely to live on for some time yet. At least we hope.
Dodge Viper ACR
I know the Vette is supposedly a better daily driver and all that, but there is everything visceral about the Viper that speaks to you in your soul; either looking at it or listening to it, or driving it.
Anyone shutting down production of this thing should be fired! Z06 or not, this should not be shut down as a threat but bolstered as complimentary to
Not really any surprises here, the car has always been red hot and true to it’s mission.
The Viper should be a template for how all Chrysler products are concieved. Just as the Corvette should be for GM.
Chrysler is perfectly talented and capable of producing vehicles people want as we’ve seen many times before, it’s terrible management and product decisions by their recent management which has brough the company to the brink. No different than Ford or GM.
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