Kamis, 15 Mei 2008

History cars ; Dodge Viper

Dodge Viper : One of the most beautiful American autos from dream

Every generation has a car that captures the imagination of the impassioned ones turning the goddess of the simple transport into an artistic ideal. They return in mind names as Cunningham, Allard, Cobra and Red Head. automobiles that united unbelievable performances with exceptional lines. Since his/her debut in the form of prototype to the beginning of 1989, Dodge Viper he is earned in fact the reputation of the paradigmatic American sporting car.With an enormous motor, a line that doesn't pass certain unnoticed, fast, noisy, wild and without compromises, Viper represents a modern version of the purest American tradition.


How did it begin ? had beginning when ignited a spark in the mind of some impassioned ones to the old Chrysler Corporation, that was propagated in turn inside a group of technicians that you/they would have been called then "Team Viper."The first consideration served as the first components of the "Team Viper" it was that a really legendary sporting car could be created only eliminating all the superfluous elements. The thing most important it was to move one or two people to the maximum possible speed and with the strongest performances that a good pilot could get from an united powerful motor to a communicative autotelaio. The their objective specific prestazionale was that to get once of acceleration and deceleration from zero to 100 hourly (160 km / h) miles to smaller zero of 15 seconds.(Result officially gotten in 1993, with once of 14,78 seconds for the test 0-100-0, confirmed by the United States Auto Club). They were convinced that the body shop of Viper had to found on the essence of the classical sporting cars, but with a modern style authentically.It would have had to wind in fitted tightly way a mechanics characterized by enormous wheels, a powerful motor V10 and a cabin simple but spacious biposto. Among the cars of the past takings in consideration during the pregnancy of Viper there was the Cunningham, a run car built in little samples that, to the beginning of the years '50 fought to equal weapons with the cream of the European run cars.



The uncontested queen th these ideas in mind, near the Advanced Styling I Study of Chrysler Corporation it was projected a called prototype Viper RT/10.Its first public apparition happened to the North American International Auto Show in Detroit January four th 1989, with the purpose to sound the reaction of the public to the concept of a sporting car built in limited series, from the tall performances and from the traditional technical formulation. The reaction was to a little enthusiastic dir.The orders began to still arrive in factory before the Saloon had closed the leaves.Definite Chrysler Corporation immediately to study the feasibility of the transformation of the prototype Viper RT/10 in a car produced in limited series, in less than three years. In the following months, "Team Viper" he/she met all the potential suppliers, it studied techniques productive specifications and it analyzed various approaches ingegneristici that would have been able to allow the production of this unbelievable roadster inside the tempistica and of the budget anticipated. In the May of 1990, the months of intense studies and tests they culminated with the announcement from Chrysler Corporation of the green light to the project Viper.To that point he dealt only with using the computers and the experience of the technicians to find the most efficient way to make the things.The beginning of the production of Viper RT/10 was anticipated in alone 18 months.


I DEVELOP INITIALOnce accepted the initial idea, it was definite to develop Viper RT/10 using the concept of platform team.The result was a group independent servant inside Chrysler Corporation, that stable' his/her own objectives and it created independent relationships with the suppliers. It was necessary to examine a quantity of autocandidature of declared fanatics among the engineers, the designers and the managing Chrysler, to the search of that little that you/they would have belonged to the group, ready to make anything it was necessary to create and to produce a special car to tall performances. "Team Viper", operating from a zone of maximum safety posts inside the center of search, it began a three year-old period.Its activities spaced from Italy. where the block was improved motor in aluminum. to the circuits of Nelson Ledges and Road Atlanta. where you/they had set the mechanics and the autotelaio, that didn't have in common anything with the rest of the production. The components of the team worked to narrow contact with the most important suppliers for to develop the specific components destined to Viper RT/10, that you/they would not only have had to withstand the awful stresses determined by the sporting guide, but you/they would have had to contribute to the obtainment of the performances. Some prototypes, or "muletti", you/they were realized for studying the dynamic characteristics of the project.After an only year from the apparition of the prototype Viper in the Saloon, a muletto with motor V8 was on a trial basis already.Few months later, another experimental car, endowed with motor V10 with block in ghisa, him one' to the fleet. In May of 1990, after months of studies and very intense test, Chrysler Corporation announced that Viper would have been produced, with a motor V10 in aluminum.

Viper aims aloft more and more ! In January of 1992, the version of series of Dodge Viper was introduced to the public to the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.In April of that same year, one of the prototypes were given Indianapolis Motor Speedway to the museum Hall of Hunger. In 1993, the black color was made available.The known anchorman television Jay Leno, collector of auto of epoch, purchased the first sample.In 1994 they were assistant the paintings yellow and green emerald. In November of 1995 the production of Viper was moved in the establishment of Conner Avenue, where he/she remains to all today. To the version RT/10 in 1996 the Viper GTS was added.Introduced to the public to the 1994 Detroit Saloon, it was then choice as peace car for the 1996 Indianapolis 500 Miles, contemporarily to the beginning of his/her production, in May. As you/he/she had happened for Viper RT/10, also Viper GTS tried the patience of the impassioned ones before getting the OK to the production. In August of 1995, Dodge introduced a prototype of the coupe GTS, blue with the double white strip, on the occasion of the second assembly Dodge Viper Owner Invitational of Monterey, California, reserving an exclusive offer to the owners of Viper. the possibility to purchase the first produced GTS.More than three quarters of the anticipated production for 1996, 1700 unity, was reserved on the place. The Roadster had been projected for a pilot lover of the wind in the hair.The GTS coupe had the same ability to exalt the senses, but in a more refined way.The purpose of the project was well more depth that simply to add the roof to Viper: it dealt with creating the new version GTS on the wake of the most important Grans Tourism of the world. Viper GTS would be addressed to a vast public, among which .ad example - interested professionals to the sporting autos, additionally to the impassioned ones 'pure and hard' that they were identified with the Roadster. The technicians wanted the coupe to maintain the agility typical of the Roadster despite the addition of the roof and the mechanisms of the alzavetris.To get that the Coupe had a comparable weight with that of the original Roadster, the car you/he/she was submitted to a real diet. Even if the GTS and the RT/10 are very similar, more than the 90% of the Coupe it was new.Every part of the car to a deepened examination was submitted for improving her/it with an appreciable result: the GTS with plant of conditioned air almost weighed 46 kilos less than the 1994 RT/10, deprived of conditioned air. Other meaningful changes, introduced with the GTS in 1996 and also adopted by the RT/10, they allowed the reduction of the weight of well 91 kilos.Among the others, the suspensions entirely realized in aluminum and a loom riprogettato.Other interventions of lightening eranbo distributes on the whole automobile.On the GTS, proportionally great lightening was gotten in the motor and in the plant of cooling, where they were 'lost' almost 40 kilos. A total of 14,000 Viper they circulate on the roads and on the footsteps of the whole world, in the hands of clients faithful and impassioned estrememente.The Viper Club of America counts more than 3600 partners, besides 40 Viper Club affiliated all over the world, 33 of which in the United States. Another comparable automobile doesn't exist to Dodge Viper GTS Coupé and RT/10 Roadster.And each of the two versions is faithful to the objective of the "Viper Team": to create the maximum expression of the American sporting auto.

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