GRtak
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I rarely see any Vipers as it is.
Fuck autos, this type of car should never have it market appeal be damned. Focus RS is manual only, as it should beThat is virtually the definition of cutting off your nose to spite your face. Where do you think the Corvette (or the 911, or the Coxsters, or the Mustang, or the Camaro, or the Challenger) would be if they didn't at least offer the choice of an automatic? They'd be keeping a tombstone warm to greet the Viper in the awesome cars cemetery.
I'll buy a manual Corvette. And I'll be grateful that I even have the opportunity to do so courtesy of all the housewives who kept that car alive by getting an automatic.
I don't think offering it as an auto would have solved all its problems, but it's undeniable it would have likely doubled, if not tripled the sales. Also, lack of a drop top this time around was pretty stupid.
And it wouldn't exist were it not for all the auto Focus models sold upon which this business case could be made.Fuck autos, this type of car should never have it market appeal be damned. Focus RS is manual only, as it should be
And it wouldn't exist were it not for all the auto Focus models sold upon which this business case could be made.
So, by that logic, it should have a flappy paddle gearbox.
What about using the Viper name to make a few hand-built cars every few years or so? If no one knows when the next Viper will be produced, it will increase the perceived scarcity of the car and possibly drive up overall sales. You tool up and do a one-year run every 6-8 years or so when there is surplus time and space on a particular line. This would help avoid layoffs and bring a return for Fiat Chrysler.
The "supercar that's not even driven that much" are ferraris and lambos. Most of those have flappy paddles.
Yeah well, keep revitalizing ancient engines and platforms and look where it gets you.
You need to sell your Mustang IMMEDIATELY or your militant stance is just posturing.I don't care about normal Focus, it's a boring FWD pile of misery. RS doesn't have an auto, nor should it ever. Viper doesn't have an auto, nor should it ever. Both are cars for fun and nothing else. I am still pissed that 370z nismo comes as an auto. I get pony/muscle cars having the auto option, Vette is bought by old people with arthritis and the muscle/pony cars do plenty of drag racing where auto is actually better. Viper is not even a super car driven once in a blue moon, it's about as close as one can get to a race car on streets. I'm glad they didn't offer an auto, it let the car die with dignity not as a shadow of its former self (looking at you GT-R).
Last I checked mine had three pedals. Mustang is in the same vein as the Focus, it's not a purebred sports car, it had a choice of a V6 from the beginning. It was a mass market car, it wasn't essentially a track day special. And when they made one (GT350) it's manual only.You need to sell your Mustang IMMEDIATELY or your militant stance is just posturing.
Nor have a CorvetteOh, I don't have arthritis, and I'm not even 40.
Want me to bring you a new wife while I'm there?Keep digging. You must be halfway to China at this point.
Yuck! Pushrods rock -- it keeps the weight down low and less moving parts. My car has variable valve timing and all of that fancy stuff. You don't need DOHC for that.
My understanding is the main reason is stuff like airbags, plus of course the fact that the plant is shutting down. They aren't selling enough to make it worth moving the dedicated production line.
But Mustangs come with the option of an auto, and therefore by your own admission it renders the entire line to be avoided like the plague.Last I checked mine had three pedals.
Hey, give me some time! Wifey is caving....prizrak said:Nor have a Corvette
No, but I have a hankering for some authentic dim sum, while you're there.prizrak said:Want me to bring you a new wife while I'm there?
Burn em all to the ground!But Mustangs come with the option of an auto, and therefore by your own admission it renders the entire line to be avoided like the plague.
That will be the time to come visit youHey, give me some time! Wifey is caving....
DoneNo, but I have a hankering for some authentic dim sum, while you're there.
Not absolutely sure. I went to various websites that had engine weights for the Viper V-10 from various years. The range of the weights were roughly 690-750 lbs.How dressed is that 700lb weight?