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The Viper has been upgraded for 2008, by changing the boots for Michelin Pilots.
It now goes round corners ... allegedly.
http://www.itechnews.net/2007/09/19/200 ... road-test/

0 to 60 in 3.7 secs
8 ltr engine

Falco still beats it

Yeh but you're missing the point here Samray, you buy a Viper because it doesn't go round corners !!!!!!!!!!!
Well not as fast or as safely as any other high performance sports car you can buy today with "Nanny" control. This is a car you can throw at a corner, chuck the tail out and hold it under power and opposite lock, (luvverlee rear wheel drive).
Then you steer it using the accellerator pedal more than the steering.
Take it from somebody who rallied rear wheel drive Escorts for 10 years, very nearly as much fun as riding a Falco, but need a lot of road to play properly, something this size may need more road width than you've actually got if you get it on some twisty country lanes.
Got me drooling now, I'd settle for having one for a day a Donnington, well let's call it a weekend, with somebody picking up the tyre and fuel bills.

P.S. As an afterthought can I have Vicky Butler Henderson there as well in another Viper, then I can have somebody to play with.

HowardQ wrote:Yeh but you're missing the point here Samray, you buy a Viper because it doesn't go round corners !!!!!!!!!!!
Well not as fast or as safely as any other high performance sports car you can buy today with "Nanny" control. This is a car you can throw at a corner, chuck the tail out and hold it under power and opposite lock, (luvverlee rear wheel drive).
Then you steer it using the accellerator pedal more than the steering.
Take it from somebody who rallied rear wheel drive Escorts for 10 years, very nearly as much fun as riding a Falco, but need a lot of road to play properly, something this size may need more road width than you've actually got if you get it on some twisty country lanes.
Got me drooling now, I'd settle for having one for a day a Donnington, well let's call it a weekend, with somebody picking up the tyre and fuel bills.

P.S. As an afterthought can I have Vicky Butler Henderson there as well in another Viper, then I can have somebody to play with.

None of those points lost on me, especially Vicky's, but my point was the sales pitch for Pilots.

Not only did the old ones not go round corners, corners used to run away from them, they were so fugly.

If I was Michelin I'd make sure the car could corner before letting my badge near them.

Sadly never driven one, would never buy one, would choose something different if I could afford to, (probably a mix of 2 wheels and 4).
Just would be nice to try one and bring back memories of disused airfields flat out with 115 on the clock and loads of opposite lock, plus similar fun on roads/tracks with much tighter bends at slower speeds.

Like this - http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r164 ... n10012.jpg
Had actually slowed it down to 60 ish and thrown it into a tight left hander in this photo.
Me and the wife, mid 1970s, Gamston airfield Notts..