There are tentatively less Vipers built

Posted on 03-10-2013 at 11:36 by ricardo – 13 Comments”

The demand for the SRT car is less big than imagined.

One of the most violent supercars from the US of A is, since 2012, no longer under the Dodge flag markets, but was a private label of its parent company, Chrysler: SRT. And everything on this car is insane, except for the results. In the eight months that he is now on the market in the US, there are 426 sold, and dealers are still 565 in stock. Outside the borders of the country were only “a handful” were sold, all in the Middle East.

Time to get the production back to screws, thought Chrysler, and so as of this week, only six per day made in the Conner Avenue plant in Detroit. Previously there were nine. As a reason for the disappointing sales contributes SRT boss Ralp Gilles that the outside of the spring/summer is always quiet with Viper sales, and the overall slump in the car market also helps, not determined.

The employees of the 171-strong workforce which are no longer needed in the Viper factory in other Chrysler plants to be found. We wait meanwhile still on the first specimens that come to the Netherlands. Because 649 hp and 813 Nm of torque.

Gallery: SRT Viper TA

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