Chrysler - Dodge Viper Prior Blog Posts by Date Category specific to the Dodge Viper. October 2008 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat       1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31   Aug   Nov RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net Index of prior posts by title Use this calendar to navigate thru prior blog postings by date. Wednesday, August 27, 2008    AutoWeek reports Chrysler may sell the Viper business   AutoWeek reports that Chrysler is exploring "strategic options" for it's Viper product line. This means that like Ford (Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover, and perhaps Volvo) and GM (hummer), the Viper business would be sold lock, stock, and barrel to another company. Chrysler has already said that it has no Viper product in the pipeline past 2012 and that the Viper would probabaly be allowed to die a slow death as finances allow after that. This new plan, if executed, would sell the Viper business to a third party and then support it with technology and engineering support. The news comes as an unpleasant surprise to Viper owners and enthusiasts, who always believed that the Viper business was profitable and would continue. More information: (<right click> and <option in new tab>) Autoweek Article: http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080827/FREE/808279989/1508/newsletter02  More on DrivingEnthusiast.net network: Road Test: gen 2 Viper:  http://www.drivingenthusiast.net/sec-my-automobilia/sec-imho/1998-08-10_roadtest_gen2-viper/index.htm Challenger Enthusiast (included Dodge Viper section): http://challenger.drivingenthusiast.net/  View and add comments: Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[] Permalink for this post:  See similar posts in these categories: Chrysler | Chrysler - Dodge Viper Search for similar posts on the web: Google It! RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net Sunday, June 29, 2008    Wanted leaves driving enthusiasts wanting   Well... some folks thought this might be a great summer movie for car enthusiasts... unfortunately, it's not a great movie for anybody. On the car front, a handful of nice cars and one that appear to have been pulled from the staff parking lot are used throughout the film. From the trailers you might think the red Viper is the automotive star of the film... and you'd be wrong. After an impossibly silly stunt early in the film the Viper isn't seen again. Indeed - and very oddly - in the very next scene an old C4 Corvette is substituted - totally out of style with the Jolie character. Perhaps the budget ran out and only allowed for one Viper stunt car - and indeed some people believe that the C4 was digitally inserted over the Viper. Worse, when the Jolie character is shown shifting, it's a clearly a Viper shifter being moved. And that's the end of even the slightest interest for car enthusiasts. And speaking of being moved, several Viper Club members had reserved seating in the theater. There they were, all but one with t-shirts featuring the big grinning worm, and the other with a shirt featuring racetracks the wearer had clearly never seen.  After some glee from the appearance of the Viper very early on, they sat in glum silence for the rest of the overly-long nearly 2-hour movie. Angelina Jolie gives an oddly wooden characterization, and even tosses in one naked butt shot. Does the UN Goodwill Ambassador need to do that? James McAvoy as the reluctant hero does better, but his writers spend a huge chunk of the film explaining what a sad loser his character is: his best friend is bonking his live-in girlfriend and his boss looks like a refugee from the movie Hairspray (could that be John Travolta underneath?). And then there is Morgan Freeman, for some reason given an acting credit when he can't act at all. He delivers his lines with the same lack of enthusiasm as he has done since before the gadawful Million Dollar Baby. I'm sure he could have tried a bit harder for his multi-million dollar fee. Freeman can do better than this... although he hasn't for a very long time. If there was a saving grace for this film, it was the theater we choose to see it at. Those of you readers in Austin or Houston TX are very familiar with the terrific Alamo Drafthouse chain - a locally-owned set of theaters that also serve food and drinks. The Alamo makes any stinker of a film (except No Country For Old Men) a good time - as does a nice date.   Since I've already shown the trailer for Wanted in an earlier post, I'll instead show an important safety instructional video from the Alamo Drafthouse itself. That says everything that needs to be said about the Alamo!   View and add comments: Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[] Permalink for this post:  See similar posts in these categories: Chrysler | Chrysler - Dodge Viper | Media: Car Movies and TV Search for similar posts on the web: Google It! RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net Sunday, April 27, 2008    Movie preview: Wanted   Angelina Jolie, lots of guns, a car chase, and a red Dodge Viper. What could be better? (Well, a plot, but nevermind). With very limited "car movies" in theaters this summer. "Wanted" seems to be the one to see. In theaters, June 27th. The trailer. Be patient, the red Viper will be seen after the necessary background: The following video shows Angelina shooting from the hood of the red Viper. View and add comments: Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[] Permalink for this post:  See similar posts in these categories: Chrysler | Chrysler - Dodge Viper | Media: Car Movies and TV Search for similar posts on the web: Google It! RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net Saturday, September 01, 2007    Angelina Jolie crashes the Viper in Wanted   This picture made the rounds a few weeks ago of Angelina Jolie crashing thru the windshield of a Viper. Presumably giving the escaping bad guy the kick of death - although if that fails she also has a sawed-off. Hopefully this one leaked picture doesn't give away the ending... The movie Wanted is currently scheduled for next March.  The date may change if the movie really sucks... or may move forward if it looks good. Right now, it's a pure action plot. And I have the idea that boyfriend Brad Pitt's remake of Bullet will also suck... it's a movie that should not be made: Brad is certainly not even a 10th of 1 percent of Steve McQueen. Look for James McAvoy and the vanished-talent Morgan Freeman (whose choice of movies has led him to a Cuba Gooding Jr.-type career crash: http://www.drivingenthusiast.net/sec-blog/categories/movies/2005/01/30.html#a377 ) to co-star. View and add comments: Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[] Permalink for this post:  See similar posts in these categories: Chrysler | Chrysler - Dodge Viper | Media: Car Movies and TV Search for similar posts on the web: Google It! RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net Tuesday, November 08, 2005    Z06 vs SRT10 vs GT    2006 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 vs. Ford GT vs. Dodge Viper SRT10 Coupe The road ahead twists and turns up into the hillside, its surface glistening with rain, the trees flecked with the first hints of autumn. On a bright, sunny day, this would be sports-car heaven, but we're approaching the road with trepidation. Of the Chevrolet Corvette Z06, the Dodge Viper SRT10 coupe, and the Ford GT, only the Corvette has traction and stability control--and all have superwide tires and 500 hp or more... [Continue at source] View and add comments: Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[] Permalink for this post:  See similar posts in these categories: Chrysler | Chrysler - Dodge Viper | Ford Motor Corporation | Ford - Ford GT | GM | GM - Corvette Search for similar posts on the web: Google It! RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net
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