2010 Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR-X
The third special-edition 2010 Viper leaves public roads behind.
Dodge has recently announced that 2010 will be the last year of production for the current Viper, and that it will be celebrating with a series of limited-edition models. Following the appearance-only ACR Voodoo Edition and ACR 1:33 Edition—the latter named for the unofficial Laguna Seca lap record set by the ACR—comes the Viper SRT10 ACR-X. (For the uninitiated, all those initials stand for Street and Racing Technology 10-cylinder American Club Racer [ostensibly] eXtreme. Thank goodness for abbreviations.)
The ACR-X starts with the already formidable ACR and then adds an eight-point roll cage with driver and passenger door bars, a racing seat, and a fuel cell. The 8.4-liter V-10 gets headers and a lower-restriction exhaust for an additional 40 hp, bringing the total up to 640. Weight is down 120 pounds or so from the ACR—which is already 40 pounds lighter than the base Viper—and aerodynamic tweaks result in even more downforce than the 1000 pounds the ACR is said to generate at 150 mph. Sadly, it is not street legal. It did, however, lap Laguna Seca three seconds faster than the ACR used to set the record.
Production will begin in the spring of 2010. Pricing is yet to be finalized, but will be in the neighborhood of $110,000, meaning the premium over a street-legal ACR will be less than $10,000.
Okay, But What Do I Do With It?
Since the ACR-X isn’t allowed on public roads, Dodge used the occasion of its introduction to announce the Viper Cup spec series. Beginning in July 2010, it will be a 10-race series featuring the Viper ACR-X. Dodge does already have a purpose-built race car in the form of the Viper Competition Coupe, but that’s a more expensive piece farther removed from the production car and sold only to licensed racers. This one, anybody can get into. That’s frightening.
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