Looks like a Hot Wheels car I had when I was six years old. Hideous.

I would rip it more, but 600hp and 560lb-ft is hard to argue with.

Well everybody has his own tastes, but I love that color. Still wouldn't want to drive the "death car". If ever a car needed stability and traction control, that one does.

Mmm. Lifesavers.

So who's for buying five and lining em up?

As much as I love low-end twist, this thing will be a monster w/o TCS, unless it's on full wrinkle-walls.

And the color??? Shouldn't a Viper be in Arrest-Me-Red or Black?

Since this is a 2008, its EPA ratings use the revised (more realistic) test. Anyone know what the Viper gets now?

These changes of color are good. It gives the cops writing reports a good point of reference as to the exact model year of the vipers based on the color of the pieces strewn across the landscape. This is important figuring in most cases the driver was hauled off in body bag 5 minutes ago.

I, for one, hail the return of '70s colours!

the hood looks straight out of corvette summer.

"Bright" blue? That's the best they could do? I guess if they're using "Viper" in the color name twice, it was. Other color combinations include "Red with white stripes" and "Black."

Nothing says "My lottery pool at the meat packing plant hit the Powerball" better than Snakeskin Green.

There are really only three viper colors, blue with white stripes (or vice versa), red, and black both with the option of stripes or no stripes.

@Heep:

Corvette Summer was not as good a movie as you remember. ;-D

@MeatFarley: you are spot on with that observation.

However, lamborghini sells cars in ridiculous colors like orange, purple, and bright green. Yellow was en vogue and went out of style for a while later (even BMW stopped offering it, with no return).

Hopefully ther esale is godawful on the ugly ones so I can buy one and just paint it rustoleum flat black an hour after I buy it.

@dolo54:

I don't get the hate at all?

Why did dodge barrow Missy Elliotts ninja turtle lambo color?

The long, centered bulge in the hood with the opening at the end reminds me an awful lot of something, but I can't quite place it...

I wonder how well this car would sell in that Oregonian town that's pissed about the bollards?

Dang, you had the opportunity to make the headline "...rolls off the lime" and you didn't take it. is jalopnik too good for obvious childish puns?

I hate all of these "LOOK-AT-ME" colors. Isn't the point of having a high performance car using that performance? Isn't it hard to use said performance when you are attracting all of the attention around you? I bet cops love these colors; easier to see the drivers that may be speeding and can afford to pay the tickets.
I suggest they change the names of the colors from "lifesaver" colors to "I-over-compensate-for-my-shortcomings-by-driving-a-garish-colored-auto" colors.

bumbleebee, if you are in any way suggesting that the viper's hood looks like a wang because it's long and has an opening, then you must have seen some disgusting looking wangs for comparison, and can probably see the bassline tabulature for 'debaser' in an ink blot.

Looks like it should parked outside a methlab in southwest Michigan.

@HeeeeyJake: Nothing says "1st round NBA draft pick" better than a purple pearl Murcielago.

@MagnificentBastard:

Your meth labs are way better then ours then.

meh. needs more scoops.

Lazy reading... my eyes saw "Viper Violet" but my brain picked up "Viper Vomit". Which might be more accurate anyway.

I met a guy in Three Rivers fishing who was driving a viper.I think that guy was sweating that stuff he reaked so bad.

@drewheyman: Nice one.

C'mon guys, if TVR had a new Sagaris or Griffagarus or whatever with a ton of reptilian scales and a purple-green chromapaint scheme you'd be all over it. I would too.

Lambo may have invented Miura Green way back when, but they don't have exclusive license on weirdo colors. 60s/70s Mopars had the most unsightly combos (although the Big Bad Rebel from AMC wins hands down).

The hideous treatment of the Viper is totally in character for Dodge. I hate that I kind of like it...

It's official, Dodge now only builds caricatures of cars.

@brandegee: Thing is that TVR and Lambo can get away with it, because their cars always sort of look like they belong on the moon anyway. You could take one of those cars with bare sheetmetal and it would draw just as much attention as lime green with purple polka dots. The Viper is supposed to be a big truck engine in a really wide car with no traction control, all the fun and death of a TVR without the insane looks.

Every Viper has to be red? Really? I don't like that color, but the fact that 90+% of Vipers are red, blue, or black seems like enough. I think the rest can be other colors. At least it's not orange. When will the copper/orange fad end?

The wheels are sweet.

@jdepould: 7 scoops on the hood and one in each door, exhaust pipes poking out of the rocker panels, and jetta headlights doesn't look insane to you?

@NICKNICK: Until they have exhaust pointing out of the front, headlight scoops, and a trunk that opens sideways they won't be as crazy as TVR, thusly, they should stick to the tried and true "tractor engine on a truck frame" concept and not worry too much about making it look cool.

@jdepould: LOL--point taken.

@SwatLax:

Yes, about 2 MPG better than the oil tanker that brought the crude here...

Apropos of not much: I've tried to forget this car, but I swear my '77 Scirocco came in a metallic color VW called vipergrün (uh, "snake green"). By the time I got rid of it about a fourth of the paint had faded away. My worst car ever. However, it was a nicer-looking shade than this.

Better was my Fiat 124 ragtop, which was Positano Giallo. Never had a minute's problem with it.

Must be a late-70's thing, Cam68, because I've been harboring a desire to get another Porsche 928, say a '78, with the op-art checkerboard interior & paint it something approximating this horrendous shade of metallic green. Oh, and it's got to have phonedials...definately phonedials.

It's crazy. I love it. I don't care what you all say, if you are driving a Viper, you are already making a statement. So might as well make it a big statement.

@Collin: Would that statement have anything to do with the size of a certain appendage?

@Jdepould: If his appendage is green, he better see a doctor, quick!

Love the green. Hate the wheels. They draw waaay too much attention to themselves. Too ricerboyish for a cool car.

Where's the Plum-crazy purple, biotch? I want one with a grabber hood.

I never did like those Intrepid headlights on the 03+. Any 96-02 blue hardtop w/ white stripes for me please.

Looks better without the racing stripes.

Dodge would be wise to offer more custom colors -- it's an exclusive enough car, why not offer it the way the customer wants it? Might as well have the factory profit instead of letting some aftermarket paint shop apply the gaudy paint.

More colors you say? Purple you say? No problem. Here is a chart of color/stripe combinations for 2008. Some of these will be very easy to distinguish as '08 models on the road.

[www.wavca.org]

@my favorite car is a motorcycle: Good idea.. something along the lines of Porsche's 'Special Wishes' program. Don't hold your breath!

It's something I think about every time I see an old 911 or 928 painted some utterly bizarre shade: "At some time in the 80s/90s, that was the exact color of someone's wife's/mistress' lipstick/nailpolish/other."

@dolo54: "Still wouldn't want to drive the "death car". If ever a car needed stability and traction control, that one does."

That's a ridiculous Intarweb rumor. In fact, I got a big laugh at Edmunds listing the car as "spin happy" or something like that in their "Cons" list.

For about two years I drove one making 525 HP back and forth to work every day. I've driven it through two hurricanes, and daily Florida afternoon thunderstorms. It pretty much drives exactly like a regular car unless you intentionally stomp on the gas and generally abuse it. Granted, there is plenty of temptation to do this, but there is absolutely nothing about the car which is inherently unsafe.

In fact, it handles extremely well if competently driven. At the track other racers are often quite surprised at how well it does against supposedly more nimble cars in "the twisties".

As for all the stupid "compensation" jokes... come on, you're on a frickin' performance-oriented car site. Get over it already. Did it ever occur to you that they might just be fun as all-holy-fuck to drive? Jealous much?

Couldn't have put it better myself.