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08/17/09
More than meets the eye
Devon GTX
More than meets the eye
Devon GTX
Viper in Disguise
Vipers wage their Battle
To destroy the evil forces
Of the Nissan GT-Rs
Devon GTX
More than meets the eye
Devon GTX
Viper in Disguise
Devon GTX
Vipers wage their Battle
To destroy the evil forces
Of the Nissan GT-Rs
Devon GTX
Devon GTX
Viper in disguise
[Devon GTX]
08/17/09
Dude..
I love u man.
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The only job they have is to re-do the body. All the hard work is already done. Just draw a nice shape and pay someone to build it and drop it on.
If you quintuple the price of an Enzo you get the P4/5 (of which there is only one and is in fact superior to the original car - dynamically and stylistically).
Quintuple the price of a Viper and you get a mess.
08/17/09
The Viper is plenty powerful enough. Of course, in this venue there is probably no such word as "enough," but in harsh reality there's really a lot more there than you can ever use, unless half your wardrobe is Nomex. And for your Colonial Revival cul de sac that could've been, what do you get? A few extra ponies, good. Body kit, meh. The requisite gigantic wheels and tires, maybe meh. But is it worth what you paid?
Well, no. For $500,000, you could've had an unmolested Viper, and a nice Colonial Revival on a cul de sac. And a garage to keep the car in. And probably a few bucks left over to dig deep and unleash a few extra ponies on your own time. And a raft of entry fees for track days where you can give the horses free rein with no threat of cops.
Dumb idea, and even dumber is the dumbass that buys it.
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It does look good - a lot of TVR Tuscan going on there, which isn't a bad thing in my mind - but for a cool half mill, I would definitely take the $100k sports car and then dump the rest into a nice house and a boat.
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And it wouldn't look nearly as ugly as this thing.
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[cache.gawker.com]" rel="lytebox" class="commentImage@DrewComments2.0: I agree I like it a lot. It's styling is curvy yet still muscular, exotic yet American. The only thing is the outrageous price. $80k maybe, $500k?!?! crackpipe. Oh and here is my favorite color scheme. I think I like it sans spoiler, though.
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And this thing....well...it's not any better.
It still strikes me as trying way too hard to be something cool and special, and it shows. It just doesn't work. At least the Viper itself is beginning to gain some sort of acceptance as a result of having been around for seventeen years, but it's still a potent example of what happens when you try to purify some elemental idea so much that you lose sight of what you actually set out to do.
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I was going to say that (not the part of you being an odd duck). I wonder if that's Mr. Devon in #4? I wonder if he's married?
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The Viper is like that young buck that drinks a lot, talks a lot, and is always causing bar fights and getting thrown out of places. The Corvette, on the other hand, is like that older guy that sits quietly at the back of the bar because he's kicked so much ass that he has nothing left to prove.
Sure, a lot of people rag on the Corvettes, particularly the C4 Corvette, but even so, Corvettes just plain look cool when placed next to a Viper. They Corvette may not seem as aggressive as the Viper, but it does seem a hell of a lot more confident.
If only they could stick to the same bare-bones philosophy with the aesthetics as the they do with the rest of the car, it might very well be cool.
@Skaycog: A guy like that probably isn't married. He's got a crapload of money and a strange desire for Vipers. My guess is a different girl every couple of months.
08/17/09
But the original Viper, there was nothing more badass than that. I like curvy, dramatic sports cars (eg: I prefer the C5 to the C6, sorta), and the gen-1 Viper was the best expression of insanity in a rounded package. It had it all - big, long hood, big wheels, scoops and vents that let the sheet metal do the talking.
The Corvette may not have anything to prove, but he's only at the bar to drink his old age away. Next to that old Viper, any contemporary Corvette looks positively plebeian.
08/17/09
But as guns go, the Viper is kind of a blunderbuss. It's a significantly better blunderbuss than it was, but still.
And the C6 is one wicked mother of a knife. If you know what you're doing with the one, and the other guy doesn't with the other, it's going to be a short, bloody fight and the guy with the knife wins. By the same token, put two similarly-unskilled drivers in the cars, and the guy in the Vette wins, again. Put two brilliant drivers behind the wheels, and the guy in the Viper wins...provided he doesn't screw up, because the 'Vette is cold death in skilled hands, while the Viper requires skilled hands just to keep it together.
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But for overall design maturity, I agree with that the C6 is one wicked mother of a knife.
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Step 2: Charge 500,000 grand for it.
Step 3: Profit?
Sorry, guys, but I think the MAN-tide is a better execution of an inherently stupid idea.
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@FormerlyPreferredCustomer: You're thinking of the wrong Devon. I'm thinking special edition synergies here. Besides, no one's forcing anyone to buy the car. You can still get your plain vanilla Viper if you want.
08/17/09
You know what, let's flip her over and see if she's got a pentastar on her somewhere. I have my suspicions.
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That, or start bugging GM for the Solstice/Sky platform, with the whole dead brand walking thing.
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Actually, I'm surprised no one's bought the Fiero plans in the past 20 years.