Originally Posted by Bulldogger
I'm leaving a stop light doing 30mph when a newer style viper convertable pulls along side me, we take off and I pull ahead by a 1.5 car lenths and he can't catch me. We slow again and run again this time I pull 1 car length. we stay like this till over 140, where he slows. My question is with a v-10 shouldn't he have way more top end power being they make 500/535. Anyway I will venture to guess he just can drive it or the passenger he had slowed him down. Funny guy, he gets along side me when where driving and puts his window, so I state your car is fast, so he says yea it's faster then you
so I said then how come you were behind me both times
he just takes off.
The new style vipers are faster than our cars stock for stock. They can do 0-60 in sub 4 and the 1/4 mile sub 12. My son has a 2005 and the only way I can beat him is if he loses it on the launch, which is not hard to do given the amount of torque the car has. His car fishtails easily.
The guy you ran against probably didn't open it up all the way. I wish we could beat a new Viper, then I could strut around my son. I do remind him that the SRT can beat the older model Vipers.
