Corvettes are like Ivan Drago, over engineered, over refined, chiseled features, and expected to be the pinnacle of sports cars. The Viper is like Rocky Balboa. Raw, tough as nails, trains by punching sides of beef and lifting oxen yokes, and not nearly as glamorous, but the better of the two. Even the manufacturers, GM is like the Soviet Government, corrupt, all about power and dominance, and Dodge is like Mickey, old school, gritty, and unorthodox.
I’ve owned two Vipers - a gen 1 RT/10 and a gen 2 GTS. The stock catalytic converters get so hot and they’re right by your feet. On my gen 1, I eliminated the cats. On the Gen 2, I switched to high flow cats and relocated them. This was the best thing I ever did as it significantly reduced the heat in the cabin in both cases.
Disagree, have a stock gen 2 rt/10. Love feeling the cats heat up whenever I mash the gas. It is inefficient, but you feel how much gas you are wasting.
@@lawrencebmarshall I respect that. The only other concern is the paint tends to bubble and/or brown on those rockers with the stock cats. On my gen 1, it bubbled really bad.
Oh man, my first job was working front desk at am embassy suites. A local guy (not a guest, just someone who was in the town) had one of these and used to swing by the hotel every once in a while to show off. I asked him to see it, and he took me around the block for a spin. Was talking to me about the car and all that then I had to go back into work. About a minute after going back in, I see his wife outside chewing him out, asking what he was doing out and why he's giving random people rides and just completely screaming at him haha. Good times
What if one of those who want one strikes it rich through no fault of their own? Do they just instantly stop being annoying? Should we be giving Vipers to assholes in the world to mellow them out?
@@TheRealColBosch weird that you think everyone is a bad driver like you. The Viper isn't made for femboys that are used to tiny displacement buzz bombs. Its meant for talented drivers.
The Vipers always felt like cars specifically made for video games which checks out considering how many games they appeared in and it's probably where many found out about the Viper. Seems like as racing games evolved so did the Viper, like every generation represents a specific era in gaming.
the viper is just an american bugatti, its not practical and sucks on a track but its there to display how much power you can push in an engine and drag fast
It’s not just the heat, it’s how low you sit in the car. There’s no airflow at all even with the top down. Driving a Viper is entertaining for the first 25 minutes, then you’re tired and hot.
The 1st-gen Viper could quite possibly be the most gorgeous non-hypercar ever made. The 3rd gen's cute and all, but there's something about the way the first Viper looks like an actual viper. Will I ever own one of these things? God, I hope not. I'm a child of the 80s and my first cars were a 1989 Chrysler New Yorker and a 1991 Plymouth Grand Voyager. I know, right? It's a miracle I'm still alive. The gen-1 Viper (particularly the blue GTS with white hugger stripes) will remain the poster-girl of my dreams. And just like Giselle or any of the Victoria's Secret models, I'm certain the reality has no hopes of living up to the dream. Yet another fantastic video.
There’s no car I love more than a Viper, I grew up loving the Viper, it’s probably THE car that made me a car guy. Like you said, if you like it, you love it.
The Viper is like a tourist town for me. I'd love to experience it briefly by visiting, but all the bs that comes with owning one is something I don't envy.
Being gone for two months, I just love watching these vids and seeing Mr. Regular cruise around my home area. He even goes past my church at 4:45. Always loved these cars, they just tickle that danger nugget in my caveman brain. Unga Bunga segment had me in tears, especially hoagie fest lol, just PA things
As a gen 3 viper owner (spicy miata) I am honored these are getting the love they truly deserve now. If RCR made a review on it. Definitely doing something right 🤣
Gen 3's have gotten a little extra love. But they're still and always will be the redheaded stepchild. A one-off design catastrophe that Dodge did off the backend of a 6 month adderal and mescaline fueled binge that they course corrected on with the Gen 4+ after getting sober lol
I agree with that statement, I had a miata and flooring it (automatic sadly) was fun but it took forwever to get to speed and i never felt like i'd lose traction, whereas i hear vipers will just scream "What is traction!?"
this is definitely one of the best reviews you've done. i love how you can create the *feeling* the car instills in you, and so clearly express the societal niche it fills, all in the same sentence. this channel rules
As someone that had a poster and a 1:18 model car of the 2nd gen viper as a kid, I'm definitely in the "If you like it, you love it" camp. It is one of those cars that people definitely take notice when it shows up.
This car was a symbol of what a brand can do like a super high lever halo car, but not what they want to make the market on, on the other hand man did it work because I still want one years later
"Side pipe exhaust that looks like the gaping mouth of an old man forced to perceive primary colors in the month of June" has me fucking rolling at 9AM.
The viper is just a raw go fast machine and that's pretty cool. It also looks pretty darn good. Corvettes have been too fancy for their own good for years. Plus there are tons of them around. Vipers are a different breed.
That's me with single-player AI in some cases. Like if *I* pulled speedhacks or whatever in an online multiplayer server, I'd be rightfully banned for that, but the single-player AI can spam them as much as it wants seemingly?
As someone who drives a 2001 dodge ram rcsb with a 5spd and a 318 who revved all (and im being generous here) 300 hp and maybe 320 lbft in a 5k lb truck, at a 2nd gen viper on my commute home, and then was giddy when the viper driver waved and zoomed away, I loved this video lol
This whole notion that vipers can’t corner comes from nothing but bad drivers. Vipers have perfect weight distribution and are light as hell with massive tires. Carroll shelby is quoted saying “The viper is as close as you can get to driving a race car on the road”
So good. One of my two all-time dream cars is a 1997 Dodge Viper GTS. THat's what got me into cars and it still looks better than any other Viper except maybe the RT/10 to me.
Viper is special and worthy because it does not pretend to be anything it's not. The car never tries to be anything more than a huge engine, manual gearbox, two seats and four wheels bolted together to put the biggest shit-eating grin on the face of everyone who sees, rides in, and/or drives it
I wonder if it would be fair to call the viper lazy and cool since every other car has a ton of engineering put into multiple facets like the interior, safety, routing exhaust, etc. and they spend years making it all work. But none of those "extras" in the Viper. Dodge decided "eh let's not do those useless things and focus on only these things." Either that or Dodge had a limited budget and/or tight timeline and made the decision to focus only on the driving experience!
6:33 that’s how I feel driving around in my 88 RX seven. It’s the only car I have, and everyone is constantly trying to mess with me and I’m like I’m just trying to get some fried chicken or a burger or something. 😅
I used to own an '89 IROC with a warmed-over 350 and a cam and every punter from Pittsburgh to Punxsutawney wanted a piece of me. It really got tiring after a while. I'm not gonna race you man. I got nothing to prove to you. I know what I have and I know what you have. Also I would like to say, to any guy out there who thinks buying a cool car is going to get you women: No. Get that thought out of your stupid head right the fuck now. A cool car will not get you a woman. I've owned a few cool cars, and I can count on no hands the number of women who have told me "Wow that's a cool car, I want to sleep with you". I have however LOST COUNT of the number of dudes that have come up to me at gas stations or parking lots or wherever saying "Wow that's a cool car, I always wanted one/used to have one/buddy had one in high school/etc". Cars aren't chick magnets. They're Chuck magnets. Buy the cool car because you like it and you want it. Not because you think it'll get you laid.
Try driving a 08 cobra mustang every burger King employee with a auto zoned v6 dodge challenger wants to follow me to the gas station endlessly reving there heat sheald rattling rasp box only to tell me there whole life story while I try and pump my gas. Owning this car is painful enough at the gas station with out having to hear about "your wife's uncles best friends 68 gt 500 that's only got 0 miles on it and how you get it when he dies." I really fight the urge to feel superior to the Wal-Mart mountain dew people but they make it so easy.
On the rare occasion I drive my track prepped SW20 on the street I get this. I'm a magnet for every single Golf R/AMG/Mwhatever It's funny because I pretty much always pull away incredibly slowly due to the finicky twin plate clutch. I never launch the car either, as sticky tyres and hard launches is a great way to kill your driveshafts.
Everyone that had a Lamborghini Countach poster on their wall, eventually had a first gen Viper poster either replacing it or tacked up next to it. No frames, you push pined that bastard into the drywall.
Justin Bell and Tanner Foust have both said pushing production Vipers is scary, so much torque and not enough chassis. The race cars are entirely different cars so they aren't comparable. Obviously the ACRs sorted alot of the issues out mainly add as much down force as possible and pray
“The only thing he has had to eat today is a handle of makers mark and a plate of cold pizza cheese” lolololol 😂 I spit out my pizza and old fashion hearing that!!!!
Don't forget that this gen actually broke the Nurburg speed record for production cars... on stock tires.... A record that stood for years, and I believe he's still one of the only cars to break the record with factory equipped tires.
Also the Viper in Europe : Wins everything Europe : ok your car needs to be fair so we have to make your car heavier. Viper : Keeps winning. Europe : Ok we need to limit your power for we reduced the amount of displacement. Viper : Fills in 2 cylinders and still keeps winning. Europe : Bruh stahp.
The lesson is, if the Americans wake up one morning and decide they're going to beat you at something, it's a question of "when", not "if". Yes, I'm aware the Oreca Vipers were something of a team effort.
Took one trip 8 hour trip around the Olympic peninsula with my wife in our new (to us) 1998 Viper and she told me to sell it 😂 ... I didn't protest. Don't meet your heroes, kids.
The viper videos are always full of my favorite one liners. "built to shorten your lifespan." Made me hard. The "its for you" portion of the video is also amazing and "feeling the whole engine through my big toe" is so relatable. Happy to know I'm not the only one that does that lol.
I actually looked up that article he referenced in the video. It's online you can read it if you want. By the numbers the handling difference are negligible. The Viper beat the Zo6 by a pretty sizable margin on the road course but was on .3 quicker in the 1/4 mile. The Vette was actually quick in the high end acceleration. Mr. Regular loves just saying stuff and expecting everyone to take it as true. Despite the Viper beating the Zo6 in most performance categories they picked the Vette as the winner.
@NA-en7kz it is based on a truck engine. It's basically a 360 with two extra cylinders. That's why it has such a unique exhaust note. The engine has an uneven firing order because it's a 90 degree v10 instead of 72 degrees. The truck version of the v10 is iron the Viper version is aluminum.
@@nickthompson318 It isn't. The guys that made the vehicle have said as much. The truck V10 came out in 94, after the Viper. The truck V-10 shares the same basic dimensions, and 8 liter capacity, however, the 8.0 Magnum in the Ram 2500 and 3500 trucks was a totally different engine design.
As a gen V owner it’s so true about other drivers. Anyone who’s into cars will lose it when they see your viper. Will try and race, tailgate, follow, take pictures etc. for the first week of ownership it felt good..after that I find myself only driving it with friends on a cruise.
Dodge Viper designed by the guy who gave us the 427 Cobra. Kinda why they are so alike. It's funny back in the day the same complaints were very similar about the Cobra when they were brand new. However, the 427 dual quad Ford never Chugged lol
The Vette may be a better car. But the Viper is far far more fun, and sometimes in life, it’s nice to be back in the shoes of your more childish self, doing or owning something not because it’s it’s a more logical approach, but because it’s more fun
Dark but actually happened, there was a kid that used to come to car meets in SWFL in his dad's Viper. He ended up killing his own father, not sure of the motive but the whole bit about inheriting a Viper kinda made me think.
I had two friends die in one. He lost traction coming over a bridge here in SEFL crashed and both of them passed away. They are one of the most dangerous to drive and require discipline to operate
You won me back with this review. I had unsubscribed more than a year ago, but my son forwarded this to me. As a Gen 1 Viper owner I very much appreciated this. Thanks for the laughs!
I cant tell you, just how accurate the bit about unga bunga level intelligence driving next to a viper. Had that happen too many times, and it's always a Hyundai Genesis or Chrysler 200
As the owner of an 06 coupe, just about every word is absolutely spot on. Just today a Ram felt the need to try to do a pull on me while I was cruising in the right lane. In general it seems Mustangs aren't capable of passing without putting on a show. Just chill guys. And when people want a burnout... nah, these tires are $700 each. I'm not turning all the grip I paid for into smoke.
And no, we aren't racing your 350z either. I don't care how "mean" it sounds with it's turbo and titanium fart rod sticking a foot out your backside. 😂
Some innocent soul is going to stumble across this channel oneday completely oblivious, and is gonna get hit like a cruise missle to the face with "dirt-devil by smegma".
This is so accurate. I own a 2000 ACR and the few times I get it out to enjoy the drive it’s usually ruined by a random guy in unga bunga mode. Usually a Mustang. Corvette drivers don’t bother me, they actually try to avoid eye contact.
My favorite memory of this car is from Gran Turismo 3 I wanna say. When that game came out you could transfer 1 million credits from your old GT save game memory card. This was enough credits to buy a SRT-10 Viper, and mods. It made the beginning races so easy.
I would love to see you guys do every gen of the viper because i feel like the viper is one of those vehicles that doesn’t evolve in its nature but drives, feels, and is a completely different car every generation
The funniest thing about these other than the cliche that they are trying to kill you, I love that you can see where the exhausts are burning the paint from the backside of the panels haha.... That shit makes me laugh so much
I owned a Miata for a while and the pedal box felt narrow compared to my 370z. I ended up buying a pair of Piloti shoes that ended up working a lot better since they're pretty narrow.
Having driven both, there's something wrong with that viper. It looks like the cats are clogged which is why there is yellowing behind the front tires, its burning the paint. Otherwise you can let the clutch out in 2nd and it should easily start without hitting the gas.
@@user-cy3tr8eu8t I was actually the VP for the VOA in MD for a few years. Though I dont recognize this viper or the owner. I sold my 04 last year to get a 4th gen.
So many things to refute, if I had the time... BUT I am 6'2" with size 12 shoes and the pedal footwell of my 2004 Viper is HUGE! My Porsche has less than 2/3 of the space. Taking your shoes off to drive a Gen3 Viper is ridiculous. Seriously, not even remotely accurate. Being a fan of Chevrolet is your right, and Corvettes are some amazing cars throughout automotive history. Bashing the Dodge Viper with untrue (measurements vs opinion) is beneath a respected car influencer like you. Enjoy your videos still. Great content. Again, I have big feet and big shoes and my Gen3 Viper has tons of room, even more than my Porsche, which also had plenty of room. 🙏
You're not wrong. Every car show I go to I just watch how long it takes before the owner starts to get annoyed with people telling their life stories or how "I'm a 90s kid and I used this all the time in Gran Turismo 1."
The c6 might be a better performing car, but the viper would be so much more fun to drive. It stands out where a vette just blends because it’s just a vette. But it’d be a hard choice between a viper and a c6 zo6.
The MG B is similar in that you're seated next to the transmission, not over it. It's great on cooler and cold days. Open-roof drives on cold days are underappreciated.
For all its bluster and machismo, "It's still a Doge" is basically how I've always felt about Vipers. Full disclosure: my family had Corvettes, so my whole bias[s] may be showing. BTW, was great to finally meet you the weekend last.
The wiper... the cuper... the viper is everything dodge. It's a line of coca cola at the end of an all nighter. It needs to be, and it needs it all the way
With upholstery and calm silver finish this Viper looks like an MMA fighter in a formal suit
Conor McGregor aka NotoriousMMA
Classic look
Corvettes are like Ivan Drago, over engineered, over refined, chiseled features, and expected to be the pinnacle of sports cars. The Viper is like Rocky Balboa. Raw, tough as nails, trains by punching sides of beef and lifting oxen yokes, and not nearly as glamorous, but the better of the two. Even the manufacturers, GM is like the Soviet Government, corrupt, all about power and dominance, and Dodge is like Mickey, old school, gritty, and unorthodox.
And then the suit rips off the moment you kick the throttle. Now that's showmanship!
@@Mr.Marbles like if they made the F Type bigger
The “Unga Bunga” segment is pure gold!!!
URRRR I DO THE GOOD NARRATION GRUNGA DUNGA
😅😅😅😅 fr I'm dead
I can imagine unga bunga spits from miles away😂
Gurgling V8 engines make my brain work like that
"SMEGMENT"
Damn almost 20 years old. Still looks new
It's timeless
No it doesn’t. It looks good, but not new.
@@user59371it looks new enough tho. Like a restomod tbh
That might be more of an insult to Mopar than a compliment to the Viper
@@questionablekumquats4437 lol
We're spoiled with this one. 22 glorious minutes of RCR comedy.
Awwwthankyouuuuu
Yea this is one of his classics already
Also not a proper one
Best one this year
This is one of the best written episodes of all time, I can't even begin to pick my favorite quotes
Theres no better way to procrastinate logging into your work PC at the start of the week than watching an RCR video.
I’ve owned two Vipers - a gen 1 RT/10 and a gen 2 GTS. The stock catalytic converters get so hot and they’re right by your feet. On my gen 1, I eliminated the cats. On the Gen 2, I switched to high flow cats and relocated them. This was the best thing I ever did as it significantly reduced the heat in the cabin in both cases.
Disagree, have a stock gen 2 rt/10. Love feeling the cats heat up whenever I mash the gas. It is inefficient, but you feel how much gas you are wasting.
@@lawrencebmarshall I respect that. The only other concern is the paint tends to bubble and/or brown on those rockers with the stock cats. On my gen 1, it bubbled really bad.
I did the same thing with my gen 1 Viper. Straight piped and Montana registered. Gained me 25 HP and torque.
What's great about the gen 1 Viper is you can easily program the OBD1 ECM and get 450 HP and 500 TQ.
Oh man, my first job was working front desk at am embassy suites. A local guy (not a guest, just someone who was in the town) had one of these and used to swing by the hotel every once in a while to show off. I asked him to see it, and he took me around the block for a spin. Was talking to me about the car and all that then I had to go back into work. About a minute after going back in, I see his wife outside chewing him out, asking what he was doing out and why he's giving random people rides and just completely screaming at him haha. Good times
If I got the car, I’d do the exact same thing and have the same thing happen to me.
I love this man, mainly because I'll take anyone for a ride in any of my shit
This is one of the few cars where it's not the drivers associated with them that are annoying, it's everyone else who wants one but can't who are.
What if one of those who want one strikes it rich through no fault of their own? Do they just instantly stop being annoying?
Should we be giving Vipers to assholes in the world to mellow them out?
@@h8GWI’ve kinda been a real dick lately, so I don’t think giving it a shot would hurt anyone
@@h8GWanime profile picture detected, statement rejected
Do you speak it? English MF? Quote from Pulp Fiction - don't ask your mom to report comments 😅
The owner wearing a helmet, even though on public roads, looks bad ass and completely normal for this car.
You should wear a helmet in a Viper. It won't save you, but at least it'll keep your face identifiable.
And then they didn't blur out his Maryland license plate number...
his name must be Ryan Cooper
@@admiralrng6506MUH MAN!
@@TheRealColBosch weird that you think everyone is a bad driver like you. The Viper isn't made for femboys that are used to tiny displacement buzz bombs. Its meant for talented drivers.
The Vipers always felt like cars specifically made for video games which checks out considering how many games they appeared in and it's probably where many found out about the Viper. Seems like as racing games evolved so did the Viper, like every generation represents a specific era in gaming.
Dodge be like:
Hurry up boys, Gran Turismo 4 is coming and we need another Viper!
That might explain why Gran Turismo Sport only has one Viper, hidden away as a racing car- it was discontinued the same year GTS came out.
the viper is just an american bugatti, its not practical and sucks on a track but its there to display how much power you can push in an engine and drag fast
@@schizofennecyou litteraly have no clue what you are talking about. Its litteraly a trackcar
Yep. 'Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed' was the first place I ever saw a Viper.
“…It makes you feel the way Guy Fieri thinks he looks” ☠️☠️☠️
He was just referencing the cocaine here, right?
It’s not just the heat, it’s how low you sit in the car. There’s no airflow at all even with the top down. Driving a Viper is entertaining for the first 25 minutes, then you’re tired and hot.
just like my girlfriend
@@mikehall3976zing
@@mikehall3976Yes she is!
@@mikehall3976Winner!!
It’s not hot in a 2008 coupe
This was one of the funniest, and realest, intros ever. Gold star for RCR
That 'Forklift Certified' had me dead 💀
forklift memeposting in video format
Every kid was the dodge viper in racing games 😂
I was the Infiniti G35
Don't forget, low poly (if it was the 90s/low 2000s
The 1st-gen Viper could quite possibly be the most gorgeous non-hypercar ever made. The 3rd gen's cute and all, but there's something about the way the first Viper looks like an actual viper.
Will I ever own one of these things? God, I hope not. I'm a child of the 80s and my first cars were a 1989 Chrysler New Yorker and a 1991 Plymouth Grand Voyager.
I know, right? It's a miracle I'm still alive.
The gen-1 Viper (particularly the blue GTS with white hugger stripes) will remain the poster-girl of my dreams. And just like Giselle or any of the Victoria's Secret models, I'm certain the reality has no hopes of living up to the dream.
Yet another fantastic video.
The GTS was Gen 2
There’s no car I love more than a Viper, I grew up loving the Viper, it’s probably THE car that made me a car guy. Like you said, if you like it, you love it.
“My Dodge Dakota vroom vroom as big as viper!” 🤣
HRNGABRUNGAUNGAUNG
YELLOW LIGHT
OTHER SIDE, YELLOW LIGHT
OTHER SIDE, RED LIGHT!
THAT MEANS MY GREEN LIGHT COME HERE!
The Viper is like a tourist town for me. I'd love to experience it briefly by visiting, but all the bs that comes with owning one is something I don't envy.
“Intelligence drops to ungna-bunga level”
I’m going to start using this in real life more, thanks.
Being gone for two months, I just love watching these vids and seeing Mr. Regular cruise around my home area. He even goes past my church at 4:45. Always loved these cars, they just tickle that danger nugget in my caveman brain. Unga Bunga segment had me in tears, especially hoagie fest lol, just PA things
That car is pure 90s kid perfection.
As a gen 3 viper owner (spicy miata)
I am honored these are getting the love they truly deserve now. If RCR made a review on it. Definitely doing something right 🤣
Gen 3's have gotten a little extra love. But they're still and always will be the redheaded stepchild. A one-off design catastrophe that Dodge did off the backend of a 6 month adderal and mescaline fueled binge that they course corrected on with the Gen 4+ after getting sober lol
I agree with that statement, I had a miata and flooring it (automatic sadly) was fun but it took forwever to get to speed and i never felt like i'd lose traction, whereas i hear vipers will just scream "What is traction!?"
@@user-cy3tr8eu8t It’s a lot more than just that.
I like vipers because they are wholly unhinged. It's a car designed by a madman. It's like the turbo MR2 in that way.
this is definitely one of the best reviews you've done. i love how you can create the *feeling* the car instills in you, and so clearly express the societal niche it fills, all in the same sentence. this channel rules
As someone that had a poster and a 1:18 model car of the 2nd gen viper as a kid, I'm definitely in the "If you like it, you love it" camp. It is one of those cars that people definitely take notice when it shows up.
Almost snorted out my noodles on “it’ll leave you feeling the way Guy Fieri thinks he looks”
I always wanted a viper.
Me too. Hopefully there will be plenty of Vipers left by the time I can save some money.
@@Vicky-Hugh-Martininew viper is a ev cross over
The owners wearing a helmet to protect his identity? Its quite obvious that's The Stig
This car was a symbol of what a brand can do like a super high lever halo car, but not what they want to make the market on, on the other hand man did it work because I still want one years later
"Side pipe exhaust that looks like the gaping mouth of an old man forced to perceive primary colors in the month of June" has me fucking rolling at 9AM.
The viper is just a raw go fast machine and that's pretty cool. It also looks pretty darn good. Corvettes have been too fancy for their own good for years. Plus there are tons of them around. Vipers are a different breed.
My thoughts exactly 💯
I was always really good at racing games
And that intro is EXACTLY what happened every time i played multiplayer with my cousins
That's me with single-player AI in some cases. Like if *I* pulled speedhacks or whatever in an online multiplayer server, I'd be rightfully banned for that, but the single-player AI can spam them as much as it wants seemingly?
As someone who drives a 2001 dodge ram rcsb with a 5spd and a 318 who revved all (and im being generous here) 300 hp and maybe 320 lbft in a 5k lb truck, at a 2nd gen viper on my commute home, and then was giddy when the viper driver waved and zoomed away, I loved this video lol
I almost wanna say the game at the start is Midnight Club 3 Dub Edition Remix, but it's in practically everything.
The 50AE DEagle of cars.
Gran Turismo probably
This whole notion that vipers can’t corner comes from nothing but bad drivers. Vipers have perfect weight distribution and are light as hell with massive tires. Carroll shelby is quoted saying “The viper is as close as you can get to driving a race car on the road”
Describing seeing a Viper as lowering your intelligence to unga bunga levels is SO true.
I think this might be one of the best written RCR episodes... it fore sure is one of my favorites... great work mr. Regular!
Props to the owner, that interior is hella nice
So good. One of my two all-time dream cars is a 1997 Dodge Viper GTS. THat's what got me into cars and it still looks better than any other Viper except maybe the RT/10 to me.
Vipers are just the best, man, as the performance V10 engine enters it's epilogue w/ both Audi and Lamborghini, V10 powertrains will be sorely missed!
I just knew RCR is the BEST car review show on Earth the moment I heard the "Unga-Bunga VVROOOOM VVRROOOOOM!!!" rant. 😂
Viper is special and worthy because it does not pretend to be anything it's not. The car never tries to be anything more than a huge engine, manual gearbox, two seats and four wheels bolted together to put the biggest shit-eating grin on the face of everyone who sees, rides in, and/or drives it
I wonder if it would be fair to call the viper lazy and cool since every other car has a ton of engineering put into multiple facets like the interior, safety, routing exhaust, etc. and they spend years making it all work. But none of those "extras" in the Viper. Dodge decided "eh let's not do those useless things and focus on only these things."
Either that or Dodge had a limited budget and/or tight timeline and made the decision to focus only on the driving experience!
Im forklift certified and seeing a viper is enough to make me go full cave man and i love it for that
this is a scam dont click any links they post, RCR will never put promotions in youtube comments
Gen 3 Viper and a C7 Grans sport are two cars that just have it all looks wise.
That "unga bunga" effect also applies to anyone who sees a sportbike or pickup trucks around semis. I'm really glad I grew out of it.
6:33 that’s how I feel driving around in my 88 RX seven. It’s the only car I have, and everyone is constantly trying to mess with me and I’m like I’m just trying to get some fried chicken or a burger or something. 😅
I used to own an '89 IROC with a warmed-over 350 and a cam and every punter from Pittsburgh to Punxsutawney wanted a piece of me. It really got tiring after a while. I'm not gonna race you man. I got nothing to prove to you. I know what I have and I know what you have.
Also I would like to say, to any guy out there who thinks buying a cool car is going to get you women: No. Get that thought out of your stupid head right the fuck now. A cool car will not get you a woman. I've owned a few cool cars, and I can count on no hands the number of women who have told me "Wow that's a cool car, I want to sleep with you". I have however LOST COUNT of the number of dudes that have come up to me at gas stations or parking lots or wherever saying "Wow that's a cool car, I always wanted one/used to have one/buddy had one in high school/etc". Cars aren't chick magnets. They're Chuck magnets.
Buy the cool car because you like it and you want it. Not because you think it'll get you laid.
Trying dailying a 2nd gen ctsv. Always gotta be ON . JUST IN CASE
Try driving a 08 cobra mustang every burger King employee with a auto zoned v6 dodge challenger wants to follow me to the gas station endlessly reving there heat sheald rattling rasp box only to tell me there whole life story while I try and pump my gas. Owning this car is painful enough at the gas station with out having to hear about "your wife's uncles best friends 68 gt 500 that's only got 0 miles on it and how you get it when he dies." I really fight the urge to feel superior to the Wal-Mart mountain dew people but they make it so easy.
@@robertstone9988 every v6 Dodge product and Nissan Altima think they andretti
On the rare occasion I drive my track prepped SW20 on the street I get this. I'm a magnet for every single Golf R/AMG/Mwhatever
It's funny because I pretty much always pull away incredibly slowly due to the finicky twin plate clutch. I never launch the car either, as sticky tyres and hard launches is a great way to kill your driveshafts.
Everyone that had a Lamborghini Countach poster on their wall, eventually had a first gen Viper poster either replacing it or tacked up next to it. No frames, you push pined that bastard into the drywall.
It gives you less rear view visibility than looking back at a high school relationship. Damn that hits home
Your timestamp labels continue to be one of the most entertaining parts to follow during the episode
You know rcr, i used to love to watch your videos when sober, but now i grabbed a couple of cold ones and i should say it is just brilliant
Dodge Viper: the car that actively tries to kill the driver.
So does Ferrari but in a different way
Justin Bell and Tanner Foust have both said pushing production Vipers is scary, so much torque and not enough chassis. The race cars are entirely different cars so they aren't comparable. Obviously the ACRs sorted alot of the issues out mainly add as much down force as possible and pray
“The only thing he has had to eat today is a handle of makers mark and a plate of cold pizza cheese” lolololol 😂 I spit out my pizza and old fashion hearing that!!!!
Don't forget that this gen actually broke the Nurburg speed record for production cars... on stock tires.... A record that stood for years, and I believe he's still one of the only cars to break the record with factory equipped tires.
Oh, the famous "Nuremberg" ring. Not to confuse with Nürburg... 😁
The Nuremberg record of how many crimes against humanity I presume
Aren’t you referring to the Gen 4 ACR? Not the Gen 3?
@@AndrasMihalyi autocorrect ffs ;)
@@TheRenegade. correct.
I love driving the viper in GT7, it's my main car and even with alot of curves it's a beast to use when I want to have fun
Also the Viper in Europe : Wins everything
Europe : ok your car needs to be fair so we have to make your car heavier.
Viper : Keeps winning.
Europe : Ok we need to limit your power for we reduced the amount of displacement.
Viper : Fills in 2 cylinders and still keeps winning.
Europe : Bruh stahp.
The lesson is, if the Americans wake up one morning and decide they're going to beat you at something, it's a question of "when", not "if".
Yes, I'm aware the Oreca Vipers were something of a team effort.
Its like audi in america in the 80s
The Zakspeed V8 Vipers are underappreciated race cars, still quick and even cooler sounding.
Please turn the vroom vroom bit into its own video. That was spot on!
Now my Monday can officially start.
Man that viper looks great. Handsome, masculine, aggressive. Its a good trophy car.
I used to find my Del Sol too hot, so much I'd lift my shirt not drench it in sweat. Can't imagine how hot that car is 😂
Took one trip 8 hour trip around the Olympic peninsula with my wife in our new (to us) 1998 Viper and she told me to sell it 😂 ... I didn't protest. Don't meet your heroes, kids.
The viper videos are always full of my favorite one liners. "built to shorten your lifespan." Made me hard. The "its for you" portion of the video is also amazing and "feeling the whole engine through my big toe" is so relatable. Happy to know I'm not the only one that does that lol.
this is a scam dont click any links they post, RCR will never put promotions in youtube comments
@@schizofennec It's not my first day on the internet lol. I gotcha.
I love how all viper reviews end up being "its a piece of shit, I love it"
@ClickOnProfile11 i got my balls in that box for you
I actually looked up that article he referenced in the video. It's online you can read it if you want. By the numbers the handling difference are negligible. The Viper beat the Zo6 by a pretty sizable margin on the road course but was on .3 quicker in the 1/4 mile. The Vette was actually quick in the high end acceleration. Mr. Regular loves just saying stuff and expecting everyone to take it as true. Despite the Viper beating the Zo6 in most performance categories they picked the Vette as the winner.
Another annoying Viper "fact" that just won't die.
Kinda like the "it's a truck engine" one...
@NA-en7kz it is based on a truck engine. It's basically a 360 with two extra cylinders. That's why it has such a unique exhaust note. The engine has an uneven firing order because it's a 90 degree v10 instead of 72 degrees. The truck version of the v10 is iron the Viper version is aluminum.
@@nickthompson318 It isn't. The guys that made the vehicle have said as much. The truck V10 came out in 94, after the Viper.
The truck V-10 shares the same basic dimensions, and 8 liter capacity, however, the 8.0 Magnum in the Ram 2500 and 3500 trucks was a totally different engine design.
As a gen V owner it’s so true about other drivers. Anyone who’s into cars will lose it when they see your viper. Will try and race, tailgate, follow, take pictures etc. for the first week of ownership it felt good..after that I find myself only driving it with friends on a cruise.
A video that actually benefits from the giveaway promotion.
Good job guys.
The metaphor of the rugby players drunk off hard seltzer playing with a water balloon launcher was spot on.
Dodge Viper designed by the guy who gave us the 427 Cobra. Kinda why they are so alike. It's funny back in the day the same complaints were very similar about the Cobra when they were brand new. However, the 427 dual quad Ford never Chugged lol
The Vette may be a better car. But the Viper is far far more fun, and sometimes in life, it’s nice to be back in the shoes of your more childish self, doing or owning something not because it’s it’s a more logical approach, but because it’s more fun
Happy to see your channel growing so much, enjoy your banter and comedy in the videos
Dark but actually happened, there was a kid that used to come to car meets in SWFL in his dad's Viper. He ended up killing his own father, not sure of the motive but the whole bit about inheriting a Viper kinda made me think.
I had two friends die in one. He lost traction coming over a bridge here in SEFL crashed and both of them passed away. They are one of the most dangerous to drive and require discipline to operate
You know the gimp suit guy that was in front of the South Bend Ponderosa? I'll tell my cousin you said hello.
Mr. Regular, props for leaning onto the a-pillar and NOT the steering wheel like so many do with these cars!
You won me back with this review. I had unsubscribed more than a year ago, but my son forwarded this to me. As a Gen 1 Viper owner I very much appreciated this. Thanks for the laughs!
Sweating harder than a pedestrian at a mustang meet 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Corvettes are pretty but I'll take a Viper any day
I cant tell you, just how accurate the bit about unga bunga level intelligence driving next to a viper. Had that happen too many times, and it's always a Hyundai Genesis or Chrysler 200
As the owner of an 06 coupe, just about every word is absolutely spot on. Just today a Ram felt the need to try to do a pull on me while I was cruising in the right lane. In general it seems Mustangs aren't capable of passing without putting on a show. Just chill guys. And when people want a burnout... nah, these tires are $700 each. I'm not turning all the grip I paid for into smoke.
And no, we aren't racing your 350z either. I don't care how "mean" it sounds with it's turbo and titanium fart rod sticking a foot out your backside. 😂
My two favorite American sports cars in one video, absolutely poetically explained. Don’t think it gets better than this. Love it 👌🏼🇺🇸🦅
The grill on that thing makes it look like an angry dodge stratus.
Dodge viper ....the official car of someone who lets a you tube channel review his car ....but doesnt want to be on you tube
SRT= Seared, Roasted, and Toasted.
The 3rd gen has always been my favorite viper ever since I saw the GTS-R version in Midnight club 2 😍
Some innocent soul is going to stumble across this channel oneday completely oblivious, and is gonna get hit like a cruise missle to the face with "dirt-devil by smegma".
This is so accurate. I own a 2000 ACR and the few times I get it out to enjoy the drive it’s usually ruined by a random guy in unga bunga mode. Usually a Mustang. Corvette drivers don’t bother me, they actually try to avoid eye contact.
My favorite memory of this car is from Gran Turismo 3 I wanna say. When that game came out you could transfer 1 million credits from your old GT save game memory card. This was enough credits to buy a SRT-10 Viper, and mods. It made the beginning races so easy.
I would love to see you guys do every gen of the viper because i feel like the viper is one of those vehicles that doesn’t evolve in its nature but drives, feels, and is a completely different car every generation
The funniest thing about these other than the cliche that they are trying to kill you, I love that you can see where the exhausts are burning the paint from the backside of the panels haha.... That shit makes me laugh so much
"Dirt-devil my smegma!" There it is. Never before in human history have those words been used in a sentence. Well done.
i love watching your videos while i play gran turismo 7 on my ps5, this video made me pull out my viper on the game lol
I owned a Miata for a while and the pedal box felt narrow compared to my 370z. I ended up buying a pair of Piloti shoes that ended up working a lot better since they're pretty narrow.
Having driven both, there's something wrong with that viper. It looks like the cats are clogged which is why there is yellowing behind the front tires, its burning the paint. Otherwise you can let the clutch out in 2nd and it should easily start without hitting the gas.
@@user-cy3tr8eu8t I was actually the VP for the VOA in MD for a few years. Though I dont recognize this viper or the owner. I sold my 04 last year to get a 4th gen.
I don't think it's the original paint.
I've a silver one and at almost 100k miles, with no yellowing.
@@NA-en7kz it'll do that if the cats get clogged and overheat.
So many things to refute, if I had the time... BUT I am 6'2" with size 12 shoes and the pedal footwell of my 2004 Viper is HUGE! My Porsche has less than 2/3 of the space.
Taking your shoes off to drive a Gen3 Viper is ridiculous.
Seriously, not even remotely accurate.
Being a fan of Chevrolet is your right, and Corvettes are some amazing cars throughout automotive history.
Bashing the Dodge Viper with untrue (measurements vs opinion) is beneath a respected car influencer like you.
Enjoy your videos still. Great content.
Again, I have big feet and big shoes and my Gen3 Viper has tons of room, even more than my Porsche, which also had plenty of room.
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You're not wrong. Every car show I go to I just watch how long it takes before the owner starts to get annoyed with people telling their life stories or how "I'm a 90s kid and I used this all the time in Gran Turismo 1."
The c6 might be a better performing car, but the viper would be so much more fun to drive. It stands out where a vette just blends because it’s just a vette. But it’d be a hard choice between a viper and a c6 zo6.
If you can, go with the Viper.
This was easily the funniest RCR I’ve seen in recent memory.. even better than the 5.0 or WRX vids
It's Pratt & Whitney, not Pat & Whitney. Sorry, airplane geek here so had to correct you 😂
The MG B is similar in that you're seated next to the transmission, not over it. It's great on cooler and cold days. Open-roof drives on cold days are underappreciated.
For all its bluster and machismo, "It's still a Doge" is basically how I've always felt about Vipers. Full disclosure: my family had Corvettes, so my whole bias[s] may be showing.
BTW, was great to finally meet you the weekend last.
The wiper... the cuper... the viper is everything dodge. It's a line of coca cola at the end of an all nighter. It needs to be, and it needs it all the way
Love this car same color as my srt4 can’t get enough of early 2000s n 90s dodge cheap but that was dodge cheap but u want power u got it