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New Dodge Viper Book Will Look Back at the Mad V10 Roadster
It s still hard to believe Dodge actually built this car in the early 1990s.
At a time when American sports cars had not fully gotten the smell of Malaise out of their cabins, the Dodge Viper arrived on the scene to show that performance cars of the 1990s didn t have to be boring or rehashes of decade-old designs. The original Viper was certainly rough around the edges, featuring a notoriously budget-grade interior, and was a handful to handle even at a fraction of its performance envelope. But the Viper showed the brand s potential during a crossroads for American performance cars, which at that point in time was running on fumes from the 1980s, and had largely capitulated to imports from Japan.