Vehicle Type Owners tend to rave about all aspects of performance and style Performance car History/Description After a brief absence from the market, the fifth-generation Dodge Viper re-emerged without the Dodge badge for model year 2013, gaining extra power and torque, and packing all-new engineering, safety, refinement, and a n

Vehicle Type Viper owners love the looks, exclusivity, crowd-gathering effects, and of course, the performance of their machines. Performance Coupe / Convertible History/Description Sadly, and for the second time in recent history, the Dodge Viper has come to the end of its lifespan. The latest-generation Viper, which launched

“That car should be at home!” There was an elderly gentleman beside me, grinning widely from the seat of a Chrysler 300 SRT8 , at a set of lights near Conner Avenue and 8 Mile Road in Detroit. It was November, and a sopping wet Friday morning just after 7:30 a.m. I was in my Dodge Viper: a 2000 GTS Coupe . Black with grey stripes. This was the

For 25 years, the Dodge Viper has awed, impressed, and scared performance-car buyers around the world. And now, production of the V10-powered monster has finally stopped at the Conner Avenue factory that has built it since 1996. So in celebration of massive displacement, massive tires, massive power, and massive fuel bills, here's a Mega Find of th

Dodge has announced that 2017 is going to be that last year for the Viper. It's also going to be the 25th anniversary of the first Viper RT/10, way back in 1992. So in order to help it go out with a little more than a whimper, Dodge has announced five limited editions to help end the run. The first is the 1:28 Edition ACR. It is a tribute to the

'Be so good they can't ignore you' is a phrase any young performer hears when they first start their careers. The idea that you can rise to the top based on your talent and willingness to work hard is a time-honoured tenet that's been passed down from one generation to next since time immemorial. It also happens to be a lie. If it were true, the

by Justin Pritchard The Dodge Viper : a V10 powered American lung-squisher with 640 horsepower; a storied history of primitive and low-tech charm; crushing performance to make thrice-the-price exotics blush in embarrassment. The Dodge Viper isn’t a car for everyone – but if you want to turn heads, tell fellow motorists that you’re a boss of

The house that built Vipers for 22 years no longer makes V10-powered monsters, but it will live on. Fiat Chrysler is turning the Conner Avenue plant into a museum. The Conner Avenue Assembly plant in Detroit opened in 1966. The building was originally used by Champion to manufacture spark plugs, before being purchased by Chrysler in 1995. The pl

At autoTRADER.ca we are blessed with award-winning contributors who write high-quality content fuelled by their passion for cars and driving. Their ability to turn even a mainstream car into a compelling story makes for some amazing memories. As 2016 rolls to a stop we’ve asked them all to share their favourites from the year gone. The b

At autoTRADER.ca we are blessed with award-winning contributors who write high-quality content fuelled by their passion for cars and driving. Their ability to turn even a mainstream car into a compelling story makes for some amazing memories. As 2016 rolls to a stop we’ve asked them all to share their favourites from the year gone. 2016

Originally published on Autos.ca on May 7, 2013 ( Best Used Convertible Buys ) Summer: the bugs are in the air, the temperature is climbing and the roads are finally free of salt, sand and other wintertime nastiness. This combination of stimuli inevitably prompts the brains of car lovers everywhere to start considering a new-to-them convertible

The manual transmission is dying. Every 43 seconds in Canada, another car loses a manual transmission option. In other countries, automatics are reserved almost solely for the handicapped and the elderly. In Canada, they’re becoming the norm – and manual transmissions cars will soon become as rare as Target stores as extinction looms. God gav

It's been nearly 20 years since Maximillion Cooper and a small group of wealthy, yet somewhat unhinged friends organized their first rally that saw a pack of supercars and celebrities party their way from England to Italy. In the interim, the Gumball 3000 Rally has become a rare example of corporate-sponsored debauchery, with routes and exploits gr

Every once in a while there’s a new car feature that screams “LOOK AT ME” at the top of its lungs, something that exists solely to serve as a black hole intent on sucking down the attention of anyone and everyone in the immediate vicinity. And yet, a handful of these designer-gone-mad features actually aren’t flights of fancy, but valid choices mad

Today is Star Wars Day, and if you don’t know why “May the Fourth” gets that honour then you probably didn’t click on the link to get this far. The Star Wars franchise is the 800 lb wookie in the world of entertainment. Movies, games, books, toys, sheets, commemorative plates, flamethrowers [Evan , I think that last one’s the wrong movie. –Ed.]