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Originally Posted by PhlypSide
Wow you better be able to back up everything you're saying or lay off before the Viper guys start piping up. Perhaps I'll start a poll with your quote above as the inspiration. There are quite a few Viper owners here who would be more than glad to bring you up to speed.
Dakota suspension? Are you crazy? (*cough* leaf springs, on a Viper, those are some quality hallucinogens you're on, please get back to us when you're really "lucid")
Truck motor? Really? Did you come up with that all on your own?  Wow it has the same block, it *must* be the same motor Wait isn't the Viper's V-10 an aluminum block? Isn't the truck's an iron block? Hrmmm. Did Lamborghini also rework the truck motor?
Never mind that the Viper was designed from the ground up to be a sportscar, and has been a very successful one at that. There is no econobox version of a Viper.
The Neon by contrast was designed from the ground up to be an econobox, any versions of it afterwards are merely MacGyvered up econoboxes
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Alright, one, what a very condescending tone you've taken on already. Chill out.
Two, apparently, the Gen I Viper's shared a large portion of their front end with the Dodge Dakota of the period. I blame
www.wikipedia.com for that one. The factuality of this statement can't be backed up with any hard evidence, however, so I concede that point and perhaps should hold back anything I don't know 100%.
Three, while you were busy being condescending, you should've realized the sarchasm in my entire post. Maybe if you actually read to understand, and not read to react, you would've picked up my point: by your logic, the engine from the Viper is just a truck engine because it came from a truck. "But the block was changed and a whole bunch of blah blah blah," apparently that doesn't matter. I gave you the example of the dodge Neon, and no matter how much work had been done, it didn't matter that the car was in no way a neon anymore. Since it had started with an 'econo-box' it will always be an 'econo-box.' Either admit you're wrong and that any car can become a sports car, or admit that at the viper's heart lies a mediocre (in terms of performance) pickup.
PS: I think the viper is an excellent sports car. I was mocking your logic when I called it a pickup. Chill.