In the car world, the car or the car company was born to become implacable opponent of another car. One of the examples is the Ferrari and Lamborghini.
In the U.S. also has a pair of super car born to be rivals, it was the Chevrolet Corvette and Dodge Viper. The war between the two super muscle car has existed for decades and there is no sign that it will soon end. Even supercar owners of two also occurs wars on all the car forums.
And also the from special war between the Chevrolet Corvette and Dodge Viper, a special variant of the Dodge Viper SRT has been developed, called the SRT Viper car TA, where TA is the acronym for Time Attack.
According to MotorAuthority, the car was built as a response to the post-test comparison between the Corvette ZR1 and Viper GTS at Laguna Sedan, this comparison is done by MotorTrend.
In comparison, Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 won and currently holds the record for completing a lap time in the race. This result led the development team SRT Viper supercar are not satisfied. TA and SRT Viper is built to win back record that Corvette ZR1 is holding.
The car is equipped with a technical support package "Time Attack", which is a special software package was done with the test and on the track. Built from standard SRT Viper instead of the high-end variant SRT Viper GTS, SRT Viper TA is equipped with dual-mode dampers Bilstein Damptronic, like dampers on the SRT Viper GTS, but with the set other to bring performance more stable and will only small differences between the two modes option.
Springs and strut suspension is adjusted to give the same performance as race cars, high-performance braking system are also used to replace the standard brake system.
The aerodynamic design of the car was also modified to improve performance, with the addition of a carbon fiber front bumper and fixed wing pressed close behind, to help raise the pressure down the road when driving at high speeds. All of these changes focus on improving performance on the track for the SRT Viper TA.
After the car was complete with fitted a new pair of rear wheel, the car was launched test run to verify the results that the SRT engineering team have made.
Head of SRT Ralph Gilles, said, "Our engineers have modified the suspension settings in order to re-orient the performance of Viper, particularly towards the ability to complete tasks on track, using a mixture of the components of the SRT Viper GTS and the Viper SRT standard version, and package complement each vehicle equipped with a new aerodynamic.
The car not only has the ability to operate like the existing version we do, we aim to build a car for customers who want a machine that works on a real race track . "
In addition to the tweaks, the rest of the SRT Viper TA mainly changes in appearance, with red or orange brake brake, the car also has the logo "viper" new orange suit new tone color schemes on the car, besides la-zang Sidewinder II.
Inside, the equipment on the SRT Viper TA is not much different than the standard SRT Viper. The biggest difference in this car is probably located in the black leather chair with the prominent orange stitches.
The heart of this car weighs 1,520 kg block is 8.4 liter V10 engine from the standard, with a maximum power of 640 hp, maximum torque 812 Nm.
TA will only have 33 SRT Viper is built, so not many people have the joy of owning this car. The car is set to record on the track, but the owner of the SRT Viper is possible to drive this car off the street.
Dodge Viper SRT TA will officially launch the public at the New York International Auto Show 2013, which takes place next week. There is no information about the price of this car, and there is no information on Viper SRT vehicles have been ordered. Dodge will begin to build the SRT Viper supercar TA in the third quarter of this year.
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