GTP Cool Wall: 2015+ Dodge Viper ACR

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2015+ Dodge Viper ACR

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I love it, but as said many times, it looks tacky (says the one with a car that has a big wing and airscoop as his avatar :lol:) and you'd look like an idiot to most people if you drove it on the road (it is still a roadcar so people will drive them on the road), because of these reasons I voted uncool.
 
Oh this one hurts.

Completely bat-🤬 insane, looks fantastic, sounds even better, a million times more appealing than the Corvette (to me) and still completely impractical in the most charming way possible.

Sigh.

Uncool.
 
JAHHAJ
I love it, but as said many times, it looks tacky (says the one with a car that has a big wing and airscoop as his avatar :lol:) and you'd look like an idiot to most people if you drove it on the road (it is still a roadcar so people will drive them on the road), because of these reasons I voted uncool.
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I still don't know who these people are. 99.9999999% of the time there is a supercar on the road, people flock to it with praise and iPhone cameras. At least in my experience. The people who look down on cars tend to be [semi]car people, who are supposedly (?) uncool which makes their opinions uncool (?).

Heck, the last time I saw a Ferrari F40 trying to get over a speed bump in front of luxury hotel with all the grace of a hippo with broken legs wading through a pool of mud, there were still a couple of guys practically standing on it trying to get photos. Sometimes I think I live a parallel universe with regards to popular conceptions of car, but I'm fine with that because based on what I hear I live in the good universe.

Also, what is idiotic about driving a car on the road? How else will you get to the race track if you don't live there?

All Your Base
Chintzy bodykit on a supercar.
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It doesn't even have a body kit, unless you count the louvers I guess. And I don't have the slightest idea what's chintzy about it.
 
Exorcet
I still don't know who these people are. 99.9999999% of the time there is a supercar on the road, people flock to it with praise and iPhone cameras. At least in my experience. The people who look down on cars tend to be [semi]car people, who are supposedly (?) uncool which makes their opinions uncool (?).

Heck, the last time I saw a Ferrari F40 trying to get over a speed bump in front of luxury hotel with all the grace of a hippo with broken legs wading through a pool of mud, there were still a couple of guys practically standing on it trying to get photos. Sometimes I think I live a parallel universe with regards to popular conceptions of car, but I'm fine with that because based on what I hear I live in the good universe.

Also, what is idiotic about driving a car on the road? How else will you get to the race track if you don't live there?
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People who flock to supercars aren't what I'd call cool, a fair amount of the people who flock to supercars probably don't even know what it is they just think "oooh fancy supercar lets take some pics", that isn't what I'd think of as cool, even the people who know what they're talking about when it comes to cars aren't deemed as cool, so if an uncool person is doing something I'd personally class as uncool is uncool in my opinion.

There is nothing uncool about driving a car on the road, it's the some peoples perceptions when it comes to flash cars, they may like the car but they still might think you're uncool driving a track car on the road and in my opinion you're definitely uncool if you drive a supercar through narrow streets of places like London and Paris.
 
JAHHAJ
People who flock to supercars aren't what I'd call cool, a fair amount of the people who flock to supercars probably don't even know what it is they just think "oooh fancy supercar lets take some pics", that isn't what I'd think of as cool, even the people who know what they're talking about when it comes to cars aren't deemed as cool, so if an uncool person is doing something I'd personally class as uncool is uncool in my opinion.
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Wouldn't this leave you with nothing being cool? People who don't know aren't cool, people who do know aren't cool, what's left?

There is nothing uncool about driving a car on the road, it's the some peoples perceptions when it comes to flash cars, they may like the car but they still might think you're uncool driving a track car on the road and in my opinion you're definitely uncool if you drive a supercar through narrow streets of places like London and Paris.
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Well the point was, you kind of have to drive it on the road even if you only bought it for track use. There are two alternatives; packing it in a trailer (even worse for tight streets) or living at the race track. People might not think of it this way, but a racecar on the road is very similar to a minivan on the road. It's just trying to get from point A to B.
 
Exorcet
Wouldn't this leave you with nothing being cool? People who don't know aren't cool, people who do know aren't cool, what's left?

Well the point was, you kind of have to drive it on the road even if you only bought it for track use. There are two alternatives; packing it in a trailer (even worse for tight streets) or living at the race track. People might not think of it this way, but a racecar on the road is very similar to a minivan on the road. It's just trying to get from point A to B.
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Tbh with the way I explained it you're probably right with nothing being cool :lol:. I just personally don't find a car cool just because a bunch of people run up and take pictures and videos.

Yeah it's true you have to drive it on the road, that in itself isn't uncool, it's just people might not understand why you're driving it on the road when it's meant for the track, them people will think it's strange or uncool that you're doing that. With a trailer you wouldn't take it down tight streets unless it was absolutely necessary, the point I was trying to make there was, some people take flash cars like this down tight streets which is very uncool as it's defeating the object of the fast car, it's meant to get you from a to b fast, not slowly cruising round some popular city streets so it can be shown off to some random people.
 
Vipers are cool for being an old school sports car in a post-millennial world full of gadgets and cars that share more of a resemblance to a supercomputer than a hunk of engineering. The - while overdramatic - Viper is a great car and while some may like the styling, others not; is for me a cool car.
I put it at sub zero.
 
Looks fantastic, sports impressive heritage and performance records, goes like stink and bears one of the best car names of all time. Cool, but, by virtue of being less old, certainly not as cool as its forebearers.
 
A standard Viper would have been seriously cool. But with all the ACR add ons it looks like it's trying too hard. So meh it is.
 
Tacky (-)
Due to current program (2016+) no two cars will be alike (+)
Intentional Collector's Item?

The tackiness weighs down the "1 of 1 program" Dodge is placing on this car. Meh.
 
peobryant
Which allows the car to take the corners at a higher speed, which translates to faster lap times. So I'd say it would be perfectly correct to say downforce makes the car faster, just not faster in a straight line.
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Just "faster" pretty much does mean faster in a straight line, that was my point. "Faster in corners" or "Faster lap times" is correct, but that's not what was implied.
 
I love it, just like I love the new Z06, the 911 GT2, etc. But also like those other cars, it's tacky, it's ridiculously impractical, and it's priced way out of reach for almost everyone. Uncool.
 
Blitz24
The tackiness weighs down the "1 of 1 program" Dodge is placing on this car. Meh.
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I think it's one of the most awesome things of all time. As awesome as making Viper GTS Blue an exclusive color was one of the worst things of all time. If everyone did this, it would save someone buying a nice car the need to immediately repaint it because all the colors are terrible. I happen to run into this more often than I'd like looking through color palettes. I also can't stand when options seem arbitrarily separated from each other, like a certain interior/exterior paint combination, or certain wheels combined with whatever trim level.

If it was the draw to being unique you're talking about then I can agree with a meh. I wouldn't care about have a 1 of 1, I'd rather it not look terrible for no reason.
 
synchromesh
Vipers are cool for being an old school sports car in a post-millennial world full of gadgets and cars that share more of a resemblance to a supercomputer than a hunk of engineering. The - while overdramatic - Viper is a great car and while some may like the styling, others not; is for me a cool car.
I put it at sub zero.
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I think that might be true of the 1st gen Viper and slightly less so with the 2nd gen, but with the 3rd gen I feel like Dodge (or SRT or whatever they call it) finally succumbed to making it more modern and techy. It's still far less technologically advanced then say a Ferrari, but I don't think it's the brute it once was.
 
Joey D
I think that might be true of the 1st gen Viper and slightly less so with the 2nd gen, but with the 3rd gen I feel like Dodge (or SRT or whatever they call it) finally succumbed to making it more modern and techy. It's still far less technologically advanced then say a Ferrari, but I don't think it's the brute it once was.
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Of course. Nothing is outdated on it but things like a naturally aspirated engine larger than a V8 and a standard 6 speed manual set it apart.
 
Tyger
Just "faster" pretty much does mean faster in a straight line, that was my point. "Faster in corners" or "Faster lap times" is correct, but that's not what was implied.
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I suppose it could've been made clearer, but when we're talking about a track based car I think most people understand faster to mean faster around the track as a whole. If we're talking Muscle cars from the 60's or 70's, yeah, I could see faster meaning straight line speed. 👍
 
Tornado
It takes about 10 years for any typical Viper generation to be cool.
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I feel like the Earth will fall to solar death before the 2003 SRT10 is ever cool.

Danny
Oh this one hurts.

Completely bat-🤬 insane, looks fantastic, sounds even better, a million times more appealing than the Corvette (to me) and still completely impractical in the most charming way possible.

Sigh.

Uncool.
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Exact thought process, pretty much to the word. The last ACR didn't do much for me but this one is exciting. I just can't call it Cool with a straight face.

:(
 

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