ACR Review

[Boosted Motorsports]

Stumbled across this video of an ACR review! Thoughts on their opinion of the car (welds, "tamed down" viper) ?

[bkrone]

Been posted before not too long ago and thoughts were made.

[Dman]

Haha, uh oh, here we go again.

[Snakebit10]

Whine-fest from start to finish. Ok the weld thing I agree with. That's bad, but the rest? Sounds like they were looking for everything to complain about and nothing about the performance of the car. You know its nonsense when he complains about the steering wheel is too close and then adjusts the seat and says its too far lol. They found everything to complain about. They hated the rawness of the first Vipers when they were raw. Now they are much more refined and now thats a problem because it needs to be raw. LOL. Then he compares a million dollar Pagani bits with a 130k Dodge with all seriousness. Total madness.

[Boosted Motorsports]

Whine-fest from start to finish. Ok the weld thing I agree with. That's bad, but the rest? Sounds like they were looking for everything to complain about and nothing about the performance of the car. You know its nonsense when he complains about the steering wheel is too close and then adjusts the seat and says its too far lol. They found everything to complain about. They hated the rawness of the first Vipers when they were raw. Now they are much more refined and now thats a problem because it needs to be raw. LOL. Then he compares a million dollar Pagani bits with a 130k Dodge with all seriousness. Total madness.

lol yeah I do agree it was a pretty dumb video. Made me laugh at their comparisons and how it was "not raw enough" yet "too noisy". Sounded like a nonsensical argument with a wife lol. I was trying to figure out who's car it was. At first I thought it was the old skinny guy's car that owned the shop and knew where the hood latch was. When he put the car up and started criticizing everything and like you say making references to components off of much more expensive cars I began to wonder if it was his car?

[SharpMan]

lol yeah I do agree it was a pretty dumb video. Made me laugh at their comparisons and how it was "not raw enough" yet "too noisy". Sounded like a nonsensical argument with a wife lol. I was trying to figure out who's car it was. At first I thought it was the old skinny guy's car that owned the shop and knew where the hood latch was. When he put the car up and started criticizing everything and like you say making references to components off of much more expensive cars I began to wonder if it was his car?

It's a press demonstrator. Alex Roy is a car writer for The Drive network.

[bluesrt]

gues dodge told those guys no, we are giving you any money, so they are crying the the democrates

[SharpMan]

gues dodge told those guys no, we are giving you any money, so they are crying the the democrates

Funny notion. I've been in lifestyle media for 20 years including automotive and nobody has ever offered me or any writer I know of money.

[texasram]

At first the guy talks as if he not a petrol head and then suddenly he's an engineering genius?? tell me one thing wrong with cast lower control arms

[Donato]

Probably nothing functionally I think he was referring to aesthetics because he compared it to Pagani as being a work of art. I think the pics speak for themselves and I don't have to label which is which. Yes I know there is a serious cost difference between the two.

[commandomatt]

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[Boosted Motorsports]

Probably nothing functionally I think he was referring to aesthetics because he compared it to Pagani as being a work of art. I think the pics speak for themselves and I don't have to label which is which. Yes I know there is a serious cost difference between the two.

Except for that birdshit weld on the lower ball joint of the Pagani

[ViperGeorge]

Probably nothing functionally I think he was referring to aesthetics because he compared it to Pagani as being a work of art. I think the pics speak for themselves and I don't have to label which is which. Yes I know there is a serious cost difference between the two.

Ok the Pagani suspension is beautiful as well it should be for the price.

[texasram]

Ok the Pagani suspension is beautiful as well it should be for the price.

The kind of person who buys a Pagani isnt going to service it himself, thats only way to truely get a view of all that goodness, by removing the wheel or having it on a lift, so you pay all that money for your pagani mechanic to enjoy haha

[Purple Haze]

Hell even I know more than they do about Vipers. Plus they both lack common sense...DUH...

[SharpMan]

Ok the Pagani suspension is beautiful as well it should be for the price.

The Dodge part could be a lot nicer without additional cost. And let's not forget...this is a $100,000-$150,000 car. The control arms on Grand Cherokee are nicer.

You want real control arm porn though...look not further than the original NSX:

https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/...alkaround.html

[Fatboy 18]

Weld splatter has always been a problem with Vipers, tons of it on my Gen II, But I have never heard of a weld braking on a later gen Viper?

Pretty stupid Video

[Snakebit10]

The point is that you can put most cars Porsche, Ferrari, Lambo etc against a Pagani and the Pagani bits will look like sculpted art that it is compared to them. So why bother using Pagani against an Dodge product? Bottom line the ACR driven by a Viper race car driver will beat those cars around a circuit. That is the point of the Viper ACR not to be a poster child for wretched excess. Better off comparing the Bugatti, P1, Laferrari against a Pagani if you want that argument to be taken seriously. Could th eViper parts be more special looking? Sure but we have seen what a hard sell a 150K Viper is so based on the comparative shoestring budget its always had I don't see the point in bashing the parts appearance. Did it whup the pants off the latest and greatest unobtainium cars with MUCH higher RD budgets? Check.

This nitpicking to me is just as ignorant and pointless as the specific output argument that many down it on vs smaller engines. Again it uses pushrods, ohv and doesn't have active aero and torque vectoring etc. But can you beat it at the track?????

[texasram]

I finally watched the video all the way through last night and it just got worse, not trying to be a fan boy or anything but the guy is committing the same mistake that half the people make while reviewing this car, theyre not reviewing it for what it was meant for, yes a VIPER rear end under acceleration is all over the place like the guy said but the ACR is track tuned and cant be a lap muncher with all that going on, hence the ACR badge.