Number of cars built by configuration

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I have been told that FCA needed to make 1,000 Vipers a year to break even. That seems like a low number but the person that told me this should know. He said they would have been very happy making 2,000 a year as they would have then turned a bit of a profit. Making less than 1,000 per year meant that FCA was losing money and the only reason to keep making the car was because of the publicity that a halo car generates.

Re-engineering the Gen 5 to meet federal side air curtain requirements was what I understood killed the car. Convertibles, I am told, were exempt from this so if FCA had made a Vert they could have kept on making them. Not sure how much of all of this is true but this is what I've heard.

Good info if it’s true! Don’t make another one! Let the GEN V die with us.