American sports car maker Dodge has just announced the next chapter in the history of Dodge and SRT’s ultimate American hand-built, street-legal race car with the return of the new 2016 Dodge Viper American Club Racer. The new Viper ACR honors its long-standing legacy as the ultimate street-legal race car through significant aerodynamic and suspension upgrades, new Carbon Ceramic brakes with six-piston calipers and high-performance tires specifically designed for ACR The car also gets a new ACR Extreme Aero Package that can deliver nearly 1 ton of peak downforce at top speed with the help of a massive adjustable dual-element carbon fiber rear wing, rear carbon fiber diffuser, unique SRT hood with removable louvers, detachable extension for the front splitter and additional dive planes. It also gets ACR-exclusive Carbon Ceramic Matrix 15-inch two-piece rotors and six-piston front calipers from Brembo.
There is also a race-tuned suspension setup that features 10-setting, double-adjustable, coil-over Bilstein racing shocks.The car has been developed for public roads and engineered to wring every last hundredth of a second out of road course lap times. “The Viper has always been more of a street-legal race car than a track-capable streetcar, and the new 2016 Dodge Viper ACR is the fastest street-legal Viper track car ever,” said Tim Kuniskis, President and Chief Executive Officer – Dodge Brand and SRT Brand, FCA – North America. “Our goal is to arm our enthusiasts with the ultimate Viper track car to dominate road courses around the world.” At the heart of the 2016 Viper ACR is the handcrafted, all-aluminum 8.4-liter V-10 overhead-valve engine, rated at 645 horsepower and 815Nm of torque – the most torque of any naturally aspirated sports-car engine in the world. Power reaches the pavement through the standard Tremec TR6060 six-speed manual transmission. Production of the 2016 Dodge Viper ACR will kick off in the third quarter of 2015 at a yet undisclosed price tag.
