They could have found a better driver and had a much better time, this guy cant even stay out of the rev limiter or shift correctly so hes definitely not driving the car to its potential.
Finally, an American car with the acceleration of a turbo, maneuverability of an exotic, and the classic power and speed of a muscle car. Way to go Dodge and the SRT 10 ACR team, and way to go America!!!
now I know 'how to drive' ha! nice car I owned a neon ACR they handle awesome and have excellent midrange power shoulda kept it boo hoo hoo....lol. Dodge is awesome!
@booyahbd I agree and disagree with you, those two missed gears were bad, but hitting the rev limiter doesn't mean he's a bad driver, he really a smart one it would take more time to up shift then ending up just downshifting than to hit the rev limiter and slow down at corners if he was on a straight he wouldn't of hit thee limiter because he would of shifted in time he hit the rev limiter by corners because he knew he would just slow down anyway.
@xBringinSexyBack95x this viper is one of the best production cars on track mby the best.... watch times on other tracks (laguna seca or other) hes always on the top..... its simply a racing car not a luxury car
I saw a couple of towel heads in an ACR today and it was driving towards me and i swear to god the front looked like it was going to eat me. This worried me a little as i didn't want to get eaten. But I soon felt better when i saw a 370z rear end a GTR haha. Just like in the wild, predators like the viper sometimes cause their pray to scatter and behave frantically, and occasionally make them rear end the person in front of them.
Nice car, and i know why he doesn't shift, he would have to shift back. I have driven a Viper and you can't rush it into gears quickly. I would love to drive this ACR.
@derk2350 you have a point, but i doubt even a professional driver would want to take his hands off the wheel as little as physically possible while driving on that track
he could do faster but he did some mistakes that caused him some + seconds by the way his transmission seem not to e very well and made him miss shift thats my experience in building race cars !
The interior looks like absolute crap. It looks like a $20k car inside. The car itself is impressive but in case you guys didn't hear, the new 911 GT2RS now beat the Viper and holds an amazing record of 7:18.
This viper is better track car then any lambo or mercedes sls amg ,it fast thats all you need not no damn luxury, fuck that i don't look for a car for some fucking wood pannels or gold trims fuck that shit All I want is speed. And if i want that shit i get a sadan or a suv. Europeans is are horrible to and i alot of ways so stop all that damn nit picking you european are acting like bitches you like ex wives shut the fuck up
@Wildcatbball18 Something with the gearbox makes it really clunky, its not just a matter of flicking it into place it requires real effort.. plus the clutch is heavy...
the Gumpert Apollo is the fastest street legal car with a 7:11 after that is the 7:22 viper acr the Radicals dont count they are not street legal and the porscche gt2 rs lap time is a lie made up by the manufacturer its really 7:24
He hits the rev limiter for a reason! He'd lose more time and speed shifting before a turn then he would to bang the limiter and not have to down shift during the braking zone. It's basic driving technique
aha for all you people talking about engines and turbos and boost thinking you know everything. why dont you pause the video, make a car, race it at nurburgring, and then post a comment about which cars are better
im trying to do this in forza 3! its hard...no matter how fast i go, or how perfect i shift, or how precise my accuracy is for an apex i can only crank out a 7:51 :( anyone have any tips? and was the acr they used here modified in anyway?
Uh, ever driven a manual? Who'd you learn it from? Perfectly smooth shifts, are bad shifts, even when driving normally. More wear and tear on the clutch, look it up. And when driving fast.....if you are doing it proper keeping your rpms up your car in its torque/boost range.....your shifts are not gonna be soft.
@Darkstar9009 Well not TOO rough, you have to know the balance....but to do a "smooth" shift, you have to spend more time on the clutch, which is bad. Basically, anytime the clutch is not on the floor or fully released, that's time spent wearing the clutch, so the idea is to minimize that. Instances like moving very slowly, or backing up sometimes you have to ride it, but, when upshifting, you want to release pretty quickly, which will make the shift a little rough.
@Darkstar9009 He must have been good to set the track record. Or the record would be a lot better as you say. It takes a great car making great power to run that quick. Also a great driver as well. There is always someone who can beat another on any given day. Just not this day. Best, yl
@Steroidpoodle What I meant to say was how he was letting the car get to its rev limiter and leave it there for quite sometime. Thats all I meant by bad shifts :/
@RJCJENGO thats funny because i personally think if you have turbos on your car that means you have a pretty strong freakin engine....i bet if you put the turbos of the porsche onto that engine...the whole fucking engine will fall apart, because its not strong enough to handle the boost. 3.8L vs an 8.4L??? umm whos more efficient???and whos is stronger???
@arkoe310 last time i checked people do put turbos on vipers and they run 7.5 in the 1/4 mile on pump gas and are still street legal. and dont fall apart.
@arkoe310 you're missing the other point of about 600ld-ft of torque, and being this big and hulky an engine, it wi produce this sort of output for a long, long time.
Wow, quite a lot of idiocy going on here. What's all that talk about cars like the Gumpert Apollo being faster than the ACR about? The Apollo comes with a pricetag of a rough 300'000 Euro. That's what, 450'000$? That's 4.5 times as much as the Viper, so what's the point of comparing them? Same's true for the Zonda F, the McLaren F1 and what ever was broght up here. The ACR dominates anything that's close to it's price range, including the Nissan GT-R. And no amount of ignorance can change that.
what makes me laugh, when big super car makers take there new cars to test around the track. it gets closed but when normal tuners go and try geta fast lap its always full
Really, people need to realize that just because a car is made by a specific brand in a specific country, doesn't mean the car will be bad. Design teams typically have several people from several countries putting things together. The new Camaro had people from Japan working on it, people in Australia, and Americans. Brand doesn't make the car, designers do, and they don't get near enough respect.
I've driven a GTR and it's not what I call a boring drive, it might be a boring drive to some reviewers who have driven the likes of Viper and Enzo, but for an ordinary person like me without much experience with supercars it is still pretty exciting
Those claim viper is king do some reseach before posting, Gumpert Apollo thrashed Viper. Many recent European supercars are have not been tested yet, like Murcielago 670 SV, Ascari, Zonda F roadster.
Evo mag conducted test for Enzo, MC12 and Zonda F Clubsport with a motoring jounalist Marc Basseng, not professional racing driver, if you want fair comparison put the Basseng in the Viper let's see what he can do
@laohoo1 The Gumpert, Ha Ha..... you have to be kidding me. If Dodge actually cared about lap times, the could just as easily slap twin turbos on the Viper and get 1000+ hp... Hennnessy has been doing it for years.
If you know anything about cars, I'm talking about the Zonda F roadster which is faster than the coupe. 1000+ bhp isn't gonna make you lap faster otherwise how come Nissan GTR has beaten just almost all the supercars. Yeah Im sure Dodge doesn't care about lap times that's why they got a racing driver, and made him drive so hard and almost got himself killed. Btw it is well known Dodge makes really badly-engineered cars, incl Viper
So what you're saying is that, you should put the car with someone less talented and that will somehow prove that the other cars are better? All that will prove is that the easiest car for him to drive will be the best. A professional driver will take a car to it's full potential. A motoring journalist will not.
I'm saying the lap time for Enzo and so on was done by a motoring jounalist, therefore it isn't reflective of what the car is truly capable of. And as you pointed out the Viper was taken to its full potential by a professional racing driver. It's like saying I beat Bruce Lee in a fight with both his hands tied up, it doesn't mean I'm a better fighter than him
Several time during this lap the car almost kills him. It may be a fast lap but it's a very ugly one. Also the car makes some horrendous noises including what sounds like it bottoming out. Viper may be king of nurburgring but I certainly don't love it. Also there are plenty of videos of this thing falling off a cliff that reminds us what this car is really like.
This is why I don't like a lot of racing games. Cars like the Viper, and even the Z06 kinda ruin the game. They have to up the price of a Viper cause it makes no sense to pay 4 times as much for a car with pretty much the same stats. Kinda makes you wonder why people do it in real life.......
Since when is the price of the car the main point of the racing game? The main point of the racing is racing, not the extrodary price tag price on certain cars so I really don't get what your saying.
ya HKBM45 i was thinkin that same thing damn he was bouncing off on limiter seemed like every shift and he didnt even shift sometimes rrrrrrrrrdrdrdrdrdrdrdrdrdr and then slowed down haha probally could have had a better lap time too....props to him though probally becouse first time driving
You'll notice that every time he bounces the rev limiter he is approaching a corner, that he would need to be in the current gear after the apex. Shifting up would actually slow him down because it would knock the car out of the top of its powerband and he would just be shifting back down to that gear after the apex of the corner. so its a waste of time. this is a beater car owned by dodge and it doesn't matter how much he tears the transmission up.
Thats not true. All official tests are above 7.30. It is indeed a very good and fast car, but with 1.8 tons of weight and only 480ps its not possible to beat cars like carrera gt with 612 hp and 1.3 tons. See the records i posted in my previous comments. A GTR has no chance with its weight to beat times like ~7.15
if you doubt 7,26 of GTR, I doubt the Viper 7.22 time. Enzo Ferrari is lighter and more powerful than Viper ACR but its time was 7.25 How can you explain that? 7.26 is proved by video... GTR is the fastest 4-seat car around the Ring. Do not forget that it is AWD, so it has a serious advantage of opening the throttle while cornering. Even Porsche representatives were invited to witness GTR doing 7.26 lap time!
Enzo Ferrari has electronic regulated dampers, this is why the Maserati MC12 (same chassis as enzo) with regular dampers reaches 7.20.
I don not doubt these times. The problem is are they streetlegal? What tires, Turbo pressure, is the hp stock? etc...
The thing is if you read the tests of a stock gtr by any major german magazine which tested on the ring, it gets times above 7.30. With this weight and hp its indeed very good.
There are no magicians working for nissan. A car with this enormous weight and average hp in this class, has its limits. You cannot evade from the laws of physics
The GTR is a piece of shit. I could care less if it is fast. I would take a Viper or Porsche ANY day over the GTR. Because at the end of the day, the GTR is still just another japanese car.
I actually know the viper cause my cousin drove one and i know the zakspeed team and i visit every 24h race. I live half an our away from "the best track in the world"
Are you that ignorant? If you actually did your research, you would see that Vipers Have won alot of 24 hour races, including the ones at Daytona, Le Mans and here at the Nurburgring. Do your research before you post comments like that. Also, this is for the most part a club racer, not a purpose built racecar.
i don't give a shit if the radical sr8 set the new record on nurburgring - i think it , still a pathetic excuse for a car... the real champion is viper acr...
The timing starts exactly at 0:59 in the video at the original finish line right before the first left corner of Hatzenbach. At 8:22 they stop the lap at the exit of the Hohenrain-corner. Which is about 200 meters before the finish line. I measured it with google earth. In the video you can also see that the car takes about 10 seconds for this distance. The real time is above 7:30.
I live 50 kilometers near the ring and i drive there every 2 weeks. I know this track perfectly and if you watch carefully, they stop the time at different points. This is no legitimate time.
Lol, did you notice that they stop the time at different points? Watch that the time starts at the original finish line and is stopped about 50Meters earlier directly after the last corner. I know Zakspeed and the times very well, but a 7.22 with stock tires is unrealistic and impossible with so many shifting faults.
Lol ya they wouldn't double check or make sure that it was legit.. hell they just walked up and told the track officials that their time was 7.22 and they believed them and gave them the world record... Hell i actually have a faster time in my Tiburon, i have an intake and clutch and i pulled it off in 6.34 on pump gas AND street tires.. wheres my world record???!!!!! lolol seriously dood? cmon
This track is in my neighborhood, so please don´t tell me about the laptimes driven there, ok. I even visited the founder of the Zakspeed team who lives 5min away from the ring. The timing in the video is not comparable to other official laptimes cause its simply not a full lap they drive. Watch the video. With non-semis it is impossible to drive this time in a viper. Period
Dude the reason he wasn't upshifting was because he was headed into a turn, why upshift when you would have to downshift a second later, thats just going to slow down his time. He's the professional driver and you're NOT.
but one cannot beat Aston Martin Vantages RS.. The England is really fastest cars, which are not heavy cars. Lotus's very fast at in the Nurburgring.. model is Exige.
wow. cool video. i wouldn't mind an ACR sitting in my garage... could be tough choosing ACR vs ZR1 to me tho. both are animals... luckily i won't have to choose anytime soon haha
so? maybe we americans dont need our cars to pamper us like we are a bunch of runway models getting ready to for photoshoot, raw power is all we need, remember, an American car is king over a German track......kinda degrading to the european jobs aint it?
You heard of a 911GT3RS? the F430Scuderia? The 360CS? F40? The Superleggeria? These EUROPEAN cars are stripped, increased horsepower and built for heavy TRACK USE.
Enough with the stupid, misinformed and unfounded stereotype about Amercan cars already. This is a track day car, what did you expect? This isn't about comfort, its about speed and if you actually did research instead of make that ignorant statement, you'd see this isn't all-grunt. You don't need "luxury" for a track car as it is lighter and better handling without it, something you apparently missed with EUROPEAN cars like the Ferrari F430 Scuderia & the Porsche GT3 RS.
They could have found a better driver and had a much better time, this guy cant even stay out of the rev limiter or shift correctly so hes definitely not driving the car to its potential.
bhshfb 1 week ago
Finally, an American car with the acceleration of a turbo, maneuverability of an exotic, and the classic power and speed of a muscle car. Way to go Dodge and the SRT 10 ACR team, and way to go America!!!
slapjack441 4 weeks ago
One of the finest cars EVER
SteeleJester 1 month ago
May GOD that is intense! I dont think most ppk on youtube,understand the set of balls it takes to do something like this! Awesome ;)
opioid82 1 month ago
Why does the shifter jiggle?
superhoga 2 months ago
@superhoga Its rev limiting.
air405 1 month ago
ah just type topspeed.rs
u have section i think it's called supercars
find picture of viper it's Serbian site but they have information on time 7:12 that viper did i think in Octobar this year
Wizard32np 2 months ago
u have video of viper doing 7:12 just search little more
i dont know how i find it but am sure i watch it
Wizard32np 2 months ago
2:50, 3:00 mins etc is the car hitting the rev limiter?
roshg1 2 months ago
Traction control? This is a real race car like in GT they don't have traction control
EndofDays213 3 months ago
It actually completed it in 7.12 in 2011 think in september or august
EndofDays213 3 months ago
the thing is that viper doesnt have traction crontrol
ITZCAPNSMOKE 4 months ago
this guy cant shift
nickgt350R 5 months ago 2
@nickgt350R this guy is a world class driver. pretty sure he knows more than you. shifting just b4 a corner would hurt overall time.
blaketheparonite91 4 months ago
id buy a radical to 1/2 of the price and beat that acr... although the viper is a nice car
johnNYgoesLA 5 months ago
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he shifts into the wrong gear around 2:50 hahahahahaha
KrazyKuul111 5 months ago
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KrazyKuul111 5 months ago
now I know 'how to drive' ha! nice car I owned a neon ACR they handle awesome and have excellent midrange power shoulda kept it boo hoo hoo....lol. Dodge is awesome!
jakayoh 6 months ago
Missed two gears, and hit the rev limiter more than 20 times. This car could've gone faster with a better driver.
booyahbd 7 months ago
@booyahbd why dont you drive it than
MRHOLYCRAP12 7 months ago
@MRHOLYCRAP12 Er... did I claim I was the better driver?
booyahbd 7 months ago
@booyahbd no but your kinda ungreatful of the good time he did put down
MRHOLYCRAP12 7 months ago
@MRHOLYCRAP12 "Missed two gears, and hit the rev limiter more than 20 times."
I don't think it's a good time. This is such an awesome car and I don't feel this driver proved it.
booyahbd 7 months ago
@booyahbd I agree and disagree with you, those two missed gears were bad, but hitting the rev limiter doesn't mean he's a bad driver, he really a smart one it would take more time to up shift then ending up just downshifting than to hit the rev limiter and slow down at corners if he was on a straight he wouldn't of hit thee limiter because he would of shifted in time he hit the rev limiter by corners because he knew he would just slow down anyway.
TheThrasher1981 6 months ago
@booyahbd Seeing that the viper put down a new record of 7:12 i agree with you
Inklebonker1 5 months ago
@Inklebonker1 where can isee the video man?
NWA90s 5 months ago
@NWA90s I meant figuratively sorry. But you can see the track info on google.
Inklebonker1 5 months ago
@Inklebonker1 i know, but you know if they are ganna release a vid?
NWA90s 5 months ago
@NWA90s Have no idea but i would think so since they released these.
Inklebonker1 5 months ago
i don't care as long as it's american
xBringinSexyBack95x 8 months ago 4
@xBringinSexyBack95x this viper is one of the best production cars on track mby the best.... watch times on other tracks (laguna seca or other) hes always on the top..... its simply a racing car not a luxury car
puzjez 2 months ago
I do like viper but the ZR1 just laid down 7:19.63 at the ring...much respect.
speedfiend74 8 months ago
fastest drunk guy in an acr?
punkenduro 9 months ago
the pistons and rods in this thing must be make of gold
travASS13 9 months ago
I saw a couple of towel heads in an ACR today and it was driving towards me and i swear to god the front looked like it was going to eat me. This worried me a little as i didn't want to get eaten. But I soon felt better when i saw a 370z rear end a GTR haha. Just like in the wild, predators like the viper sometimes cause their pray to scatter and behave frantically, and occasionally make them rear end the person in front of them.
ellisfreedman 10 months ago 10
Nice car, and i know why he doesn't shift, he would have to shift back. I have driven a Viper and you can't rush it into gears quickly. I would love to drive this ACR.
45vtec 10 months ago
ferrari r overprice xD
viper all day er day!!!
blazzing4321 10 months ago
@blazzing4321 stf up already.
Alexgotnicebody 10 months ago
if he didnt ride the rev limiter so much in the corners n actually shifted i think he could have gotten arround that ring just a little faster
derk2350 11 months ago
@derk2350 you have a point, but i doubt even a professional driver would want to take his hands off the wheel as little as physically possible while driving on that track
jab4309 11 months ago
@jab4309 agreed. its very uneven and the engine is designed to take the beating anyway. its a RACEcar
xcantt0uchth1sx 9 months ago
@derk2350 also, if he did shift whenever the revs got high, he'd have to instantaneously shift back down so there's really no point in it
jab4309 11 months ago
@derk2350 the engine would explode.
schosal123 10 months ago
Watching the Zonda R lap has completely ruined watching all other cars go around Nurburgring for me.
khunderwood50 11 months ago
@reavrr funny japs need forced induction to keep up with an American naturally aspirated engine
68chargerlover 11 months ago
thumbs up for the Viper!
95blckfirebird1 11 months ago
6 min 58.16 sec. ferrari 599xx.
Viper acr or whatever can lick my ballsack...
Armantas19 1 year ago
@Armantas19 haterrrrrrrrrrr
95blckfirebird1 11 months ago
@Armantas19 you do know it isn't a production road car, this Viper is however
MrPew17 11 months ago
@Armantas19
Ferrari 599xx is a prototype-kind car, there are only few and cost at least 1 million euros,
the acr u can get a model from 2009 for a mere 115.000 euros,..
Now find me a car at this price that goes like hell like this viper you IDIOT
555bzona 11 months ago
he could do faster but he did some mistakes that caused him some + seconds by the way his transmission seem not to e very well and made him miss shift thats my experience in building race cars !
bessniak 1 year ago
why is he not shifting ? GRRRRRrrrr GEGEGEGEG GrrerrrrRRRrrr
sphinxofthenewage 1 year ago
I now have alot of respect for that driver, that car is fucking nuts, imagen if you were in the passenger seat
hehe799 1 year ago
Dodge's CEO said probably said "i want the world to ell stories of the viper days and how it went out with a BANG"!
shamownz50gs 1 year ago
The interior looks like absolute crap. It looks like a $20k car inside. The car itself is impressive but in case you guys didn't hear, the new 911 GT2RS now beat the Viper and holds an amazing record of 7:18.
LachozaTube 1 year ago
the rpm band is pretty low for a V10 Engine , is very annoying to hear the transmission claiming for an upshift everysecond ...
oOoironhideoOo 1 year ago
It has air conditioning and heating. Marvelous
XfsxnfsX 1 year ago
viper is the worlds top car
dante316a 1 year ago
what is this like the worlds biggest track?
doubleutubefan5 1 year ago
This viper is better track car then any lambo or mercedes sls amg ,it fast thats all you need not no damn luxury, fuck that i don't look for a car for some fucking wood pannels or gold trims fuck that shit All I want is speed. And if i want that shit i get a sadan or a suv. Europeans is are horrible to and i alot of ways so stop all that damn nit picking you european are acting like bitches you like ex wives shut the fuck up
Tbonner123 1 year ago 2
@Tbonner123 right definitely better than those leather ass massaging cages built out of lead. like those merc c-l-k -a-m-g-c-r-a-p!
shamownz50gs 1 year ago
pretty wobbly around corners, they messed up the suspension a little on this model
yomama629 1 year ago
@ 7:47 dude change the damn gears!!!
Wildcatbball18 1 year ago
@Wildcatbball18 I have a viper and a shift in that type of gear box takes a while better to hang on to the gear then shift up and down again.....
sidhucer90 1 year ago
@sidhucer90 rly? why?
Wildcatbball18 1 year ago
@Wildcatbball18 Something with the gearbox makes it really clunky, its not just a matter of flicking it into place it requires real effort.. plus the clutch is heavy...
sidhucer90 1 year ago
@sidhucer90 :/ that doesnt sound very cool or proper... well dodge transmissions do suck though....no offense
Wildcatbball18 1 year ago
the Gumpert Apollo is the fastest street legal car with a 7:11 after that is the 7:22 viper acr the Radicals dont count they are not street legal and the porscche gt2 rs lap time is a lie made up by the manufacturer its really 7:24
Wildcatbball18 1 year ago
He hits the rev limiter for a reason! He'd lose more time and speed shifting before a turn then he would to bang the limiter and not have to down shift during the braking zone. It's basic driving technique
dankoneon 1 year ago
aha for all you people talking about engines and turbos and boost thinking you know everything. why dont you pause the video, make a car, race it at nurburgring, and then post a comment about which cars are better
zzSMOKEx 1 year ago 2
im trying to do this in forza 3! its hard...no matter how fast i go, or how perfect i shift, or how precise my accuracy is for an apex i can only crank out a 7:51 :( anyone have any tips? and was the acr they used here modified in anyway?
sonic911 1 year ago
it's a good track car alright, but it sounds like a tractor and the road version isn't much better.
it is an engineering marvel from Dodge but i will take the offering from Corvette when I am ready. yeah the z06.
golferchin76 1 year ago
This guy shifts like an asshole. I could tell it was his first time. Think about what the time could of been if they had a good driver.
Darkstar9009 1 year ago
@Darkstar9009
Uh, ever driven a manual? Who'd you learn it from? Perfectly smooth shifts, are bad shifts, even when driving normally. More wear and tear on the clutch, look it up. And when driving fast.....if you are doing it proper keeping your rpms up your car in its torque/boost range.....your shifts are not gonna be soft.
FinalBossWTMN 1 year ago
@FinalBossWTMN No I don't drive manual but I guess you have to retrain your brain to think that Rougher shifts are better shifts?
Darkstar9009 1 year ago
@Darkstar9009 Well not TOO rough, you have to know the balance....but to do a "smooth" shift, you have to spend more time on the clutch, which is bad. Basically, anytime the clutch is not on the floor or fully released, that's time spent wearing the clutch, so the idea is to minimize that. Instances like moving very slowly, or backing up sometimes you have to ride it, but, when upshifting, you want to release pretty quickly, which will make the shift a little rough.
FinalBossWTMN 1 year ago
@Darkstar9009 He must have been good to set the track record. Or the record would be a lot better as you say. It takes a great car making great power to run that quick. Also a great driver as well. There is always someone who can beat another on any given day. Just not this day. Best, yl
ylism 1 year ago
@Darkstar9009
Sorry, but you have no idea what youre talking about.
Steroidpoodle 1 year ago
@Steroidpoodle What I meant to say was how he was letting the car get to its rev limiter and leave it there for quite sometime. Thats all I meant by bad shifts :/
Darkstar9009 1 year ago
lol this viper done drag race here...
Have a vids too...
ClassicDragRace 1 year ago
awesome!
skyline777 1 year ago
Porsche GT2 RS coming to the rescue!
arkoe310 1 year ago
@arkoe310 maybe if the viper was twin turbo it be shitting on the porsche but the viper is naturally aspirated, straight up motor, no pussy mods
RJCJENGO 1 year ago
@RJCJENGO thats funny because i personally think if you have turbos on your car that means you have a pretty strong freakin engine....i bet if you put the turbos of the porsche onto that engine...the whole fucking engine will fall apart, because its not strong enough to handle the boost. 3.8L vs an 8.4L??? umm whos more efficient???and whos is stronger???
arkoe310 1 year ago
@arkoe310 last time i checked people do put turbos on vipers and they run 7.5 in the 1/4 mile on pump gas and are still street legal. and dont fall apart.
/watch?v=u1N7hDUVCz4
suck a fuckin dick
RJCJENGO 1 year ago
@RJCJENGO 8.4 litre engine with only 600 hp.....fuck you and dodge at the same time.
arkoe310 1 year ago
@arkoe310 you're missing the other point of about 600ld-ft of torque, and being this big and hulky an engine, it wi produce this sort of output for a long, long time.
angusandleigh 1 year ago
it sounds like a rattling snake sometimes! ^^
MrObusk 1 year ago
VIPER SMOKES MC12 AND ENZO AND ZONDA F!!!!
all for a bargain price :3
mdeonx16 1 year ago 3
Love it!!!
4 gear all a round the ring.
ACR vs. who????????????
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
kraeo 1 year ago
Tom does have "a little" previous experience in vipers though. Just this one is à little slower than THE ones hè is used to driving.
eyeisyou 1 year ago
Wow, quite a lot of idiocy going on here. What's all that talk about cars like the Gumpert Apollo being faster than the ACR about? The Apollo comes with a pricetag of a rough 300'000 Euro. That's what, 450'000$? That's 4.5 times as much as the Viper, so what's the point of comparing them? Same's true for the Zonda F, the McLaren F1 and what ever was broght up here. The ACR dominates anything that's close to it's price range, including the Nissan GT-R. And no amount of ignorance can change that.
FlyingFoxHounD 1 year ago 2
what makes me laugh, when big super car makers take there new cars to test around the track. it gets closed but when normal tuners go and try geta fast lap its always full
trueancient 1 year ago
I really hate everyone that watches top gear and thinks they know everything there is about cars.
clutchbelt 2 years ago
awesome piece of kit.
DesignerBricABrac 2 years ago
normally/naturally aspirated is the correct term
Bogard985 2 years ago
i have an 08 ACR and it is so rugged and insanely powerful, and I love it. Just check my channel and you can see it
MLGCODSTER24 2 years ago 4
@MLGCODSTER24 That thing is an absolute monster! I love it!
Zlyzer 2 years ago
mlgcodster if that really is your car, that shit is beautiful!! props.
JPdrummer27 2 years ago
yes it is, and thanks
MLGCODSTER24 2 years ago
Really, people need to realize that just because a car is made by a specific brand in a specific country, doesn't mean the car will be bad. Design teams typically have several people from several countries putting things together. The new Camaro had people from Japan working on it, people in Australia, and Americans. Brand doesn't make the car, designers do, and they don't get near enough respect.
TheMagicalBikeCrew 2 years ago 3
Zdá se mi to, nebo je každou chvíli s tím Viperem v omezovači?
Kozlik007 2 years ago
damn this car is nasty. Seems a bit unknown though.. ?
Bagjo123 2 years ago
and besides. how many CCs is the viper compared to the GTR? get a 5000cc V6 in a GTR and you'll see.
qiankundanuoyi1 2 years ago
The GTR is stupid. It's the fastest car to be considered a boring drive by some reviewers. The car does all the driving for you. That's lame.
xfistsclenchedx 2 years ago
I've driven a GTR and it's not what I call a boring drive, it might be a boring drive to some reviewers who have driven the likes of Viper and Enzo, but for an ordinary person like me without much experience with supercars it is still pretty exciting
laohoo1 2 years ago 2
Mclaren f1 LM GTR would piss all over that time.
eshulon 2 years ago
Those claim viper is king do some reseach before posting, Gumpert Apollo thrashed Viper. Many recent European supercars are have not been tested yet, like Murcielago 670 SV, Ascari, Zonda F roadster.
Evo mag conducted test for Enzo, MC12 and Zonda F Clubsport with a motoring jounalist Marc Basseng, not professional racing driver, if you want fair comparison put the Basseng in the Viper let's see what he can do
laohoo1 2 years ago
oh and the Veyron, + the Carrera GT.
qiankundanuoyi1 2 years ago
@laohoo1 The Gumpert, Ha Ha..... you have to be kidding me. If Dodge actually cared about lap times, the could just as easily slap twin turbos on the Viper and get 1000+ hp... Hennnessy has been doing it for years.
(and the Zonda F got a time of 7:24.7.)
shadowexr2 2 years ago
If you know anything about cars, I'm talking about the Zonda F roadster which is faster than the coupe. 1000+ bhp isn't gonna make you lap faster otherwise how come Nissan GTR has beaten just almost all the supercars. Yeah Im sure Dodge doesn't care about lap times that's why they got a racing driver, and made him drive so hard and almost got himself killed. Btw it is well known Dodge makes really badly-engineered cars, incl Viper
laohoo1 2 years ago
Dumbfuck, do you really think adding 80% of the GTR's horsepower would make the Viper not have a faster lap time?
shadowexr2 2 years ago
So what you're saying is that, you should put the car with someone less talented and that will somehow prove that the other cars are better? All that will prove is that the easiest car for him to drive will be the best. A professional driver will take a car to it's full potential. A motoring journalist will not.
xfistsclenchedx 2 years ago
I'm saying the lap time for Enzo and so on was done by a motoring jounalist, therefore it isn't reflective of what the car is truly capable of. And as you pointed out the Viper was taken to its full potential by a professional racing driver. It's like saying I beat Bruce Lee in a fight with both his hands tied up, it doesn't mean I'm a better fighter than him
laohoo1 2 years ago
Several time during this lap the car almost kills him. It may be a fast lap but it's a very ugly one. Also the car makes some horrendous noises including what sounds like it bottoming out. Viper may be king of nurburgring but I certainly don't love it. Also there are plenty of videos of this thing falling off a cliff that reminds us what this car is really like.
joesatube 2 years ago
Because it takes SKILL to drive a viper.
xxMafia101 2 years ago 2
This is why I don't like a lot of racing games. Cars like the Viper, and even the Z06 kinda ruin the game. They have to up the price of a Viper cause it makes no sense to pay 4 times as much for a car with pretty much the same stats. Kinda makes you wonder why people do it in real life.......
frickenninja 2 years ago 3
Fastest lap ever. He missed 2 gears, and never got out of 4th. Until some other car beats it. The Viper is king........
andrewldoe 2 years ago 4
Since when is the price of the car the main point of the racing game? The main point of the racing is racing, not the extrodary price tag price on certain cars so I really don't get what your saying.
Spyker88 2 years ago
ya HKBM45 i was thinkin that same thing damn he was bouncing off on limiter seemed like every shift and he didnt even shift sometimes rrrrrrrrrdrdrdrdrdrdrdrdrdr and then slowed down haha probally could have had a better lap time too....props to him though probally becouse first time driving
BEASTLYSTANG1999 2 years ago
You'll notice that every time he bounces the rev limiter he is approaching a corner, that he would need to be in the current gear after the apex. Shifting up would actually slow him down because it would knock the car out of the top of its powerband and he would just be shifting back down to that gear after the apex of the corner. so its a waste of time. this is a beater car owned by dodge and it doesn't matter how much he tears the transmission up.
Kiraina 2 years ago 3
Remember he is going for the fastest possible lap time he can achieve period..
not the fastest time he can achieve with the least wear and tear on the machine.
Kiraina 2 years ago 2
i hope ur not euro trash because we still have nukes and weapons that can destroy u in seconds and from a thousands of miles away hahaha
SonicBoomSam101 2 years ago
Did he really need to bang it off the rev limiter that much? That seemed a bit excessive.
HKBM45 2 years ago
GTR is the fastest 4-seat car (and with a big boot) around the Ring!!!
GeorgeV6v24 2 years ago
Thats not true. All official tests are above 7.30. It is indeed a very good and fast car, but with 1.8 tons of weight and only 480ps its not possible to beat cars like carrera gt with 612 hp and 1.3 tons. See the records i posted in my previous comments. A GTR has no chance with its weight to beat times like ~7.15
HeavyweightThinker 2 years ago
if you doubt 7,26 of GTR, I doubt the Viper 7.22 time. Enzo Ferrari is lighter and more powerful than Viper ACR but its time was 7.25 How can you explain that? 7.26 is proved by video... GTR is the fastest 4-seat car around the Ring. Do not forget that it is AWD, so it has a serious advantage of opening the throttle while cornering. Even Porsche representatives were invited to witness GTR doing 7.26 lap time!
GeorgeV6v24 2 years ago
Enzo Ferrari has electronic regulated dampers, this is why the Maserati MC12 (same chassis as enzo) with regular dampers reaches 7.20.
I don not doubt these times. The problem is are they streetlegal? What tires, Turbo pressure, is the hp stock? etc...
The thing is if you read the tests of a stock gtr by any major german magazine which tested on the ring, it gets times above 7.30. With this weight and hp its indeed very good.
HeavyweightThinker 2 years ago
There are no magicians working for nissan. A car with this enormous weight and average hp in this class, has its limits. You cannot evade from the laws of physics
HeavyweightThinker 2 years ago
Viper ACR uses factory semi-slick tires. GTR does not use semi-slick but totally road tires...
GeorgeV6v24 2 years ago
The GTR is a piece of shit. I could care less if it is fast. I would take a Viper or Porsche ANY day over the GTR. Because at the end of the day, the GTR is still just another japanese car.
xxMafia101 2 years ago
In Le mans the GTR overtook them like they are pieces of shit.
qiankundanuoyi1 2 years ago
Quit sucking the GTRs balls. Your just a little mad that the ACR is faster around the ring than your little turbo.
xxMafia101 2 years ago 3
You're basing how good a car is based purely on what country it is made in?
Congrats, buddy. You've just proven how intelligent you are.
jiminey6969 2 years ago 3
I based it on how Nissan makes cars you fucking retard. Not the country.
xxMafia101 2 years ago
Well, obviously you messed up your facts somewhere. Nissan make well built, reliable cars.
It is wrong to be wrong. Stop being wrong.
jiminey6969 2 years ago
Oh ok you said 4 seat car. That maybe true
HeavyweightThinker 2 years ago
Last thursday a new laprecord was driven by F.Gruber in a Gumpert Apollo with streelegal tires.
Time is 7.11,57
Last records on Nordschleife (streetlegal):
2004 Porsche Carrera GT Horst von Saurma 7.32,44 Minuten
2004 Donkervoort D8 RS Michael Düchting 7.18,10 Minuten
2005 Edo Competition-Porsche GT2R Patrick Simon 7.15,63 Minuten
2006 Donkervoort D8 RS Michael Düchting 7.14,89 Minuten
Visit sportauto-online(.)de
HeavyweightThinker 2 years ago
yea fuck the corvette zr1
RACErocker 2 years ago
I actually know the viper cause my cousin drove one and i know the zakspeed team and i visit every 24h race. I live half an our away from "the best track in the world"
HeavyweightThinker 2 years ago
The real champion is Porsche 917 with Stefan Bellof and a 6:11 =)
Another point is the Viper engine is too inefficient for endurance races. This is why a viper has only bad chances of winning a 24h race
HeavyweightThinker 2 years ago
You must have no idea about the vipers history if you truly think that.
TEFLONTHADON 2 years ago
Actually, the Viper has won three 24 hours Nurburgring, three class wins at Le Mans, one 24 hours Daytona, and the Mil Milhas.
So what are you talking about?
Wizmar 2 years ago
Are you that ignorant? If you actually did your research, you would see that Vipers Have won alot of 24 hour races, including the ones at Daytona, Le Mans and here at the Nurburgring. Do your research before you post comments like that. Also, this is for the most part a club racer, not a purpose built racecar.
Spyker88 2 years ago 32
@Spyker88 quick question wat exaclty is a 24 hour race is it actually a 24 hour long race?
Sherwin930 1 year ago
@Sherwin930 Yes, it is actually a 24 Hour long race.
Spyker88 1 year ago
i don't give a shit if the radical sr8 set the new record on nurburgring - i think it , still a pathetic excuse for a car... the real champion is viper acr...
OOLWprufKW 2 years ago
Did you drive on this track just for one round? Have you even been there?
Watch the video for yourself, every idiot sees the difference between the actual finish line and the exit of hohenrain onto the finish-straight.
HeavyweightThinker 2 years ago
The timing starts exactly at 0:59 in the video at the original finish line right before the first left corner of Hatzenbach. At 8:22 they stop the lap at the exit of the Hohenrain-corner. Which is about 200 meters before the finish line. I measured it with google earth. In the video you can also see that the car takes about 10 seconds for this distance. The real time is above 7:30.
HeavyweightThinker 2 years ago
i think you're right the time in the video is continiuously skipping 1 second to another
mukangtae3 2 years ago
I live 50 kilometers near the ring and i drive there every 2 weeks. I know this track perfectly and if you watch carefully, they stop the time at different points. This is no legitimate time.
HeavyweightThinker 2 years ago
That's where all the lap time's start and stop. Look at the GTR and ZR1 ring vids and its the same as well.
pbrite 2 years ago
I would never have expected to see American muscle cars in the Top 5 list for Nurburgring lap times...
lovemachine6969 2 years ago
Thats because they're not muscle cars. They're sport cars. 2 different categories that foreigners never seem to get right.
prototype2030 2 years ago
Lol, did you notice that they stop the time at different points? Watch that the time starts at the original finish line and is stopped about 50Meters earlier directly after the last corner. I know Zakspeed and the times very well, but a 7.22 with stock tires is unrealistic and impossible with so many shifting faults.
HeavyweightThinker 2 years ago
Lol ya they wouldn't double check or make sure that it was legit.. hell they just walked up and told the track officials that their time was 7.22 and they believed them and gave them the world record... Hell i actually have a faster time in my Tiburon, i have an intake and clutch and i pulled it off in 6.34 on pump gas AND street tires.. wheres my world record???!!!!! lolol seriously dood? cmon
L4rceny 2 years ago
This track is in my neighborhood, so please don´t tell me about the laptimes driven there, ok. I even visited the founder of the Zakspeed team who lives 5min away from the ring. The timing in the video is not comparable to other official laptimes cause its simply not a full lap they drive. Watch the video. With non-semis it is impossible to drive this time in a viper. Period
HeavyweightThinker 2 years ago
Please do some research.
TEFLONTHADON 2 years ago
YOU HAVE A VERY GOOD POINT!
IJDMDRIFTI 2 years ago
Dude the reason he wasn't upshifting was because he was headed into a turn, why upshift when you would have to downshift a second later, thats just going to slow down his time. He's the professional driver and you're NOT.
prototype2030 2 years ago
i thought vipers have a short-throw transmission
chevystud88 2 years ago
but one cannot beat Aston Martin Vantages RS.. The England is really fastest cars, which are not heavy cars. Lotus's very fast at in the Nurburgring.. model is Exige.
d1gps15 2 years ago
driver Tom Coronel - it was his first time on this car ... lap number 5 and record :) ...team SRT was rented The Ring for 4 hours ...
DAMIENS33 2 years ago
why change gear when i can bounce of the limiter. fantastic.monster fast car.
boyimell 2 years ago
wow. cool video. i wouldn't mind an ACR sitting in my garage... could be tough choosing ACR vs ZR1 to me tho. both are animals... luckily i won't have to choose anytime soon haha
evanescent03 2 years ago
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Im2Cool4UFoeva 2 years ago
so? maybe we americans dont need our cars to pamper us like we are a bunch of runway models getting ready to for photoshoot, raw power is all we need, remember, an American car is king over a German track......kinda degrading to the european jobs aint it?
Moonshiner41 2 years ago
You heard of a 911GT3RS? the F430Scuderia? The 360CS? F40? The Superleggeria? These EUROPEAN cars are stripped, increased horsepower and built for heavy TRACK USE.
z06camaro 2 years ago 3
Enough with the stupid, misinformed and unfounded stereotype about Amercan cars already. This is a track day car, what did you expect? This isn't about comfort, its about speed and if you actually did research instead of make that ignorant statement, you'd see this isn't all-grunt. You don't need "luxury" for a track car as it is lighter and better handling without it, something you apparently missed with EUROPEAN cars like the Ferrari F430 Scuderia & the Porsche GT3 RS.
Spyker88 2 years ago 48
fuk this, im done with these damn cars, im not even gonna bother with this shit anymore, this is stupid, but one thing, GUMPERT APOLLO BITCH
Im2Cool4UFoeva 2 years ago