The Dodge Viper is Being Axed Because it Can’t Fit Curtain Airbags

The Dodge Viper is Being Axed Because it Can’t Fit Curtain Airbags, The Dodge Viper isn't continued for this world, and now we apperceive why. At the 2016 Detroit auto show, a getting carefully accustomed with FCA's affairs told us the sports car is getting discontinued because it can't accede with a federal assurance accepted advised to anticipate addressee ejection.

That standard, FMVSS #226, requires ancillary blind airbags. The Viper as it currently exists can't be adapted with blind airbags after decidedly abbreviation its already bound headroom. Thus, the archetypal will die in 2017, if all cars will be accepted to accede with FMVSS #226. But that may not be the end of the story. FCA bang-up Sergio Marchionne afresh said the Viper may reside afresh on a altered architecture. Though we don't apperceive absolutely which architectonics he was alluding to, platforms from Maserati, Alfa Romeo, and Ferrari could be on the table. If asked which platforms and powertrains are getting advised for a approaching Viper, the getting we batten to alone offered a big smile.

Given that the 2016 Dodge Viper ACR wowed us with its Z06-beating clue performance, the archetypal will go out on a top note. Will FCA chase up with an even added almighty encore? We achievement so. Announcements on the company's approaching artefact action are accepted to be fabricated during an analyst alarm at the end of the month. Stay tuned.

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