Rumor Mill: Chrysler Dodge Viper to Sport a V10?

Fiat, the new owners of most of Chrysler’s business, confirms that the iconic Dodge Viper will live on and will have new cars come 2010. Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne is reported to have big plans for the Viper brand and hopes to revive the car and make it a real competitor. Rumors from Fiat’s headquarters indicate that the company is planning to toy around the Viper’s tech. Plans include slapping on a larger V10 version of Fiat’s next-generation V8 engine. The engine might

be the same one to be shared in future Maseratis and Ferraris. This 90-degree engine would be modular top to bottom as well as by cylinder, with a flat-plane crank for the Ferrari V-8, a conventional cross-plane crank for the Maserati V-8, and pushrod-actuated valves for the balance-shafted Viper V-10. Now that ought to put some Italian chest hair on the Viper. Source: CAR and Driver

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Rumor Mill: Chrysler Dodge Viper to Sport a V10?