The Dodge Vipers Being Crushed Were Destined for Doom from Day 1

 

The internet has been abuzz yesterday and today with the news that the Chrysler Group had ordered 93 of the first Dodge Vipers built in the early 1990s to be crushed after they had originally been given to technical schools around the country as learning tools. Many large media sources have gone out of their way to villainize the Chrysler Group and parent company Fiat SpA for not trying to preserve these historic performance cars but the vast majority of those reports are chock full of bad information. Also, there are some important details about these cars that sentenced all of them to death from day 1.

First, the reports indicate that the Chrysler Group has ordered these 93 pre-production Dodge Viper roadsters and coupes to be destroyed by the schools who possess them because there were two accidents in which someone was hurt while driving these cars and those accidents led to multimillion dollar lawsuits. These lawsuit rumors claim that students at two of the schools took their school’s Dodge Viper out for a joyride and while on said joyride – they crashed the car. These reports also claim that since the Chrysler Group only lent the cars to the schools and they technically still own them, the automaker was on the hook for these million dollar lawsuits.

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