Chrysler Orders that 93 Vipers be Crushed

[RadQuinn]

See the links below for more information, but yes. Chrysler is ordering that 93 Vipers it loaned out for educational purposes be crushed so that it no longer has any liability to people who might drive them. This includes a viper in the classic blue and white paint, with VIN #4. A car that is worth £150,000 and had potential buyers such as Jay Leno and other private collectors. There are a few petitions up to try and safe them from the wrath of Chrysler, but not sure how much it will do.

Sad day.




http://qsennanews.blogspot.com/
http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1090723_crush-a...
[Petition]http://www.thepetitionsite.com/393/174/916/operati...

[V8forweekends]

Gotta love the lawyers

[Oldandslow]

I'll sign a waiver. Gimme!

[Sealine South]

Yank morons.

[iSore]

Sealine South said:

Yank morons.

Yup.

Go on to Youtube and type in 'Cash For Clunkers' to see what was willfully destroyed for no reason whatsoever.

[conkerman]

Standard practice for vehicles that have been use for this sort of stuff.


They are only cars..

[TheLordJohn]

conkerman said:

Standard practice for vehicles that have been use for this sort of stuff.


They are only cars..

And they're not even very nice ones, either!

[ChemicalChaos]

TheLordJohn said:

conkerman said:

Standard practice for vehicles that have been use for this sort of stuff.


They are only cars..

And they're not even very nice ones, either!

In your (stupid) opinion......



Hopefully, someone will manage to hide at least a few of them away - there are quite a lot of well known Chrysler prototypes from the 50s and 60s that managed to escape the crusher and now tour the show circuits

[TheLordJohn]

ChemicalChaos said:

In your (stupid) opinion......



Hopefully, someone will manage to hide at least a few of them away - there are quite a lot of well known Chrysler prototypes from the 50s and 60s that managed to escape the crusher and now tour the show circuits

It's actually a rather intelligent opinion.
You have just (stupidly) failed to grasp we all have different taste.

5/10 for the reply though - well done!

[youngsyr]

I've recently set up a car crushing business - send them all to me and I'll confirm that they all have indeed been crushed.

[P-Jay]

It does seem wasteful, but completely understandable.

After all, if Chrysler sells them, they're liable to ensure they're safe (relative to a V10 power tractor - just my opinion) as a car maker they can't use "sold as seen" as an excuse.

So they own 93 Vipers, that have been used, abused, striped, rebuilt and generally fked about with by 10 successive classes of students and they've no idea of their roadworthiness.

And whilst it might be lovely to say well Jay Leno will buy one for a million bucks, that sort of pales into insignificances if it sts a poorly fitted drive shaft or looses a wheel and ends up rolling down the road - because the lawyers will be out for blood (but mostly money, lots and lots of money) before it's even come to a stop.

As others have said, it's not a Bugatti type 41, it's just a mass produced car, the uniqueness seemingly limited to some paint and/or a number stamped on a tin plate.

[marcosgt]

Seems a shame, unlike some I'm a big fan of the Viper (seems odd people get all frothy over the mass produced Mustang and yet are happy to damn the Viper - I bet those who are haven't actually driven one...), but in the end, it's just a production car (albeit a fairly limited one, numbers sold make the 'vette look like a 3-Series BMW in Surrey for common-as-muck status, let alone the Focus-esque 'stang) and they probably always expected these cars to be fiddled with to death and them crushed.

M

[smilo996]

The rule of lawyers not the rule of law.

In a normal world these cars could be signed off and the liability signed off by Chrysler to the new owner as nauseam.

[smilo996]

The rule of lawyers not the rule of law.

In a normal world these cars could be signed off and the liability signed off by Chrysler to the new owner as nauseam.

[imagineifyeswill]

At the launch of the Renault Safranne Renault sent 6 top of the range cars too Britain for journalists to drive and review but cars werent to british spec, at end of testing a competition was organised for motor vehicle colleges to win one of these cars for training purpose. At competition end 6 colleges were given a car to keep but all identity details were removed obliterated so the vehicles could never be registered for road use.