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Dodge Viper "Challenger" Is Not Your Typical Muscle Car

The final part of last decade has seen SRT having to make a difficult choice, with the Viper vacating the halo car seat, which was occupied by the Hellcat. However, thanks to the amazing assets of the Viper, a monster that rivaled Italian exotics for a fraction of the price, its fan base is still large enough to make itself heard. So the rendering we have here, which gives a different kind of Mopar twist to the Viper, shouldn't come as a surprise.
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By now, those of you who follow our Speed Shot tales (there's a tag for that below) are familiar with such face swap pixel efforts. Even so, at first, it might be difficult to get past the impact of seeing a Gen V Viper sporting the front end of a classic Dodge Challenger, hood included.

Oh, and as if the result wouldn't look badass enough, those meaty fenders, filled with the type of wheels you'd expect to find on a restomod project, are something to behold.

Then again, there are many other things we need to consider. For starters, Dodge and SRT and currently shaping the next generation of go-fast machines. Alas, nothing has been said of the Viper ever since its 2017 deminse, even though letting go of a name that already has history would be a shame.

As for the Challenger and Charger, here's a rendering portraying a potential next iteration of the latter, with this having been shared by FCA design boss Ralph Gilles.

Now, if you think such a mashup is crazy, you should see the Highway Star build. We broke the news on this 2020 SEMA-bound project last month and we're basically looking at a 1970 Challenger riding on a second-generation Dodge Viper SRT-10 chassis, all with Hellcat firepower.

Returning to this rendering, it is the work of Matt Bellamy, a digital artist whose name we first mentioned when discussing the amazing collaboration he had with Batmobile designer (think: 2021 The Batman) Ash Thorp, which resulted in a virtual revival of the Saab brand, clear carbon composite and all.

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About the author: Andrei Tutu
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In his quest to bring you the most impressive automotive creations, Andrei relies on learning as a superpower. There's quite a bit of room in the garage that is this aficionado's heart, so factory-condition classics and widebody contraptions with turbos poking through the hood can peacefully coexist.
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