Car Throttle

Another small operation starts, only to close. With Devon Motor Works though, it isn't because the company ran out of cash. Back in the dark days of summer 2008, with Chrysler heading toward bankruptcy, Devon Motor Works made an offer for Viper while Chrysler was attempting to sell it. Being a lowball offer of only $5.5 million, Chrysler rejected. Apparently there was more to the whole thing than it first appeared. Chrysler recently announced that the current Viper will be ending production in 2010, with a new model to come in 2012. This has thrown a wrench into Devon's plans. Beyond sharing the same V10, the sharing goes deeper than that, to include the chassis and other components. Given that, all the work Devon has done to produce

The United States really doesn't have a supercar equivalent to the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini. The Corvette and Corvette ZR1 are perhaps the best examples, as well as the Dodge Viper. The latter is a heavy part of a project that does aim to provide an American supercar - the Devon Motor Works GTX. It uses a modified version of the Viper's V-10. The GTX recently toppled the record for the highest speed time around Laguna Seca, incidentally set by a Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR. Now, it appear that record has been beat yet again - by (you guessed it) - the Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR.  SRT Driver Chris Winkler took the Viper around the track for six hot laps before lapping it in a scant

At today's marathon six-hour long briefing on the future of Chrysler, perhaps the biggest news we haven't heard before was information about the future of Viper. The car's future has been in doubt over the past year. Prior to bankruptcy, Chrysler deemed it as one of the assets it had worth selling. No buyers were found and the "brand", as Chrysler liked to call it, continued with the company throughout the bankruptcy process. Chrysler received only one offer for it, a lowball from Devon Motor Works (of GTX fame). To the surprise of many, the Viper's Conner Avenue assembly plant was the first Chrysler plant to go online post-bankruptcy. The smart owners at Fiat realized the value of the Viper brand name and its

The much-anticipated GTX from Devon Motorworks (that's actually the correct punctuation) was shown live today at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. Along with new pictures (cue the overwhelming applause), Devon has put out a press release now containing all the important information about the car. Say hello to the "American supercar"! Devon joins the list of American companies like DiMora Motorcar (which I'm going to do a piece on soon) that aim to bring America back into contention in the upper echelons of motoring. To be honest, American brands have been out of the running for a while in high-end luxury and exotic performance circles. Corvette maybe, Ford GT? Other than that, there hasn't been a many. A lot has been said about the way this car looks,

The Dodge "Viper brand" has been on a whirlwind of sorts as Chrysler trudged it's way through financial difficulties and resulting bankruptcy. There is no doubt that the Viper name and the car is iconic - it has tons of fans around the world and the car has helped be a positive light for the Dodge brand. Chrysler recognized this and thought that they could capitalize on it. As a result, they included it in their list of valuable assets and attempted to sell the "brand." Well that didn't work out so well, with only one lowball offer coming in from Devon Motor Works at $5.5 million. Unsurprisingly, that offer was rejected, leaving the future of the brand in doubt. After that, many people speculated the brand

As you probably know, Chrysler (well the good parts anyway) have emerged out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy and the partnership deal with Fiat has been completed. Pre-bankruptcy and during bankruptcy, Chrysler publicly stated that it was attempting to sell the Dodge Viper line to another company. It then emerged that the only official bidder was Devon Motor Works, with it's lowball $5.5 million bid for the brand. Apparently, that has been rejected. There has been a number of theories though as to why the Viper brand didn't get sold. Some say that Chrysler has indeed gotten offers for the Viper as high as $30 million, but Fiat was afraid of the Viper competing with Maserati and Ferrari and therefore was discouraging any offers. I'm not sure what exactly