Please note, I specifically didn't say "a Viper"... I said Viper.
Fiat isn't getting the Viper Program from Chrysler... they are holding it back. And it is on the block. Robert Nardelli, the Hero of Home Depot (where is the eye rolling icon when I need it) has let it be known that the Viper Program can be had for $10,000,000... including the factory where Vipers are assembled.
Right now there isn't anyone offering up that kind of dough. The highest offer on the table is $5.5M. And of course any buyer is going to have to have something left over for actually keeping the program running.
So, how about this... We can get 1 million people to put up $30 each... that would be $30,000,000... would that do the trick? Everyone that invests could get a discount on a Viper...
And of course we would expand the product line just a little...
- Gotta have the nasty powered V-10
- Gotta have the slightly nastier track version ACR V-10 (American Club Racing)
- How about an entry level SRT Hemi V-8 Viper?
- Maybe even an eco-friendlier hybrid version (electric wheel motors and a gas powered generator)?
- How about a full electic version?
Keep the look mostly the same... but have a few more options.
Part of the problem is that currently it isn't important for the Viper Program to be profitable. It is a way to get people into the showrooms as well as have racing success... and an engineering platform. But as an independent entity, it would need to generate a profit.
That is the bottom line... could selling Vipers actually be profitable? I think it could... maybe...
And just for the record... I'd LOVE to run that company... the company car would ROCK!
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I'd love to hear from you...
Hi Lane,
It certainly wouldn't be a bad ride, that's for sure!!! ...Oh, and please let me know if you come across the company offering a Viper as the company car!!!
Michael
This would be a tough vehicle for me to show farmland but I would be willing to suffer through it
Scott
Count in my $30!!! Only I need a Viper too. I need something to put my husband's Ram 1500 Hemi GTX 8 cyclinder in it's place! Oh it it has to be some wild color too.
Hey there Lane! I'll invest $3000.00 if that means I would end up with a Viper! Woo Hoo! I'll take the orginal V-10 with just a drivers seat and a rollcage, for I enjoy the simple things in life! *sigh*
~Melissa
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but since we're here we might as well dance!
Michael - If I had the money, my company would offer it... to me.
Scott - Think of the time you could save between properties...
Kim - Woo hoo... up to 4 investors.
Melissa - You'd still have to buy it... you'd just get a discount.
Lane, First if they were priced with-in reason they would sell and why not 500,000 at $60.00 each. Or $120.00 and 250,000 people if so include me in.
Don - They are reasonable for what they are... But they are unreasonable cars. I still want the company.