Vector W8 VS. Dodge Viper | American Drag Race Special with Carwow

What will you win in a

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between a Dodge Viper and a W8 Vector? Well, let's find out because I'm going to compete with them in the standing quarter mile. I'm in Watson and this has been organized by the Peterson Automotive Museum Ren, let me tell you about this Dodge Viper, so this is a pre-production model, it was actually built in 1991, the cars went on sale to the public in 92, so which has an 8L naturally aspirated V10 engine that delivers 400 horsepower and 600 newm of torque and drives the rear wheels through a six-speed manual gearbox. This car weighs about 1.5 tons and when new it cost about $50,000, today it is worth about $50,000 now let me tell you about that Vector W8.

It has a 6L twin-turbo V8 that generates 625 horsepower and 880 new m of torque, however, it drives the rear wheels through a 3-speed automatic gearbox that comes from a motor home. What similar weight is this car? Approximately 1 and a half tons when new although much more expensive in 1991 that car cost almost $300,000 today it is worth $12 million the car was supplied by the interim collection and is on display at the Peterson Automotive Museum but is driven by Chris from the interim collection Hi Chris, how are you? I'm fine. I must say your car looks amazing thank you. It's a little small inside.

It's quite big on the outside. Elegant. It looks incredibly powerful, but I think you might be hampered by your silly three-speed gearbox. Auto, I'd say you're probably right, that might even things up a little bit, but let's find out now, before we do the

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, let's do a sound check, so I'm going to rev my 8L V10. listen to this, go on, so Chris, what you have sounds better, right? I couldn't hear yours here, yours is probably very loud inside, all I heard from yours was a moan, I think it might be the turbos but I don't know, yeah it's probably the turbos anyway, let's move on race 3 2 1, come on Dred, I think Chris, you may have been slightly hampered by your three speed car going off the line, yeah, I think you're probably right, oh dear, let's find out what happened then, shall we? what exactly happened?

Well, the Dodge won, it completed the quarter mile in 12.2 seconds, the

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took 13.7 seconds, you know what we should do? Chris, let's take that initial pitch out of the equation, so instead we're going to go into the quarter mile run, the starting motor will start We the normal way, when the hands start to go down, we both hit it and then We'll see what happens, that's fine with me, let's do it. 3 2 1 oh it's closer in the back a come on it comes it comes it comes I thought you were going to come back and have me then I thought I was getting you yeah I can't believe it what happened at the end he did that like going from second gear to third gear and I was too high .

I don't know if the Viper is fast, although yeah, I mean, I think I just crossed the line in third and my third gear is like yours. I don't know, 1.5, I guess. Yes, something like that is about talking about gears in the wheels, that's what matters, you know, let's do another race, let's do a ride from 50 thousand hours. I'll pick whatever gear I want to be in your car and figure out what it wants. Do it with its three speeds, we'll hit it and see what happens, see who crosses the half mile marker first, okay, sounds good, sure, and finish our race, then Chris, so three, two, one, I'm not sure Where are the 630 horsepower in your car?

I don't know either, but it's not the most fun to try and star in it. You're quite relieved that it's not running like it has 630 horsepower, maybe it's the gearing, that's exactly what it is, yeah, it could be anyway, listen Chris. It was fun. I love this environment. It is very pleasant to drive. How is that? How does it make you feel when you drive? I've driven a few things and this is nothing I can really relate to. It's like a cross. between a plane and a car, it's certainly an interesting looking thing, there are hints of Lamborghini Countach and then other parts of the front almost like Buatti B110 in some respects.

I don't know, it's just a strange but very interesting car, yeah. It's a very attractive thing and yes, it feels great to drive. I don't know how practical it is, although it's probably as practical as this, which isn't very practical. Listen. I really hope you enjoyed the video if you gave it a chance. Like it and if you haven't already, make sure to subscribe to this channel. That's okay, because there will be a lot more drag racing thanks for watching.