To say that SRT boss Ralph Gilles was unhappy with the results of our comparison test between the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 and the SRT Viper GTS would be like saying Michael Corleone was a little disappointed in his brother Fredo. Ralph was understandably livid. After all, the largest automotive publication in the land had just said that his new baby — the only product in his brand’s stable and the car that somehow survived the executioner’s axe during Chrysler‘s bankruptcy largely thanks to his force of will was not as good as a four-year-old Chevy mere weeks away from going out of production. Rubbing salt in that wound, with racing great Randy Pobst at the wheel, the ZR1 set the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca production car lap record with a time of 1:33.70, beating the old record — Dodge Viper Ups the Ante”>held by a Viper ACR — of 1:33.92 in the process. I’d be upset, too.(via : motortrend )
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