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| Black leather seats with cloth inserts, white-faced gauges and 5-point racing harnesses. The ACR means business. |
The seats are covered in leather, but it's almost as stiff as a horse's saddle rather than the soft-as-silk luxury car variety. The seats themselves are relatively comfortable, just the same, and extremely well bolstered. They don't recline very far and the steering wheel tilts but is not telescopic, making it a challenge to find an optimal driving position. Fortunately its pedals are manually adjustable, but are nevertheless extremely close together making heel-toe downshifts difficult. The driver's footwell is cramped to boot.
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| The Viper ACR's 460-hp and 500 lb-ft of torque (450-hp and 490 lb-ft of torque before 2001) is adequate for blistering accleration. |
Complain, complain, should I have expected a limo? One thing's for sure the ACR equipped Viper GTS commands more respect than an overrated airport shuttle. With that in mind, if there ever was a car that a driver aught to respect, this is it. The ACR, or any Viper for that matter, is hardly a mild mannered 'sports car' but rather a race car that just happens to be street legal. This particular version comes equipped with a specially tuned engine that delivers 10 additional horsepower and 10 more lb-ft of torque from a freer-breathing intake system. It also gets an adjustable suspension, racing wheels and the five-point racing harness I mentioned previously.