DETROIT, MI - Part of a four-year labor agreement with Fiat Chrysler that UAW workers will vote on next week calls for ending production of the Dodge Viper in 2017, Automotive News reports.
The trade publication said the $5.3 billion in production investments laid out as part of the UAW-FCA tentative agreement does not include a plan to replace production of the Viper, which is hand-built by about 80 workers at the Conner Avenue Assembly plant in Detroit.
Through the first nine months of this year, sales of the Viper have declined 8 percent to 503 cars sold, versus 546 Vipers sold during the same period last year.
In September 2014, what was then Chrysler Group LLC announced that the base price-tag of the 2015 Viper SRT was being slashed by about $15,000 to $84,995. The Auburn Hills automaker said that that prices the sports car more competitively, after adjusting for inflation, with the first generation Viper.
The 650-horsepower Dodge Viper was introduced in 1992 with a $50,700 price tag, the equivalent of $86,130 in today's dollars.
The trade publication said the $5.3 billion in production investments laid out as part of the UAW-FCA tentative agreement does not include a plan to replace production of the Viper, which is hand-built by about 80 workers at the Conner Avenue Assembly plant in Detroit.
Through the first nine months of this year, sales of the Viper have declined 8 percent to 503 cars sold, versus 546 Vipers sold during the same period last year.
In September 2014, what was then Chrysler Group LLC announced that the base price-tag of the 2015 Viper SRT was being slashed by about $15,000 to $84,995. The Auburn Hills automaker said that that prices the sports car more competitively, after adjusting for inflation, with the first generation Viper.
The 650-horsepower Dodge Viper was introduced in 1992 with a $50,700 price tag, the equivalent of $86,130 in today's dollars.
