Looks likea poor man’s Aston Martin. Not bad in the looks department. Now all they have to do is avoid the mistakes they made with the Prowler and Crossfire and make it with an available 6 speed MANUAL transmission.

This could be very interesting, I was wondering if they had the balls to put it into production.

WOW, the american car makers have hired real designers. Lets hope hey put a supercharged mercedes engine in it.

I liked this when it was first shown here a few years back. A nice design, bit of an Aston Martin in the rear (which is not a bad thing at all) This is the halo car Chrysler needs…

I like this too, however the name FIREPOWER is TEH GHEY! Whats the market for this car? Middle aged men in a mid life crisis and a case of erectile disfunction? Thats why there’s the Vette. “Firepower”…. thats so cheesy we need Mighty Mouse around.

4 vehicles are slated for this platform…

Viper ZC (2008 model year)
Firepower
*possible* ME-412
*possible* a Mercedes model.

These vehicles will utilize advanced manufacturing processes and materials (read: carbon composite a-la Diamondback) to be lighter, stronger, and more advanced.

Viper will innitially be ~650 hp ~650-700 torque, but the engine has been developed to easily be bumped to over 800 reliable hp.

Firepower will feature some variant of the Hemi, putting a minimum of 450hp to the ground, as much as 550hp could realistically be on tap.

If you look at the front, the car seems to come straight from the cars movie. it looks like it is trying to look behind him to check out who will be passing him now

Nice combination of power and class in the design. A refined Viper really. I like it from the pics but will reserve final judgement till I see it in the flesh.
That would be cool if the ME-412 became a reality.

The transmission on this platform is developed as rear transaxle-mounted; so producing the ME, Firepower, Viper, and SLR or Gullwing successor will allow for multiple engine layouts.

wow the rear looks like a 928. im impressed, i have given up hope on the DCX design dept. though an upscale viper seems to totaly miss the point of the viper. it jsut sounds like, well we cant beat the vette so we will just try to take on Porsche and Ferrari..

it’s in the Ludacris video….”money maker” when i saw it….they only showed the front and i thought it was one weird looking roll-royce….until i saw the chrysler label…..

Hey wickdated, there is a Mighty Mouse around…I have an iMac and the mouse it uses is called The Mighty Mouse! LOL!

the rear view is that of an aston. the front view is…without identity. and the audi-style led are not a great idea…even on the audi…it could be sell only in a very-very limited number of cars, or at a very-very low price. it looks very cheap. too cheap.

back is all DB9 and front is FUGLY really the killed the car in the front

Hey Leon what exactly looks cheap about it?
Just curious.

Shouldn’t they be moving the Dodge Viper down a little and place this Chrystler upscale? Dodge is the historic cheap brand while Chrystler is the pricier model. I like the looks of the concept and hope they can pull it off. The world needs more fast, pretty, expensive cars that I’ll never be able to afford (:

Looks exactly like an Aston from behind.

the front, it’s a design that make me think about a lot of plastic, because it doesn’t seem very “real”, just aconcept.then, american cars had always have a lot of chrome, but in this case, it seems again a fake stuff around the label. it don’t have the personality of a 300 C, which i like, and here in italy there are a lot, especially if you think it is big and “american”.

Nick, the Firepower is to battle the Vette, basically a Viper chassy with a hi-power v8. The Viper is still the pure, unaldultrated powerhouse sports car. They are trying to refine it to better compete with the 80-150k sports/exotic segment.

Brilliant. I hate to say it, but moves like this are making a Chrysler fan out of me. I’ve never really liked Chrysler cars because of their nototrius quality issues. But even quality issues seem to be diminishing. I think this is a beautiful car that would really be competeing against the BMW 6 series and the Porsche 911. If I remember correctly, they were thinking of a price point around 50-60k. So maybe moving the Viper up would make room for an elite model Firepower in the 70-80k range. I don’t really see this car competing with the Viper anyway in that it would be more refined… A businessman’s sports car.

it looks great! i’d like to see it in a differant color though. it definatly needs a name change too. i dont think chrysler is aiming this car at the vette, but the caddy xlr. i say, kill the crossfire, and replace it with this. or, make this the crossfire. why not?

I love the interior but the front looks stupid. I hope they put the vipers engine in this one

Total crap. I can’t believe they ripped off the Vantage like that. I hope this turd never sees production.

Nickis right……..they shouldbe pricing theviper to compete with the vette,and move the firepower as the ultimate powerhouse,but still under cars like the mercedez Mclaren(pricewise)

Hopefully it has a manual tranny like the viper. Auto only in the SRT6 Crossfire was a poor decision.

that would be a very smart move. the firepower looks very nice

Eh… Looks like a dressed up Crossfire… I don’t like it. For how much they are going to charge for this thing, if it’s going to look like an Aston, go buy one…. The paint is going to peel off the hood and roof anyway, it’s a Dodge.

Great. This should compete with the lower-spec Corvette, while the Viper could be the competitor to the Blue Devil version of the Corvette. Pretty interesting…

It’s not bad for an American Sports car. if this car wants to ever make people drool, they need to lose that grill that chrysler seem to always slap on, keep it open lose the chrome and the edges are too sharp. What I really like is the rear, kind of like a only porsche.

Wait.. so this is going to slot where the Viper used to be and the Viper is going to go slightly upmarket?
I like this car finally American designers do something fairly good. Hopefully it will have good numbers to go along with good looks too!

Why would anyone buy this crap! You could get 4 Aveos for this price, and drive a different one every other day. GM rules!

The grille is stupid. Where is the market for this car? AM V8 Vantage buyers nope Porsche 911 buyers, nope Corvette buyers, doubt it. I doubt this will see production, hasn’t chrysler learnt from the Crossfire debacle?

By the way there are 7 days in every week gm rules

Looks promising for sure, let’s hope it sees production! As for the Viper, if it is really moving up market, let’s hope they replace it’s disgusting and inexcusable “mini van” interior. When your $75,000+ sports car icon shares the interior with your soccer mom, people carrier…you’ve got problems

my freinds parents where in the market for a sports car. they test drove a viper because every other vehcile they own is a mopar. as soon as his father got in and saw the same AC controls as in his Ram they went to the chevy dealer and bought a Corvette droptop.

I just hope the interior is not the el-cheapo rubbermaid quality crap they put in the 300C. Even the SRT-8 300C has crap interior. The 300C SRT would have been on my shopping list if it weren’t for that deficiency. Please DCX, put a nice interior in this car, NOT walmart quality. At least match the cheapest of the german interiors (A4,3 Series, etc).

Thanks

300’s interior is being updated, as is the grand Cherokee for 2007

I kind of like it. It has hints of BMW 6 series, and Aston Martin in it.

I actually saw this car at barret jackson this year. It is kinda aston martin very true but it sure looks nice to me. The front grill needs a little work it looks like a big ass grin on its face, but overall REAL REAL nice looking. it had the 6.1 hemi in it at barret jackson but I guess they could also put the new 6.6 hemi in it as well (good ideaa to offer both). I agree they definetly MUST offer a six speed manual with this as well and some kind of sports handling stiffer suspension package as options. Looks real good to me i will check this out if it comes out and i am on my third Vette now.. Bravo Mopar your starting to catch up a bit.. more than we can say for Ford..

NIce produce it the way it is and DON’T change the interior from the production one.

Hemi power, Viper handling, less tacky than a Vette, under $50k. And it looks stunning in person, not at all plasticky (and not as Aston-like as you guys seem to think). The market for this car is non-mulleted guys who buy Vettes for the package but cringe at the looks and image. They ought to be able to do 10k a year without too much trouble. I’ll be buying one, assuming they offer it with a six-speed manual.

Chrysler…. lose the lines on the hood please.

Wow, an Aston Martin front end, and a Porsche 928 rear end. Even the tail lights are 928 ish. If it had the rear quarter windows, it would be almost exactly a 928 rip off. It does strongly resemble a concept from Carrol Shelby a few years back in the over all appearance. Pretty nice even though it has no original design element.

That’s a good looking car but I don’t see why they have to move the viper up. I mean is this car gonna cost around $80k also?

How much more upmarket can they make the Viper 0_0 Is it not expensive enough already? For most Americans a Honda Accord is a fantasy car!!! How can people afford these things?

DimeStore Chrysler should focus on building good quality cars that people can afford – not these psuedoeuro fatherland muthers.

the car is not going to be called firepower….they haven’t trademarked the name.this was just the concept name.

I was going to ask why does Chrysler have those lines on the hood? It may be something somewhat remmisent of older chryslers, but it doesn’t look good on modern cars like this. Same goes for all of the other models that you have that your doing it to.
Oh yeah and Dr. Z rules… it’s probably going to be more like 6 Aveos LOL. If this is going to slot somewhere around where the Viper is (or was when this comes out) it will probably be… 80,000$ (and Viper moved up some)? But then again that’s nothing more than a guess but still LOL

I dunno if it’s just me, but I see a Corvette in the front. Maybe its just the headlights…

The headlights look slightly like a Corvettes Daniel… other than that I don’t see any Vette in it.
So Vipers moving up market….

Aston Martin cross Ferrari? It floats my boat!

I have watched this for a few years now…I know the name FIREPOWER is only a working name as the name is owned by a battery line…

it is a georgeos car…interior is striking, love the aston martin styling…

I WANT ONE!!!!

I’ve been saying for years the best thing that could happen to the viper is replacing the gigantic v10 with a high-output hemi… could result in lower weight, better mileage, better sound, tighter moment of inertia (b/c if set back at the same distance, the CG of the engine would be further back), less heat soak, lower build costs, more conservative torque and lighter weight could mean smaller tires (could mean lighter wheels> less unsprung weight>better ride, more predictable handling)

My concern is that as a chrysler it won’t be built with low weight in mind and may actually end up weighing more than a viper, which would be a real shame…

At any rate, it’ll be better finished than a viper, at lower cost… so it’d pose a more legit comparison to other high-end GTs, like maybe a jag xk. But I’m hoping ‘vette territory

there’s a few concepts out with hemi’s and viper trans… namely the challenger, but also several hotrods. it’ll happen.

I hope they keep it priced low enough that the firepower will be a direct replacement for the crossfire. then it’d be a legit

The Reason it has the lines on the hood is probably too look like the boot of a 1961 Chrysler New yorker or something, same as the grill, kinda New Yorker/Old 300 series looking.. i like it.. but now to me it really DOES look like it’s looking backwards.. Still.. lets just hope the BIG 3 can get their act together… BRING BACK THE PLYMOUTH NAME WITH THE ‘CUDA AND SUPERBIRD WITH HEMIS PLEASE!!!!!

This car will make production by moving the Viper upmarket? Shouldn’t it be the other way around?

looks like a Concept car to me. thats where it ends.

Why not call it the Crossfire?

Kill off the old one and make this bad boy the replacement?