Dodge Viper GTS '96

The Dodge Viper GTS '96 is a Road car produced by Dodge. It appears only in the original Gran Turismo, being replaced with the Dodge VIPER GTS '99 in every later game of the series.

Handling
With a very good acceleration, an excellent top speed and a great stability, this vehicle can be considered the best road car available in the game, being capable to defeat easily practically every road car in the game with default specs, even if this car isn't tuned, making it the best choice for the Normal Car World Speed Contest, considered by many players one of the hardest race event in the game. When fully tuned, this car is a deadly weapon on high speed circuits, being capable of exceed 400 Km/h when the player use the slipstream of another car in the second event of the Megaspeed Cup, on the Test Course. However, the car still remain good in acceleration and stability, making it a good choice for the hardest races of the game, without using pure race cars.

GT1
This car can be bought in the Dodge Dealerships for 80.040 Credits.

Trivia

 * This car makes a cameo in the opening of Gran Turismo 2. It can be seen in a scene located in the bridge of the Grand Valley Speedway. However, this vehicle was completely removed from the game, with the 1999 version of this car that takes its place.
 * The blue with white stripes paint scheme of this vehicle can be replicated in Gran Turismo 6, through the use of some blue paint chips on a Dodge Viper GTS '02.
 * In the demo versions of Gran Turismo 2, this vehicle is present in the game data, and can be played through the use of cheat codes, such as Gameshark. This may hint that this car was probably planned to appear in Gran Turismo 2, or used as a placeholder while the Dodge VIPER GTS '99 was not yet finished.