Check out those huge vents penetrating this test mule’s camouflaged hood, and just try to tell us that the rumors about McLaren working with Chrysler Group to bump the 2008 Dodge Viper V-10’s output to 650 horsepower aren’t true. Compare that estimated figure with what today’s Viper produces – a mere 500 ponies.

Our source contends that the 2008 Dodge Viper will appear in the first quarter of 2007, and that there will not be a 2007 model because of the early launch. We’d bet on a 2007 North American International Auto Show debut of the new mega-horsepower Viper.

*Photo copyright Brenda Priddy & Company

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