Chrysler Ordering Rare Pre-Production Vipers to be Destroyed

[Mr Twisty]

GM sold off quite a few cars from their collection a few years ago... One car was the LT5 3rd gen Camaro. Best I recall they were sold without MSO's, maybe that was their out?

http://www.gmhightechperformance.com..._chevy_camaro/

[MLL67RSSS]

Yes, and in 2009 the government stepped in and temporarily halted the sales of the GM cars that weren't street legal before relenting and allowing them to cross the block.

http://jalopnik.com/5206775/barrett-...alted-by-nhtsa

[Sales @ CAI Inc]

Originally Posted by calebparkin3

It's because we live in a "no matter what happens it's always someone else's fault" country. I cut my finger while making dinner. It's not my fault I wasn't paying attention. I'm going to sue the radio station for playing music to distract me, the store I bought the knife from for carrying it. The cashier for letting me pay for it, the knifes manufacturer for making it, the trucking company for delivering it ect. I have no faith in civil court.

^^ This.

Discussions like this, whether about cars or not, just drive me absolutely crazy. Whether I buy an ultra fast prototype car or not, I can still get behind the wheel of any "legal" car and kill myself or others just as easily. Its a decision of the human being to act reckless, not the cars. Its like blaming the gun instead of the shooter, blaming the video game for the messed up teenager, blaming the beer company for the drunks behavior. People make decisions and people are who to blame, crushing these cars is absolutely pointless, and as long as the court systems keep allowing items like cars, guns, tv, and music to be blamed for peoples actions, these kinds of things will never go away.

[Scalded Dog]

Originally Posted by Sales @ CAI Inc

Discussions like this, whether about cars or not, just drive me absolutely crazy. Whether I buy an ultra fast prototype car or not, I can still get behind the wheel of any "legal" car and kill myself or others just as easily. Its a decision of the human being to act reckless, not the cars. Its like blaming the gun instead of the shooter, blaming the video game for the messed up teenager, blaming the beer company for the drunks behavior. People make decisions and people are who to blame, crushing these cars is absolutely pointless, and as long as the court systems keep allowing items like cars, guns, tv, and music to be blamed for peoples actions, these kinds of things will never go away.

And THIS^^!!! Well said!

On the other hand, in an entirely different angle, these Vipers are just cars. Sorry, don't mean to offend or blaspheme... but, they are not human lives, they are not perfectly unique (there are OTHER Vipers out there, even if not the same prototypes or special eds.), and, making something rarer adds value to the "survivors." If you have ten cars each with a collector value of $100,000... and you crush five of them... the remaining five might then each be worth $250,000. Granted, destroying a handful of these Vipers might not send the Blue Book values of remaining Vipers into the stratosphere, but it's likely to have some impact.

I love cars... really, I do. But I'm also fine with avoiding the hoarder mentality... throwing stuff out is okay to do.

[MikeSVX]

Blame it on our sue for anything you can society and the lawyers. It's better to destory them and bit the cost than risk millions of dollars in a lawsuite because someone gets drunk and wrecks it and tries to say the car was defective. Look at What happened to the Mazdas on the ship that rolled over. Every single car had to be destroyed. Even the ones not damaged. The yards the cars went to weren't even allowed to sell parts off them. Everything had to be melted down.

Imagine how cheap you could have gotten some nicer rims or a Mazda Speed turbo engine for your older Miata if they had allowed the parts to be resold.

I would have even loved to see the cars goto Track only use, rather then just crushed.