RE: Chrysler selling the Viper?
Vipers are built 6 per day. By hand with no assembly line robots. Every engine is started and tuned prior to install. You can buy a Viper and pick it up at the plant while you meet people who built it....
All that being said... the things were not even comfortable to drive until the last couple of years. I bought my first Viper in Washington, shipped it up to Alaska and drove it for 6 months and sold it for more then I paid for a new one 2 years later.
No matter who bought it, it would still be remembered as a Dodge. An odd car for Dodge, but a Dodge all the same.