bergstsm

From the NAIAS:

http://www.freep.com/autos/photos/au...ower/index.htm
Dodge Viper Frame....Hemi engine.

Check out the picture from the rear........just me, or does it look familiar?

Shawn

hacker-pschorr

Very Aston Martin ish rear end.

heinrich

Venn you say "Viper" mitt ein Deutsches accent, you ennt upp mit "Firepower"

bergstsm

I saw S4-ish taillamps and S-like tail there.

BTW, too late, but I saw this was already checked out earlier......sorry

Randy V

Hmmm,

928ntslow

Was at the LA auto show yesterday and although THAT car wasn't there, there was one that looked just like it at the Ford area...but theirs is a concept on reintroducing the Cobra hard top...which looks very similar to the Chrysler Firepower interestingly enough.

What Chrysler DID have, was a supercar named the " Four-Twelve" with better specs than a Saleen 7 if you can believe that! 700 ft/lbs x 600+hp, looked very very nice inside too!

heinrich

I think the S model looks like this:

PorKen

heinrich,

Way to bust out the photoshop skillz.
...

Where's bcdavis? Didn't we already discuss those taillamps?

(Red LED band on top, white LED band on bottom)

heinrich

I heard they were going to call it the "Backfire" first, but then they decided it was a bit too close to "Crossfire".

hacker-pschorr

928 is a stretch, looks like a 2nd cousin to this rear end:

sublimate

Two can play at that game:

blau928

Keith,

The ME 412 from Chrsler has many parts made by Pagani, and the v12 is a MB unit, which will also be featured in the next Pagani car... The prototype displayed at Pebble this past summer had 800hp/TQ, and the problem was that it crushed the transmissions, so they got Ricardo to do some strengthening... Competition for the Bugatti Veyron....

Oh, the Firepower is a target for the DB9/Vantage from Aston Martin... The new DB9 is one extremely good looking car.. So is the new Vantage..... Very Posh indeed...!

heinrich

If only I had a nice full head of bushy, supple wavy luscious hair like that ... <sniff> ... Thanks Sub ... din't know you cared

bcdavis

The rear of that firepower is similar to what I would prefer any "new" 928 to look like.
Something aggressive, and yet keeping with the original lines.

With a few minor changes, that rear end could very well be from a "new" 928...

I'd so much prefer that it look something like that, rather than the design concepts we have
seen in the past, that make it look like a bloated boxter.

I like the clean look of the rear window, rear tail-lights, etc.
The front has too much junk on it, but the rear is pretty slick.

dr bob

Does anybody else get a feeling like there's a spot there on the other side of that rear buttress where you could hide a freight train? One of my pet peezes about many of the styling-exercise cars is poor visibility anwhere but forward. The first Countach was a joy to drive fast, but a nightmare in traffic when a herd of bees buzzed around it. Most of them to the rear and rear sides were out of sight of the driver. You don't dare change lanes without a burst of throttle to get ahead of the swarm.