Chrysler said it is cutting production of its high-horsepower and high-priced SRT Viper at its Conner Avenue Assembly Plant in Detroit, reports Detroit Free Press.
The automaker will reassign some of the employees who work at the plant. The company employs about 170 at the Detroit plant, where it is capable of producing as many as 12 Vipers per day.
The production cuts result from lower-than-expected demand for the supercar. According to Chrysler spokeswoman Jodi Tinson, the company is still calculating how many employees will be reassigned and declined to say how much production will be reduced.
The base price for the Viper is $99,395 and $122,995 for the GTS model. The Viper has an all-aluminum, mid-front 8.4-liter V10 engine that delivers 640 horsepower and 600 pound-feet of torque.
Source: Detroit Free Press
