While this really doesn’t qualify as “news,” the above photo still has us excited enough to share. It’s the first official image of the new 2013 SRT Viper with stripes. You see, we were a bit nonplussed when the Viper debuted at the New York Auto Show without its trademark livery.

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Perhaps it was to better focus attention on the sheetmetal’s new curves, but we still missed seeing the lines down the middle on the show stand.
Chrysler has rectified that as shown in this single image of a red example on SRT’s Facebook page. According to the caption, the example seen here is an engineering prototype undergoing dry-track stability control testing, an evaluation it apparently passed “with flying colors.”
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