Then it would not be a Viper, just like the new Corvette looks and drives more like an Audi than a Corvette.
I have no interest in cookie cutter super cars that turn out numbers. I don't go to the track because I miss math class, and I don't buy cars based on what magazine idiots think. Most of the opinions out there are told to you by journalists, not gearheads.
Like this flat plane crank BS. Don't let marketing wonks make your decisions for you or you'll end up paying $600,000 for a license to watch football in the backseat of a front wheel drive quad turbo hybrid Scion.
Lambo was asked to provide a large displacement, high torque V10 concept engine for Viper, and they delivered a high revving 4L feature filled **** box. Chrysler said "okay, well maybe you just tell us how to pour aluminum without holes in it" because Europeans can't get past HP per liter of displacement. What's that mean? Even if their 2L was the size of a MAC truck they'd sing its praises for making 400hp while making fun of a 10L V8 the size of a shoebox that makes 700hp. No one ever taught them that volumetric efficiency is just good rods, big ports, and big cams, not some super badge of honor. Since every four stroke ICE out there can't get past 30% efficiency anyway, why bother with so-called "high tech" solutions? Getting past the buzz words means an engine is just a cube or rectangle that makes torque and the best one is going to be the smallest and lightest with the biggest lungs.
Best example I can think of:
Honda 2L I4 making 240hp @ 9,000rpm
vs
GM 3900 V6 making 240hp @ 5,000rpm
Both engines are decently compact and all aluminum, and probably pretty close on weight and external size. The Honda makes 160ftlbs at 7800rpm, the GM 3900 makes 240ftlbs from 1500 to 5000.
What's the point? Europe and Asia do it wrong, so don't be like them.