Christian Wardlaw’s Opinion of the 2006 Dodge Viper SRT-10 Coupe’s Comfort:
Getting in and out of the 2006 Dodge Viper SRT-10 Coupe is not easy. The door openings are very tight, the sills are very wide (and hot after driving the car), and the seats are mounted low and deeply bolstered. But once you get situated behind the steering wheel, you’ll find that the seats are close to perfection unless you’re morbidly obese. The three-spoke steering wheel is thick and pleasing to grip, designed for use at the ten-and-two as well as the nine-and-three hand positions. The baseball-sized shift knob falls right in your hand, and padded armrests sit at the same height on both sides (though the one on the driver’s door is thinly padded).

On a warm day, you need to run the air conditioning. Heat coming from the center drivetrain tunnel can bake occupants; thankfully temperatures were in the 50s and 60s when I drove the Viper. Despite the inclusion of Alpine speakers mounted between the seats, the stereo has trouble compensating for engine and exhaust notes, wind noise, and road texture. Better to leave the stereo turned off. Pop the rear hatch, and you’ll be surprised to find that there’s useable trunk space. Not as much as you’ll find in a Corvette, but then, the liftover height into the Viper is much lower than its closest competitor.

Thom Blackett’s Opinion of the 2006 Dodge Viper SRT-10 Coupe’s Comfort:
Think of that plush sofa that you fall into after every hard day of work, the cozy sectional on which you lounge watching movies all weekend and seem to find so perfectly suitable for impromptu naps. Now imagine using a machete to hack away every bit of fluffy cushion, leaving only the hard and unforgiving wooden frame, the one that requires you to conform to its shape rather than vice versa. And then picture that back breaker in a small box.

Welcome to the driver’s seat of the 2006 Dodge Viper SRT-10 Coupe. This is the perfect car for proponents of an age restriction on driving – there’s no way an arthritic grandparent is dreaming of getting into this automotive capsule, let alone putting up with the firm and overstuffed side bolsters or spine-tingling ride that comes from traversing even smooth pavement. However, for the exclusive shopper seeking a ride that will keep all body parts firmly locked down in high-speed corners, puts the thickly-padded steering wheel and shift knob in their ideal positions, and offers adjustable foot pedals for a perfect fit, the gruff Viper’s lack of finesse is actually desirable.

Brian Chee’s Opinion of the 2006 Dodge Viper SRT-10 Coupe’s Comfort:
If you buy the 2006 Dodge Viper and expect to find comfort, get your head examined. Interior room is cramped, the cabin runs hot, heat comes up from the transmission tunnel into the passenger compartment, and the sill exhaust covers are conveniently located where you want to place your leg when getting out. The Viper’s seats are a little tight, fore and aft seat adjustment is limited, and the two seats are separated by a large center tunnel that takes up too much room – pushing the seats out and compromising shoulder room. Getting in is no treat, either, because it’s so low-slung.

There’s a nice idea. Once you clamber inside, the good things about comfort are all driver-oriented. The pedals are adjustable, the steering wheel feels nice and meaty, and the seats are perfectly supportive. But movable pedals aside, if you’re tall you will not enjoy this car, nor will you if you’re wider than a normal American male, thanks to those really supportive seats and limited room for movement. Pedal play is designed for aggressive driving, as the pedals are close together and take some getting used to. Comfortable, this ain’t – but it’s also not painful, just a pain, and takes us back to where we write that if you buy this car and intend to drive it everyday, well, you should get your head examined. Used for aggressive driving on a track, however, you’re unlikely to notice the comfort compromises implicit in the Viper’s design.

Ron Perry’s Opinion of the 2006 Dodge Viper SRT-10 Coupe’s Comfort:
Getting in and out of the Dodge Viper SRT-10 Coupe takes a little getting used to. Developing your own contortions to make entering and exiting easier is just part of the ownership requirement. Once you have dropped into the form fitting seats, you find the sides and bottom to be well bolstered and the center console is at just the right height to rest your right arm and work the shifter. The white-faced gauges are a little small and hard to read but the vertical stack of gauges on the left side of the console for oil pressure and temperature, water temperature and battery couldn’t be any better placed.

The ride is firm but nothing other than what you would expect from a sports car in this league. The cabin is tight and formed around the occupants, as a sports car should be, but the downside to the Viper’s interior is the heat that infiltrates through the floorboard and transmission tunnel. It feels as though the heater is always on but you can’t sense any direct airflow. If Dodge could do away with the interior heat issue, there would be little left to complain about.