ChyrCo Court Docs: Dodge Viper Part of "Bad" Chrysler

Robert Farago
by Robert Farago

Section 2.15 Viper. (a) Subject to Section 2.15(b) below, notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, (i) Seller may, at its option, sell Intellectual Property and Purchased Inventories that relate solely to Vehicle Production (as defined in the Transition Services Agreement) and are not necessary or useful in any other line of business (the “Viper Assets”) prior to the Closing Date in an arm’s-length transaction to a party other than Purchaser on terms and conditions reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser, provided that the right of the Seller to sell the Viper Assets shall terminate on June 8, 2009 if no binding written agreement to purchase the Viper Assets has been executed and delivered by a bona fide purchaser at such time, and (ii) in connection with any such sale, Seller and Purchaser, as applicable, shall grant to the purchaser of the Viper Assets on terms and conditions reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser a non-exclusive license of other Intellectual Property of the Seller necessary for Vehicle Production as currently conducted.

The Purchaser shall at the request of the Seller work in good faith to facilitate such sale. If the sale of the Viper Assets is consummated prior the Closing Date, the Seller shall receive in trust for, segregate and convey to the Purchaser on the Closing Date all right, title and interest in the proceeds of such sale, which proceeds shall constitute Purchased Assets for all purposes of this Agreement. If any commitment to purchase the Viper Assets is made prior to the Closing Date, but not consummated, the Purchased Assets shall include Seller’s right, title and interest in the Viper Assets and in any agreement evidencing such commitment and any related or ancillary agreements entered into in connection therewith.

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  • Alex Nigro Alex Nigro on May 04, 2009

    Are you kidding me? As Dewey Cox's father would say, the wrong kid died! Keep the Viper operation, merge it with Ferrari. Problem solved!

  • Fallout11 Fallout11 on May 06, 2009

    Only a handful of Vipers are sold each year, far fewer than any other manufacturer's "halo car". As a result, Viper production was slated to be discontinued in 2010 anyway, even before Chrysler was bought by Cerberus. Sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  • Brendan Duddy soon we'll see lawyers advertising big payout$ after getting injured by a 'rogue' vehicle
  • Zerofoo @VoGhost - The earth is in a 12,000 year long warming cycle. Before that most of North America was covered by a glacier 2 miles thick in some places. Where did that glacier go? Industrial CO2 emissions didn't cause the melt. Climate change frauds have done a masterful job correlating .04% of our atmosphere with a 12,000 year warming trend and then blaming human industrial activity for something that long predates those human activities. Human caused climate change is a lie.
  • Probert They already have hybrids, but these won't ever be them as they are built on the modular E-GMP skateboard.
  • Justin You guys still looking for that sportbak? I just saw one on the Facebook marketplace in Arizona
  • 28-Cars-Later I cannot remember what happens now, but there are whiteblocks in this period which develop a "tick" like sound which indicates they are toast (maybe head gasket?). Ten or so years ago I looked at an '03 or '04 S60 (I forget why) and I brought my Volvo indy along to tell me if it was worth my time - it ticked and that's when I learned this. This XC90 is probably worth about $300 as it sits, not kidding, and it will cost you conservatively $2500 for an engine swap (all the ones I see on car-part.com have north of 130K miles starting at $1,100 and that's not including freight to a shop, shop labor, other internals to do such as timing belt while engine out etc).
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