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Haha, Im so confused why you guys think it would be hard to drive a viper. It seems like as long as your head is screwed on the right way, you could handle it. If he's 18 he would have to be driving for atleast 2 years?
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Leaving aside my never having met an 18-year-old whose head was screwed on the right way when it comes to mega-horsepower cars... two years of driving, in the absence of professional instruction, doesn't make for very good driving skills; often it just makes for some ingrained bad habits. Most people in their *30s* or older, even "car guys", can't drive worth a [crap]. There's a reason why cars like Vipers (along with certain motorcycles, airplanes, and boats) are called "doctor killers"
If nothing else, IIRC the Vipers (at least, IIRC, the ones
Series1 was referring to) didn't have ABS. While plenty of us learned to drive without it, few of us really *mastered* braking (as in, spot-on consistency when threshold braking in emergent situations) until we got professional training in a controlled environment.
And anybody driving a Viper *is* gonna have to do some pretty skillful braking some day, or else they're not using the car for anything a [regular car] couldn't do just as well
Oh, and another argument against a Viper- the sidepipes get *HOT* and passengers won't appreciate getting their calves/ankles burned (think you can tell a young lady it was *her* fault because she wasn't careful enough? Heh heh, good way to have all-male company
).