
Dodge Viper GTS-R GT2 White 1997 Maisto 1:18

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Specifications
- Brand
- Dodge
- Manufacturer
- Maisto
- Scale
- 1:18
- Material
- Diecast
- Model Condition
- Used Model
- SKU
- 50316
- Year
- 1997
- Era
- 1990s
- Body Type
- GT Models
- Vehicle Class
- Historic GT & GTE
- Openable Parts
- Yes
- Packaging Condition
- Traces of Storage
- Model Type
- Race Models
- EAN / GTIN
- 4003402503168
About the Dodge Viper GTS-R GT2 White 1997 Maisto 1:18
TL;DR: Maisto's 1:18 diecast reproduces the Dodge Viper GTS-R, the GT2-class racer that carried Chrysler's V10 muscle into endurance competition including Le Mans in the late 1990s. Finished in white racing livery, this entry-tier diecast puts American GT racing on the shelf affordably.
American V10 muscle didn't often show up on the Le Mans entry list in the 1990s, which makes the Viper GTS-R's endurance racing career one of the more distinctive American motorsport stories of its decade.
The GTS-R's GT2-Class Endurance Career
Dodge built the Viper GTS-R as a dedicated GT2-class competitor, taking the road-going Viper's brutal V10 and wrapping it in a widened, aerodynamically optimized racing body built to survive twenty-four-hour endurance events including Le Mans. It represented a genuinely American approach to GT racing, leaning on displacement and raw torque where European rivals often favored higher-strung, smaller-capacity engines, and it competed credibly against that established competition through the late 1990s. For collectors of endurance racing history, the GTS-R offers a distinctly American counterpoint within a category usually dominated by Porsche, Ferrari, and other European GT specialists.
Maisto's Entry-Tier Take on American GT Racing
The GTS-R's wide, flared racing body with its deep front air dam and towering rear wing gives Maisto's tooling genuinely dramatic shapes to work with, and the white livery applies cleanly across the car's broad, flat panels. Doors open on functional hinges revealing a simplified racing cockpit rather than a fully detailed roll cage interior, and panel gaps sit wider than a specialist resin builder would produce, an honest trade at this price. For a collector building a shelf of 1990s GT racing across manufacturers, this Viper offers real American motorsport presence without the cost a rarer resin edition of the same subject would demand.












