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According to a report AutoWeek magazine, Chrysler will pull the plug on the Viper when it shutters its fabled Connor Avenue Assembly plant in Detroit, Mich., in two years. That’s where each Viper – and there aren’t many of them – is hand-built. AutoWeek cited a copy of a pending labor agreement between the UAW and Fiat-Chrysler as stating the plant will be closed and the Viper discontinued. Officially, so far, Dodge has neither confirmed nor denied that the end is near for its two-seat sports car.