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Chrysler orders destruction of $250K Dodge Vipers

Chrysler giveth and Chrysler taketh away.

On Tuesday, the Detroit-based automobile manufacturer ordered that the complete collection of educational donation Dodge Vipওer SRTs must be crushed within two weeks.

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It is believed that 9🐈3 of the $250,000 pre-production vehicles will be destroyed nationwide, , a paper out of Washington state.

A spokesman for the company would not comment on the decision, but Norm Chapman, a professor at South Puget Sound Community College in Tumwater, Wash.🌱, said he thought it was because two of the vehicles were involved in accidents that cost parent company Fiat millio𒈔ns.

Car companie🎐s regularly donate vehicles that cannot be sold to high schools, colleges and tech schools for educational purposes, according to the report.