Hennessey

Hennessey Performance Engineering of Sealy, Texas has announced that production of its world-beating Venom GT has come to an end. The last example is a Venom GT coupe marked the Final Edition and clothed in a unique blue finish called Glacier Blue. It’s already been sold at a price of $1.2...

The 2017 Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] F-150 Raptor has finally landed, and it’s better than its predecessor in pretty much every way possible. The only downside, at least to some, is that the second-generation model ditches the original’s V-8 in favor of a twin-turbocharged V-6. It may...

Buy a Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Mustang Shelby GT350, get Hennessey Performance to install its HPE800 supercharger package on it, and you’re instantly the biggest badass on the block. Don’t believe us? Just hit play on that video above. Make sure to dial the volume down first, though...

You can forget about the Mercedes-AMG G63 6x6 because Hennessey Performance will build you a much more badass six-wheeled, off-roading truck for a lot less money. Meet the Hennessey VelociRaptor 6x6, based on the 2017 Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] F-150 Raptor. It’s priced from $295,000, which...

The Texas Tuner is at it again. This time he's not prepping a new Camaro or Corvette for high-speed, high-horsepower duty. Instead, he's turned his attentions to the Cadillac Escalade. Yes, the large luxury SUV from the GM stable just got a massive dose of power, and you can put one in your garage...

It doesn’t get more badass than this. Strapped to the dyno of Hennessey Performance Engineering is a 2016 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat dishing out hypercar-like numbers. The car features the tuner’s HPE1000 Twin Turbo package. That’s right, the folks at Hennessey have added a pair...

Despite the Viper being the flagship of the Dodge brand, it’s outmuscled by the Challenger and Charger SRT Hellcat when it comes to outright power. And we’re not talking small numbers here. The Challenger and Charger SRT Hellcat each make do with 707 horsepower versus the 645 hp of the...

Last month we saw the Hennessey Venom GT Spyder enter the record books as the world's fastest open-top production car. The all-American hypercar reached 265.6 mph during a scheduled run at California's Naval Air Station Lemoore, with independent speed-testing firm Racelogic on hand to confirm it...

The housing market is booming in metro Houston...and so, apparently, is the drag strip market. Those looking for their own stretch of pavement where they can exercise their rubber burning rides can now pick up their own quarter mile of heaven. Houston-area tuner Hennessey Performance Engineering is...

Hennessey Performance decided it needed to do something spectacular to celebrate its 25th anniversary, so it went out and broke the top speed record for an open-top production car in its 1,451-horsepower supercar. On March 25, 2016 the Hennessey Venom GT Spyder posted a top speed of 265.6 mph at...

Update: Hennessey has revealed that its 2016 Venom GT Spyder has set a new land speed record for open-top production cars. Full details here. Hennessey’s Venom GT has entered the record books, although the company remains quiet on what record the 1,451-horsepower supercar has actually...

Tuner extraordinaire Hennessey's latest Chevrolet Camaro SS has officially joined the 200 mph club. Scratch that... the HPE750 Camaro SS is actually in the 202 mph club. Piloted by Brian Smith at the Continental Tire Proving Grounds in Uvalde, Texas, the modded Camaro SS features a 751-horsepower...

The 2016 Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Mustang Shelby GT350, especially in GT350R track tune, is probably the greatest performing Mustang of all time. It's built to kick ass at the track, sound mean on the street, and erase any notion of the straight-line only solid rear axle performance of some of...

Texas tuner John Hennessey has turned his sights on the new Chevrolet Camaro, more than doubling the factory-build Camaro SS's 455-horsepower output. With 1,000 horsepower, the 2016 Camaro SS Hennessey HPE1000 Supercharged Upgrade will no doubt be blindingly fast in a straight line. It's worth...

It might not officially be the fastest family hauler in the land, but it must be close. John Hennessey has turned his sights to the Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat sedan with a new twin-turbo package that cranks up the power 1,032 horsepower at 6,500 rpm. Because, well, the stock Charger SRT Hellcat's...

We’ve been seeing lots of independent tests of the new Chevrolet Camaro but what about the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Mustang? Well, here’s the latest Shelby GT350 variant undergoing dyno and acceleration tests conducted by tuning house Hennessey Performance. This is a stock version...

We love the new 2016 Chevrolet Camaro SS, and now we have a better understanding as to why. Tuning firm Hennessey Performance just got its hands on one, and the first thing that it did was to strap the car to a dyno. ALSO SEE: Devel’s 12.3-Liter Quad-Turbo V-16 Dynoed At 4,515 Horsepower...

Hennessey just upped power on its Venom GT to a staggering 1,451 horsepower, and as hard as it is to believe the company says an even more potent model, the Venom F5, is coming soon. It turns out, though, that Hennessey has even grander plans for its Lotus-based supercar. ALSO SEE: Bugatti Veyron...

It isn’t quite the Venom F5 that the company has been teasing, but Hennessey Performance Engineering has delivered an updated version of its Venom GT supercar that boasts considerably more power than before. The good news is that the Venom F5 is still coming, but to tide things over in the...

Professor Loco, or John Hennessey as he prefers to be called, is at it again. This time he's turned his tuning wrenches on the Dodge Challenger and Charger SRT Hellcat twins to give the cars a much-needed (?) shot of power. These cars come from the factory with a supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 engine...