Venom GT
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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 California's Naval Air Station Lemoore. The speed was confirmed by Jim Lau, technical director at the independent speed-testing firm Racelogic and was witnessed by U.S. Navy Commander Darren Fouts, Air Operations Officer. Brian Smith drove the car to its record run. ALSO SEE: Nissan sets drifting...
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1,451-horsepower Hennessey Venom GT sets world record--update
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...
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Hennessey Mulls All-Electric Venom GT
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...
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2016 Hennessey Venom GT Gets 1,451 Horsepower: 2015 SEMA Live Photos
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...
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Hennessey Venom GT Driven To 270.49 MPH Can Be Yours--For $1.4 Million
Not only is this sale an opportunity to own a Hennessey Venom GT. It's an opportunity to own the example used to make the 270.49 mph run which proved John Hennessey's V-8-powered, Lotus-based supercar could best the the top speed of Bugatti's formidable Veyron. Given the performance and pedigree...
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Hennessey Venom GT Prepares For Pebble Beach, First One In White: Video
Hennessey is taking its Venom GT to the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance this weekend and has released a video showing the firm’s preparation of the car for its upcoming presence in Monterey. Hennessey, which recently announced plans for an even more extreme Venom F5 supercar, says the...
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The mind-boggling speed of Hennessey Performance Engineering’s Venom GT is well-established. But for John Hennessey and crew, 270 mph just isn’t enough. Now they’re shooting for 290 mph. How? With a modified and updated version of the Venom called the Venom F5. Speaking with Top Gear, Hennessey said the 290 mph mark should be doable, matching the speeds of the tornado wind speed the car shares its name with. MUST WATCH: Bugatti Veyron Super Sport Hits 246 MPH On Public Road: Video The upgrades necessary to push past 270 mph into the 290 mph range will include power...
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Hennessey Announces $1.25 Million Venom GT World’s Fastest Edition, Already Sold Out
If you wanted to get your hands on the new special edition of the Hennessey Venom GT, you had to know the right people—most likely, John Hennessey himself. Because the new red, white, and blue World's Fastest Edition of the supercar is limited to just three units—and it’s already...
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Hennessey Venom GT breaks on through to the other side
Earlier today, we told you about John Hennessey and his team taking their Venom GT supercar out to a NASA runway to give it the ole' Texas try. The top recorded speed was 270.49 mph. That's enough to best even the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport's record top speed by a small margin. It's a much larger...
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Hennessey Venom GT Blasts Down Runway at 270.49 MPH
UPDATE: Watch the Hennessey Venom GT Hit 270.49 MPH For some time now, John Hennessey and his team have been making fast cars much faster. In 2011, the Hennessey Venom GT was created in order to offer John's customers something that was capable of going from hyper-legals speeds into hyperspace...
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Hennessey Venom GT, GT-R, CTS-V Lap Circuit Of The Americas: Video
The Circuit of the Americas is a world-class facility and a very challenging track to master. Pair that with the world-class Hennessey Venom GT (which also looks rather difficult to master) and you have a match made in Texas. Here, we see the Venom GT chasing a Hennessey-modified Nissan GT-R during...
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You Saw It Break A World Record, Now Buy The Hennessey Venom GT At Half Price
Updated with input from John Hennessey himself. The Hennessey Venom GT has just entered the record books for being the fastest accelerating production vehicle to 186.411 mph (300 kilometers per hour), needing just 13.63 seconds to achieve the feat or about 1 second less than a Bugatti Veyron Super...
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A few weeks back, we brought you word that a Hennessey Venom GT driven by John Kiewicz had set a new Guinness World Record as the fastest two-seat production car from 0-300 km/h (186 mph), taking just 13.63 seconds to reach this velocity. If you wondered what such a feat would look like from inside the car, the above video answers that question rather well. Since Guinness requires a two-way average on speed record runs, the 13.63-second record was the average of a 13.18-second run and a 14.08-second run. The video’s details show just how much weather conditions impact velocity, as the...
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Hennessey Venom GT Hits 186 MPH In 13.63 Seconds, New World Record
If you thought the Hennessey Venom GT was anything other than world-smashingly fast, you just haven't been paying attention. Now, however, it holds the title of world's quickest--to 186 mph, at least. The specific details of the feat, accomplished today, will be forthcoming in an episode of Drive...
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2014 Hennessey Venom GT2 Coming With More Than 1,500 HP: Update
Did you ever wonder how much fun a stretched Lotus Elise platform would be if you shoehorned in a twin-turbo Chevy LS V-8 engine? Tuner extraordinaire John Hennessey wondered the exact same thing, and hence the Hennessey Venom GT was born. As the car heads into its third year of production...
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Steven Tyler showing off his Hennessey Venom GT Spyder at Pebble Beach
Aerosmith front man and now-former American Idol judge Steven Tyler is also a car guy and a motorcycle guy. Like the rest of us, he enjoys hitting up car and motorcycle shows as his schedule permits; the difference is, we don’t get to show off our $1.1 million Hennessey Venom GT Spyder at the...
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Steven Tyler buying Hennessey Venom GT Spyder
Steven Tyler may well be the hardest working man in show business. When the 64-year-old singer isn’t fronting Aerosmith (which is gearing up for another tour this summer), he’s one of the judges on American Idol. In between is the occasional solo project, new Aerosmith recording or...
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Jay Leno's Garage Revisits the Hennessey Venom GT In Street Legal Trim
Hennessey's 1,200-horsepower Venom GT is perhaps one of the most impressive American hotrods built on a British basis in the last half-century. Like the classic AC Ace was turned into a Cobra in Carroll Shelby's hands, the Lotus Exige in John Hennessey's has taken a lightweight British sports car...
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If you think 270 mph in a convertible is a good idea, there's probably only one car that comes to mind: the upcoming Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Super Sport. That's really the only supercar out there that could possibly deliver that blend of world-record-level speed and open-air touring. Or it was the only car in that category until Hennessey announced a convertible version of its Venom GT for a 2012 debut. The standard Venom GT hasn't actually set a world speed record like the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, but Hennessey does list its top speed north of 270 mph. As you probably recall, the car...
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First Hennessey Venom GT Delivered To U.S. Making 2011 Pebble Beach Debut
The first example of the 1,200 horsepower Hennessey Venom GT delivered to a U.S. customer will make an appearance at the 2011 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
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2011 Hennessey Venom GT Mega Gallery
With only 10 examples scheduled to be built each year, it’s safe to say that the 2011 Hennessey Venom GT is one supercar you’re unlikely to lay eyes upon in the near future, if at all. Thankfully, the guys at Hennessey have unleashed this stunning gallery of their latest effort, with...
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2010 SEMA Preview: 2011 Hennessey Venom GT Roars On Video
The ultra-performance Hennessey Venom GT, built on a modified Lotus Elise platform but wrapped in custom body work, lengthened, and with a mind-bending 1,200-horsepower twin-turbo V-8 engine amidships, will make its North American debut at the 2010 SEMA show. This video gives a taste of the 262-mph...
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2011 Hennessey Venom GT revealed
American-designed and built supercars are on the comeback, it seems, with the Devon Motorworks GTX making its debut at the 2009 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and now Hennessey Performance Engineering revealing its Venom GT supercar in its final form for the first time. Originally announced as...
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272-mph 2010 Hennessey Venom GT Coming To Next Geneva Motor Show
Hennessey Performance Engineering is best known for its highly tuned exotics, but soon it will be building its own supercar.
Nelson Ireson