1400 Horsepower Hennessey Venom F5 is the S*#t!
Let me start off by saying, John Hennessey is a flippin’ psychopath. The horsepower obsessed Texan aims to set the world on fire strictly from the overrun on his 1000 horsepower beasts of fury! Now he has a slightly different version of his already ridiculous Venom GT aimed squarely at setting a new World Record.
For those not up to date on current World Production Car Records, John and his terrifyingly brilliant Venom GT can’t claim the top spot due to the fact that it takes 30 cars to qualify to compete for the record.
It’s a sore subject with John who believes, and rightly so, that Bugatti and the lawyers from VAG pressured Guinness into making an arbitrary number in order to beat the little outfit from Texas.
Now however, Hennessey is going from Bugatti’s jugular with this. The Venom F5. Named after the worst type of tornado possible, the name definitely fits the car. It has enhanced aero, better brakes, a much more technical computer system, and of because this will be built in Texas, a metric s*#t ton of more power.
Hennessey is targeting around 1400 hp, but no official numbers are being released due to the fact that Hennessey himself doesn’t know the final number. He’s going to try to get every single ounce and every single horsepower out of that 7L twin turbo V8. And because 1200 hp just isn’t enough to hit his target of 290 mph!!!!!! Just think about that for a second, 290 mph, in a road car. A. ROAD.CAR.
The new cars body will be purely made out of carbon fiber, nothing else to reduce its weight even more. It will use the same underpinnings as the normal Venom, just enhanced to go even faster. One difference between the new car and the old one, besides horsepower and body, will be the addition of a single-clutch paddle shift transmission. The old car only boasted a 6-speed trans lifted from the Ford GT.
The new car will make its debut next year, and production is set to deliver the first cars in 2016. John is definitely going after the record with this car. Production is slated for a total of 30 cars which meets the qualifier. The only problem. Where to test it. There aren’t many places in the world where you can reach those types of speed in a production car.
Currently, VAG owns really the only track where you can push the limits, and I doubt they are going to let some upstart Texan show up its $3.5 million engineering experiment. But seriously, 290 mph? Holy s*#t.