Tag: Hennessey

Because John Hennessey is my spirit animal and we both need horsepower to survive.

I love the world that John Hennessey lives in. A world that revolves around horsepower, BBQ, and bacon. It’s the best thing about America. Sure, we have freedom from oppression and all that jazz, but when you really boil it down, America is about power and extracting as much out of something as humanly possible. […] More »

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. […] More »

 UPDATE – Round NINE Winner: Porsche 918 Spyder! Ah yes… March. I’ve never been one to pay much attention to March madness, when it comes to college basketball, but I do like the idea of a good tournament. So instead of blathering on-and-on about basketball on a car site, we’re doing our own little battle Royale throughout […] More »

Outrageously powerful cars are almost always cool, but not all of them are interesting. Christian von Koenigsegg’s newest example of rolling hyperbole is both. This car is so over the top, it doesn’t just make 1,341 horsepower.  It generates one megawatt. Maximum torque from the revised twin-turbo 5.0-liter V8 is 1,011 pound-feet.  And that’s without […] More »

UPDATE – Round one winner: The Porsche 918! Ah yes… March. I’ve never been one to pay much attention to March madness, when it comes to college basketball, but I do like the idea of a good tournament. So instead of blathering on-and-on about basketball on a car site, we’re doing our own little battle Royale […] More »

Boom. And just like that, Hennessey now builds the fastest car in the world. Over the weekend it officially ran up to 270 mph. That’s faster than the Bugatti Veyron SS, which makes the Venom the new king of the hill… Kinda. Guinness wont recognize the record because they didn’t do the run twice (forward […] More »