The Hennessey Venom GT is Pure Texas Madness !
DRIVE EXCLUSIVE: With only six examples built to date, the Hennessey Venom GT could be considered the fastest street car in the world. Built off the Lotus Exige, this tuner car packs a 1200+ horsepower punch with a theoretical top speed of 272mph. Host Matt Farah takes a quick ride in the million dollar Texas built supercar
Don't mess with Texas...or Hennessey.
From the moment you set eyes on it, the Hennessey Venom GT just screams ridiculousness in the best ways imaginable. Its 6.2-liter twin turbo V8 produces 1,200 horsepower and 1,155 lb-ft of torque and rockets from 0-60 mph in only 2.5 seconds. It even has a good old six-speed manual. The mid-engined machine tips the scales at just 2,685 lbs. thanks to liberal doses of carbon fiber construction. Say what you want about its Euro-built rivals, but the Venom GT may just be the purest hypercar on the market today.
Could the world's most exciting aftermarket tuning firm hail from the Lonestar State? We certainly think so.
It’s hard to find anything negative to say about Hennessey Performance. It may just be downright impossible. The Texas-based tuning firm/house of awesomeness just keeps outdoing itself by building kits for some already incredible cars. Hennessey has unquestionably become one of the finest all-around aftermarket performance firms on planet earth, and has even produced its own Veyron-beating supercar in the Venom GT. We picked out five videos that best showcase the company's many talents. We just had to start off with the Venom GT. Hennessey’s world-class hypercar recently hit a speed of 265.7 mph and John Hennessey himself claimed this was good enough to take the "world’s fastest production car" crown from the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport.A modified Ford GT by Hennessey? Yes, please. This twin-turbo GT, decked out in a military-style paint job, recently beat its own record of 257.7 mph at the Texas Mile. For 2013, it blazed along that same pavement at a scorching 267.6 mph.With 1,226 horsepower and 1,109 lb-ft of torque on hand from its a 7.0-liter, twin-turbocharged V8 .Hennessey’s creations, of which just 12 examples were built. It can go from 0-60 mph in 2.9 seconds and tops out at 242 mph.
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