Tuner John Hennessey of Hennessey Performance has stated in an interview with late-night TV talk show host Jay Leno that he plans to beat the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport for the title of fastest production vehicle of all time with his Venom GT supercar.
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There’s gilding the lily, and then there is this: An open-air version of Hennessey’s 1,200-horsepower Venom GT supercar. The Venom GT Spyder turns up the wick on its hardtop sibling to the tune of an additional $150,000, with a base price starting at $1.1 million. That’s a pretty steep charge for a removable roof panel, although Hennessey Performance Engineering CEO Don Goldman says Venom GT Spyder buyers will also get “an even greater driving sensation.” While we have yet to see official specifications or an order sheet for the Spyder, we imagine seeing “Extra wind and sound from the twin-turbo V8″ listed under standard equipment. Regardless, we know which one we’d take the keys to if given the opportunity: This Vitamin D special.
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Filed under: Aftermarket , Convertible , Coupe , Performance , Chevrolet What do John Entwistle, Rutherford B. Hayes, Hugh Jackman and Hennessey Performance Engineering all have in common? Very little, we imagine, outside of celebrating October birthdays. HPE is turning 20 this month, giving the Texas-based tuner the perfect excuse to build a celebratory Camaro .
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Filed under: Aftermarket , Coupe , Performance , Videos , Ford Having a drag strip behind your office would be both a wonderful play thing and an unyielding distraction. Hennessey Performance Design has such a delightful strip of attention-destroying asphalt at its disposal, and it uses this quarter-mile test track to examine the straight-line acceleration of its latest products. The most recent vehicle to run down this stretch is the Hennessey-tuned Ford Mustang Boss 302 Laguna Seca . According to Hennessey, the supercharged engine of this Boss 302 pumps out 650 horsepower.
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Video: Hennessey supercharges Ford Mustang Boss 302 Laguna Seca
Filed under: Aftermarket , Coupe , Performance , Videos , Ford Having a drag strip behind your office would be both a wonderful play thing and an unyielding distraction. Hennessey Performance Design has such a delightful strip of attention-destroying asphalt at its disposal, and it uses this quarter-mile test track to examine the straight-line acceleration of its latest products. The most recent vehicle to run down this stretch is the Hennessey-tuned Ford Mustang Boss 302 Laguna Seca .
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Video: Hennessey supercharges Ford Mustang Boss 302 Laguna Seca
Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Misc. Auto Shows , Specialty , MISC Hennessey has announced that it will show off its Venom GT on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at the McCall’s Motorworks Revival during the Pebble Beach weekend, which will take place at the Monterey Jet Center. Of course, we’ve seen various images of the car along with a few videos thrown in for good measure, but the Texas-based company says this is the car’s first official unveiling in the U.S. after making an appearance at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK
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Hennessey Venom GT making official U.S. debut at Monterey