The Bugatti Veyron is sitting in the Guinness Book of World Records at 267.8 miles per hour. Apparently that has been stewing in the brains of John Hennessey, especially since a 270.49 mph blast down the landing strip at the Kennedy Space Center in a Hennessey Venom GT was disqualified because there wasn’t a return trip, and because only eleven Venoms were made instead of the minimum of thirty. Instead of just pumping out a few more and making a new shot at the record with the Venom, Hennessey has taken the madman’s route and decided to grab the bigger hammer to kill the enemy.
When the “smaller hammer” was 1,244 hp, what do you do to one-up it? Instead of tweaking the Venom slightly, Hennessey has created the Venom F5. Yes, like the tornado. Still based off of the monster that they carved out of what was a Lotus Exige frame, the F5 aims for two targets: more horsepower (somewhere about 1,400hp good enough for you?) and a drag coefficient of 0.40, an improvement over the Venom’s 0.44. Oddly still, instead of just straight-line acceleration, which is what the Venom is recognized for, the F5 is actually expected to go racing around a track. One of the new trick bits is a GPS-based traction control system, which can be tuned for a specific track. One of the named tracks: Nürburgring Nordschliefe. Watching a 1400hp go kart try the Green Hell should be, at the least, entertaining, if not outright stupid. Bonneville has also been mentioned.
Expect the Venom F5 to start appearing in 2016 at a cost well over $1.2 million dollars. Hey, speed costs money, right?
(Source: TopGear)
Errr ….perhaps we should be rewording that headline to say;
” Hennessy killing Hennessy ”
…… seeing as how nothing coming out of their shops seems to hold up for more than a run or two … committing automotive suicide more often than not assuming they are driven .
As far as anything Hennessy may build ever beating the VeryGoneWrong’s record….
[ jeeze I hate that Bugatti … and in fact despise having to defend it against the likes of Hennessy … but then again I hate everything Hennessy’s ever made or done even more .. as do the majority of Hennessy owners ]
…… perhaps it would behove Mr Hennessy to look at the rules before going off half cocked when it comes to his unsubstantiated , unverified , unofficial and nary even a neutral 3rd party present ludicrous claims ?
Oh …. and by the way . A little heads up for Mr Hennessy and his pretentious bs . There’s a Scandinavian in town … now legal in the US … locked … loaded and ready to fire should VW ever give him permission to use their track that the VeryGoneWrong has set all its records on ( which will never happen ) … to blow away the Veyron as well as anything Hennessy could ever even hope to come up with .
His name … Christian von Koenigsegg as well as the name of his car being …
….the Koenigsegg One:1
Koenigsegg – Genuine ingenuity and engineering vs Hennessy’s slap it together and hope to god it holds until the check clears ethos
A third party did verify the 270 – there is a long write up on it and a video accompanying it.
I don’t like the Koenissegg and people have had problems with them too.