Last Friday, at the pretentiously-named-with-a-comma-even “The Quail, a Motorsports Gathering” event in Monterey, California, Hennessey Performance Engineering unveiled the engine that will power its new flagship supercar, the Venom F5. HPE claims the engine is a “newly developed unit,” and that the engine is entirely…
A few weeks back, we wrote about how John Hennessey said he’ll be able to break the 300 mph with his planned Venom F5 supercar. We found that it’s extremely unlikely that the F5 could make 300 mph on the Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires the car currently uses. John Hennessey himself reached out to us to discuss this,…
For a while now, the next big goal in the never-ending quest for speed has been to hit 300 mph in a road car. The race to break that barrier has been heating up lately, with Koenigsegg’s average 278 mph record-setting run in Nevada demonstrating just how close we are. Bugatti might have something to say about it too.…
All Ahmad Ali wanted was a Chevrolet Corvette souped up to have enough horsepower to defibrillate God. To realize this dream, the Qatari went to one of the most famous names in the car tuning business: John Hennessey. But three years later, he is still fighting Hennessey Performance Engineering for more than $70,000…
Hennessey Performance Engineering is currently the only tuner in North America who owns their own test track—but that could change for the right buyer. Lonestar Motorsports Park, the IHRA-sanctioned quarter-mile drag strip next to Hennessey’s headquarters in Sealy, Texas, is up for sale.
What’s the fastest you’ve ever gone with the top down? Whatever that is, Texas-born and Texas-proud Hennessey Performance just topped that by a long shot. For the tuner company’s 25th anniversary, they just set a new world record for fastest convertible sports car by running 265.6 mph at Naval Air Station Lemoore in…
We’ve already seen plenty of insanity from Hennessey, but now the Texans have taken their “add more power” recipe and applied it to the sixth-generation Camaro. The result: 751 horsepower and a top speed of 202 MPH.
We know there’s only one reason to buy a Dodge Challenger Hellcat; the inexhaustible shit-talking rights that come with 707 horsepower. But now the cat’s been out of the bag for a while, and that jerk you were trying to one-up in the first place went and got a Hellcat of his own. This means war. You need 1,032…
That’s no ordinary “Used 2010 Lotus Elise.” Read further down the page, and you’ll see that this is the fastest production car in the world—at least until the Venom F5 comes out. This ultra-rare, hyper-fast Hennessey Venom GT is for sale at a dealer across from a Sheetz near Pittsburgh for a cool $1.25 million.
The in-house competition at Chevrolet between the Camaro SS and the Corvette C7 just heated up with a recent dyno test of the SS putting more horsepower down at the rear wheels over its not-so-superior sibling.
When Hennessey got its hands on the previous generation of Cadillac CTS-V, they took the already-brutal 550-horsepower V8, and cranked it up to 1,200 horses. With the new one, the company appears to be playing it safe for the moment. The Hennessey HPE1000 ups the ante from the 2016 CTS-V, with its 640 horsepower, and…
Right now on Reddit, there’s a thread on /r/cars going pretty nuts, about one man’s displeasure with famous maker of absurdly fast cars John Hennessey’s Tuner School. Are his complaints warranted? We asked John Hennessey himself, so you can decide.
I know what you’re thinking: the Texas-built Hennessey Venom GT is good and all, I guess, but maybe it’s just a little underpowered? Maybe 1,244 horsepower isn’t quite enough to get the job done? It may be the fastest car in the world, but... ehh? Fortunately Hennessey is here with a solution, and that solution is…
The straight at Lime Rock Park is barely a straight at all, meaning that you’re going to have to push hard to get real speed there. An ORECA FLM09 Le Mans Prototype will, for instance, break 150 mph. Watch this Hennessey Venom GT do 155 MPH. Then watch Travis’s face.
The 2015 Hennessey VelociRaptor SUV takes the current Ford F-250 and turns it into an eight-seat ass-hauler with a front bumper like Quagmire’s chin and a supercharger on the 6.2 gasoline V8. It’s the 2015 Ford Excursion we won’t get, plus tons of horsepower.
Here’s a little background on how John Hennessey ended up building the VelociRaptor 600 for Jeremy Clarkson to beat the crap out of in one of his last Top Gear episodes. More importantly; sweet shots of the truck doing donuts in the snow and mud.
The next episode of BBC Top Gear puts Richard Hammond in a tent and Jeremy Clarkson in a Hennessey supercharged Ford Raptor. James May's driving a heavy-duty Chevy Silverado Z71, and really owning this hunting-camo-with-turtleneck look.
Are you tired of hauling your glorious state flags of Texas around at a meager 100 or 150 MPH? Of course you are — who wouldn't be? Well, you have reason to be delighted, since the good folks at Hennessey have just run their supercharged HPE700 Mustang at an alarming 195 MPH.
With 665 horsepower and 658 lb-ft of torque, the supercharged Hennessey HPE650 GMC Yukon might be the meanest thing around with seating for seven and a 7,000 pound towing capacity. The obvious question is; can hold its own against Dodge Challenger Hellcat?
Hennessey built over 400 VelociRaptor high-performance versions of the outgoing F-150, and they plan to work their magic again on the new aluminum-bodied truck to create the 2015 Ford F-150 VelociRaptor 600 Supercharged; easily the fastest and most off-road ready rendition of the pickup yet.
