Hennessey Venom GT Teased Yet Again [Video]

Venom GT features a V8 engine tuned to 725 hp, 1,000 hp, or 1,200 hp.

Here is a teaser video with some more images of the upcoming Hennessey Performance Venom GT.

You know an automaker is ambitious when their aim is to make the Bugatti Veyron look slow. Hennessey Performance - going by the very telling initials HP - has equipped the Venom GT with a V8 engine (displacement unspecified) that can be tuned to the customer's liking, beginning at 725 hp, with 1,000 and 1,200 hp variants rounding out the three options.

The numbers are worthy of being locked in a padded room. The top speed of 440 km/h (272 mph) soundly beats the Veyron's 408 km/h (254 mph). The 0 to 60 mph (96 km/h) sprint takes only 2.4 seconds.

The car is light, coming in at 2400 lbs (1088 kg), which can account for a lot of the performance. But still, to slow the thing down, it needs massive brakes, and is fitted with 14-inch carbon brake rotors (6-piston calipers at the front, 4-piston for the rear wheels).

Price? $600,000 or €438,000 or £398,000. Expensive, yes, but likely one of the best bang-for-your-buck deals around.

The Hennessey Performance Venom GT will debut on March 30th and will be shown to the public at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK in July - as appropriately named a venue as you can imagine.

Source: Hennessey Performance

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Mikeado

Not exactly much to preview is there? "Ooh look, a really fat Lotus Exige". I can't care much for this car. It's just another extreme tuner with a big V8 that most people will probably forget about in a month or so. Don't get me wrong, I'm not outing supercars, but whilst this can go fast, a Veyron can go fast with complete security and comfort. I'm sure if Bugatti tweaked the engine and threw out most of the interior, the resulting car could go equally fast. Low budget "Veyron-beaters" are becoming like X-Factor winners, and I don't care about them either.

March 16, 2010 9:09 am

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dbehmoaras

I don't think that people will be forgetting about this car if it beats the Veyron, but you make some valid points. At the limit, this will probably feel like it's coming apart at the seams. Another thing is that Veyron was built so that it can retain its performance in the long run. I don't know how reliable this is going to be.

March 16, 2010 9:50 am

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MTC

It's very powerful but, making a car that beat Veyron's top speed doesn't means much because the Veyron makes everything so effortless, it's really a simple matter of putting it in D and floor it. Veyron is build from the ground up to be a car that can go 400km/h +, not modified to be a car that can go 400km/h + using some highly modifiable engine from some company that supply engines to them and not using a rear transaxle from Ford GT (according to infos from C&D), everything on the Veyron is bespoke and unique. and when this car beats the top speed record, finally we can say good bye to fanboys of the kit car lookalike SSC Ultimate Aero TT

March 16, 2010 10:34 am

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mblackner

Comparing these two cars is like comparing apples and oranges. The veyron weighs twice as much and is much more sophisticated. Just cause the power to weight ratio is better in this car it doesnt make it comparable. Sure, its gonna be fast but good luck launching that car. Im sure its two wheel drive. The veyron is an engineering achievement that most likely will not be surpassed by any company let alone some small company like Hennessey. They should stick to drag racing and tuning motors for idiots.

March 16, 2010 12:23 pm

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mblackner

Its great how all these small companies try to make a name for themselves by targeting the Veyron in a speed challenge. If your going to compare than weigh the same or at least close add some cylinders and put your car through its paces for the next eight or nine years. Develop a car that is a loser on the books just to prove a point. This is why there most likely will not be another Veyron. Ferdinand was possessed with the car and had to have it made even though the engineers tried to change the shape. No car will be like it because it doesn't make financial sense to do so. Cars will have better power to weight ratios than the Veyron, yes and hypothetically they should be faster. If it were only that simple. This car needs to be compared to a gumpert apollo or something like that. This car sounds dangerous and probably needs an expert driver to even get it to hook up. Too much motor for that car.

March 16, 2010 12:33 pm

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