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In 2014, Hennessey Performance sent its Lotus-based Venom GT flying down a track at 270 miles per hour before claiming it had built the world’s fastest production car. However, not everyone recognized Hennessey’s claim, as it did not average the Venom GT’s top speed of two races in opposite directions, and with so few examples built, it did not meet Guinness World Records criteria for a production car. But Hennessey’s record-setting aspirations did not die with his reputation, and on Tuesday, the company revealed its Venom GT successor: the Venom F5.
Named after the most destructive tornado class, the Venom F5 is a hypercar built by hand on a carbon fiber tub from KS Composites in Great Britain. Hennessey said Car and driver that the first example was completed in Britain, but that the remainder of the 24-unit production will be assembled at a new facility in Sealy, Texas, where the performance shop will combine that tub of composite material with a twin-turbo V8 that calls “Fury.”
According to Top gearThis 6.6-liter powerplant is derived from General Motors’ small-block V8, although all components have been altered using knowledge gained from drag racing. Just below its 8,200-rpm redline, the Fury is said to produce 1,817 horsepower, or 67 more than the other American hypercar that aspires to speed records: the SSC Tuatara. In addition to sharing a Reason to beBoth hypercars appear to share a transmission, as each uses a CIMA-supplied, single-clutch, seven-speed automatic transmission, albeit presumably with different gear ratios at the very least.
On the Hennessey, however, this transmission has to deal with a noticeably less torque:alone 1,193 pound-feet, although it’s supposedly enough to turn the tires on in the first four gears. Despite the traction control, that is, because with it on, Hennessey claims the 3,053-pound Venom F5 can explode its Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires to skyrocket from zero to 60 mph in 2.6 seconds, and hit 124 after just others 2.1. According to “early simulations”, zero to 250 is claimed to take just 15.5 seconds, more than twice as fast as the Bugatti Chiron and seven seconds faster than the Koenigsegg Regera. And with enough flat terrain ahead, Hennessey says, the Venom F5 will hit a record 311.
If you’ll remember the last time someone claimed a paradigm-shifting performance of this caliber, they did so for a vaporware sports car that was said to float in midair, during a presentation that also promised “Total Autonomous Driving.” Hennessey’s world-leading claims should be taken with an equally high tablespoon of salt until he puts them to the test in spring 2021, when he will return to the 3.2-mile Kennedy Space Center track to hit the top speed record. . If he fails, John Hennessey says he will attempt the record on a closed road like Koenigsegg and SSC did in their respective attempts.
And the road will have to be closed, since the Venom F5 does not have airbags, it will not be federally approved and will be sold in the United States with “show and show” titles, as John Hennessey said. Car and driver. It’s a bit surprising to hear that they have sold as many as 14, with a base price of $ 2.1 million.
