300mph Will Be A 'Baseline' For The Hennessey Venom F5
It seems like a new top speed war is brewing, doesn’t it? Last November Koenigsegg astonished the motoring world by sending an Agera RS down a closed road in Nevada at ridiculous 284mph, and now SSC wants to make its Tuatara even faster. Texas-based Hennessey is hoping to do the same with the Venom F5, with claims that the car will be able to hit 300mph.
That’s quite a suggestion, but now company founder John Hennessey has gone a step further: that 300mph mark is apparently just a starting point. “300mph is the kind of baseline – that’s where we would like to begin,” he told Topgear.com. However, there are two pretty big stumbling blocks that may prevent the car from getting all that far beyond the figure. “The tyres and the venue of where we’d run the F5 are the limiting factor,” he explained.
The F5’s predecessor - the Venom GT - performed a 270mph run on the 3.22-mile Shuttle landing strip at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but this time around, Hennessey wants to do the deed in Texas. State authorities have apparently already expressed interest in aiding the effort.
While the customer cars - of which only 24 will be made - are expected to pack around 1600bhp from a 7.4-litre twin-turbo V8, the record car will develop much more. How much more? That won’t be revealed until next year, but the GM-derived engine has already been tested at over 2000bhp…
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America intensifies
Sooo, the “production” car will not be the one to break the record? Does that mean that they will release another version of the car with the GM sourced engine? It would be great to see hennessey actually break a record officially this time around.
All bark and no bite. Buggati comes out with a car and then shows it off, so does koinesegg. Building such hype is only what crappy companies do. (Before you say that its a new company, neither pagani nor koonesegg did this. Nor did rimac. )
‘Baseline’? Baseline? Hennessey already said that it will go 301mph
Am I the only to thibk that it’s not fair to give “way more power” to the record car ? I guess it’s okay to just make 24 cars and to not give them full potential ?
It seems to be a lie like “this production car is the fastest in the world but in fact it’s not because it does not have the same amount of power but who cares MURICAAAA”
Because America.
It won’t be the fast production car though, if the test vehicle is putting out more power
So remind me again, what is exciting about this?
Until they test thst car Koenigsegg will unveil next Generation of Agera Rs
This went 293.6mph in a standing mile. Step up your game manufacturers.