Hennessey Tells The Story Of Its Epic 265mph Venom GT Spyder Speed Run
Last month, the Hennessey Venom GT Spyder became the 'world's fastest convertible' after hitting a massive 265.6mph. This video takes a behind-the-scenes look at what went into the incredible top speed run
This bonkers top speed run is yet to be recognised by Guinness as an ‘official’ world record and most likely won’t ever be. Like the previous speed ‘record’ clocked by the coupe Venom GT, the Spyder’s effort won’t be considered by the organisation as not enough of the cars have been made for it to qualify as a production vehicle.
Official or not though, I’m sure we’ll all agree 265.6mph in a car without a roof is a stunning achievement.
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If a bird hits you in the forehead going that speed, it’ll go straight through…
It’s own arse.
Jezza 😂
How it feels to drive the Hennessey spyder
lol
I saw this news like:
take a fast car and remove the roof how hard can it be!?!?!?
Structure dude. A normal car would probably fold in half at those speeds with no roof.
But why would you want convertible car that go more than 200mph
Could you imagine that wind noise?
Dont forget the unstability…not everyone that can afford it would be able to control it
Is it based on the Lotus? Like do they take a Lotus and make it a Venom or do they make it from scratch? It wouldn’t be a production car if they didn’t make it from scratch right?
I think it’s from scratch but they just take design and the chassis from it
When the camera car is faster than the record breaking car.
The fastest manual. :)
Bonkers amounts of speed, bonkers amounts of power with a manual
My question is : Did they used another Venom GT to film it ? ‘cause at 3:01, the camera is passing the car at 200 mph…