With the hammer falling at US$ 800,000, Steven Tyler's
Hennessey Venom GT changed hands at the Barrett-Jackson auction, in Scottsdale,
Arizona.
Proceeds will benefit Tyler's Janie's Fund charity,
which helps abused girls in the United States. Besides the
high-performance machine, the winning bidder also received a guitar, signed by
every Aerosmith member, and a week's vacation at the star's mansion, in Maui.
This is one of only 12 ever produced, and it's capable of taking a big chunk of
the Bugatti Veyron, in terms of performance. Powering it is a 7.0-liter
twin-turbo V8 engine, which feeds 1,244 horsepower and 1,566 Nm) of torque to the wheels, through a 6-speed manual gearbox.
It needs just 2.7 seconds to reach 96 km/h,
and 5.6 seconds for the needle to show 161 km/h. Moreover, the Venom
GT nabbed a Guinness World Record for its 0 to 300 km/h acceleration
time of 13.63 seconds, and it can also cover a quarter mile in just 9.92
seconds, at 262 km/h. The hypercar recorded a top speed of 435 km/h at the Kennedy Space Center, in 2014.
