Hennessey Special Vehicles wants to be up there with
the big boys, such as the Bugatti Chiron and Koenigsegg Regera, and they might
have the perfect weapon to do get your attention: the Venom F5.
Revealed at SEMA last year, the hypercar is now
coming at the Geneva Motor Show, for its European premiere. It will be on
display at the Swiss city from March 6 until the end of the event on March 18.
So, what is so special about the Hennessey Venom F5,
you ask? That would be its ability to break the 483 km/h barrier.
According to John Hennessey, this is “no question of if”, “but a question of
when”.
Hennessey Special Vehicles,
together with their partners at Shell and Pennzoil, made sure that it has the
lowest possible drag, and that the chassis and panels can cope with the insane
speed. Next, they strapped a new twin-turbo V8 engine to it, which delivers a
whopping 1,600 horsepower, and after a lot of fine tuning, they finally
completed it.
Officially, the Hennessey Venom F5 takes less than
10 seconds to reach 300 km/hfrom a standstill, and under 30 seconds
before it breaks the 400 km/h barrier. The claimed top speed is 484 km/h.
As expected with what could become the world’s
fastest production car, Hennessey will only make 24 units, and 10 of them have
been already spoken for, despite costing in excess of US$ 1.6 million (€ 1.3 million).
