Hennessy

Just when you thought the Chevrolet Silverado Goliath 6x6 couldn’t get any crazier, US tuning firm Hennessey has fitted a supercharger to boost the V8 to a mind-boggling 800 horsepower. The custom-built, road-legal six-wheel-drive monster truck costs in excess of $USD400,000 in North America, equivalent to about $AUD600,000 based on today’s exchange rates. Customers start with the ‘regular’ $USD375,000 version and then add a $USD30,000 supercharger kit and some other toys.

People often say “don’t forget where you came from”. Although we’re focused on every new car, every last detail here at CarAdvice, we have an extensive back-catalogue of news stories, lifestyle yarns and reviews. Here’s a look at what happened on the week of April 10 in years past. Two years ago this week the Hennessey Venom GT Spyder sped all the way to 427.4km/h, surpassing the previous record set by the Bugatti Veyron Sport Vitesse by nearly 20km/h.

Hennessey Performance has unveiled the interior for its upcoming Venom F5 in a set of images on Facebook. Launched at SEMA, the Venom F5 promises some truly staggering performance specs. The twin-turbo V8 engine makes 1193kW of power, and the car weighs just 1338kg. As you might imagine, that makes for some impressive acceleration figures.

The Hennessy Venom GT2, set to debut in late 2014, will be worked by Hennessy Performance to produce a staggering 1119kW of power. Like the standard 895kW Venom GT from the Texas-based performance car company, the new Hennessy Venom GT2 will get the same Chevrolet-sourced 7.0-litre V8 with twin turbochargers and a host of other performance modifications to enable the GT2 version to best the GT’s performance credentials of 0-100km/h in 2.5 seconds and a top speed of 423km/h.