Hennessey has revealed more details about its new Venom F5 hypercar, namely regarding its bonkers powertrain. Making its public debut at 'The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering' at Monterey Car Week in California, the Venom F5 features a 7...
The Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk was hardly what you'd call meek, but tuning specialist Hennessey has revealed its version of the Hellcat-powered SUV, complete with a massive 1000 horsepower (745kW)...
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...
Hennessey Performance has picked up the gauntlet laid down by the Dodge Demon, outrunning the factory-fresh Fiat Chrysler dragster in a Camaro called 'The Exorcist'. Based on a Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, The Exorcist has been boosted to 756kW and 1197Nm. The results are predictably impressive...
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 new Hennessey Venom F5 hypercar has been unveiled at SEMA 2017 in Las Vegas. John Hennessey, company founder, expects the Venom F5 "to be the first road car capable of achieving more than 300mph (482km/h)"...
Hennessey Performance has provided a further peek at the upcoming Venom F5, ahead of its debut at SEMA next week. Named after the most lethal category of tornado, the Venom F5 has been set the task of outdoing the bonkers Venom GT, which has a verified 435 km/h top speed. The first official renderings of the F5 surfaced in 2014, backed by some seriously bold claims about performance...
The Hennessey Venom F5 is set to be officially unveiled at the 2017 SEMA show in Las Vegas on November 1. Succeeding the manic 1082kW Venom GT - which has a verified top speed of 435km/h - the Venom F5 is named after the most lethal category of tornado, and is set to chase a new speed record...
The Hennessey VelociRaptor is a new 6x6 off-roading pickup truck that's based on the Ford F-150 Raptor. The VelociRaptor is available to order now and is priced from US$295,000 ($387,000). Although that price includes the base vehicle, it's a steep step up from the four-door Ford F-150 Raptor SuperCrew that begins at US$52,505 ($68,800)...
An updated Hennessey Venom GT with even more power will be unveiled at the 2015 SEMA show, which kicks off tomorrow in Las Vegas. Hennessey has upgraded the Venom GT's 7.0-litre twin-turbo V8 to accept E85 Flexfuel and in the process increased boost pressure from 19psi to 26psi. These improvements have increased the car's already impressive output from 928kW to 1082kW, a jump of 154kW...
The new Hennessey Venom F5 has set its sights on becoming the world’s fastest production car, targeting a Bugatti-beating top speed of 467km/h (290mph). The Texas-based supercar specialist has released these three renderings of its successor to the ballistic Venom GT, which itself reached 435km/h in February in an unofficial run...
American sports car tuner Hennessey Performance has released a monstrous version of the Holden Commodore-based Chevrolet SS with more power than the original Bugatti Veyron. The Hennessey HPE1000 trades the Australian-made Chevrolet SS’s regular 310kW 6.2-litre LS3 V8 for a ballistic 746kW (1000hp) twin-turbocharged 7...
The Hennessey Venom GT is the world's fastest production car available for public purchase, after registering a top speed over 427km/h. The US-built Lotus Elise/Exige-based Hennessey Venom GT, powered by a twin-turbocharged General Motors-sourced 7.0-litre V8, ticked over 427.6km/h (265.7mph) down a two-mile (3...
The Hennessey Venom GT has set a new world record to become the quickest street-legal production car ever to make the dash from 0-300km/h. With Guinness World Records officials and VBox timing specialists on hand, the Venom GT set an official time of 13.63 seconds for the stratospheric sprint – the average of two runs completed in opposite directions along the runway at Ellington Airport in Texas (the first 13...
