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0Video: Hennessey completes first VelociRaptor SUV conversion [w/video] 1369143900
Start with a Ford F-150 SVT Raptor as your base vehicle for modification, and chances are high that you'll end up with something pretty cool. Now, have those modifications done by professional lunatics Hennessey Performance, make the project turning the pickup into an ultra-long SUV, and the ...
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Video: 650-hp Hennessey Jeep Grand Cherokee does 0-60 in 3.9 seconds [w/video] 1368536400
Hennessey Performance Engineering has created an HPE650 package for the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 fitted with the 6.4-litre Hemi engine. When it leaves the showroom floor it has 470 horsepower and gets from 0-60 miles per hour (0-96 km/h) in 4.8 seconds. When it leaves Hennessey's garage floor ...
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Followup: Guinness reconfirms Bugatti Veyron's world record top speed 1366055100
After taking last week to review the record category for World's Fastest Production Car, Guinness World Records has reconfirmed that the holder of this hotly contested superlative remains the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. The Veyron Super Sport set the official record back in 2010 with a ...
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Video: Hennessey Venom GT goes 265.7 mph (427.6 km/h) claims top-speed crown from Veyron 1365010200
It's official: The Hennessy Venom GT has crested 427.6 kmh (265.7 mph) over the course of two miles (3.2 km) during testing at the United States Naval Air Station in Lemoore, CA. Hennessey used two VBOX 3i data logging systems to document the run and even had VBOX officials on hand to certify the ...
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Video: Watch the Hennessey Ford GT make record 430.66 km/h run at Texas Mile 1364432400
We said they'd probably be out with an official video, we did not lie. The Hennessey-powered camouflage Ford GT sat at one end of the runway at the Texas Mile sitting still. At the other end of the runway it had broken its own speed record, the twin-turbo 5.7-litre V8 pushing the aerodynamic ...
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Video: Hennessey Ford GT sets 430.66 km/h record at Texas Mile [w/videos] 1364229900
The record-setting Hennessey-powered Ford GT we showed you at this time last year headed back to the Texas Mile and managed to bring home yet another record. As you may recollect, last year saw Mark Heidraker's machine sprint to a record 414.7 km/h (257.7 mph) thanks to propulsion from its ...
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Official: C7 Corvette turbo with 1,000 horsepower promised from Hennessey 1361836860
If you can't wait for the next-generation Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, Hennessey says they will have you covered. The Texas-based company has announced it will offer a spate of upgrades for the 2014 Corvette ranging from a range of bolt-on options all the way up to a 1,000-horsepower, twin-turbo ...
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Video: Watch the Venom GT go from 0 to 370 km/h in under 20 seconds! 1354667400
The crew at Hennessey has finally gotten around to showing the world just how quick the Venom GT really is by pulling off a 0-370 km/h sprint on runway. The best run took a scant 19.96 seconds to stick the speedometer at 370 km/h (228 mph). That's the kind of speed that will peal your eyelids ...
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Official: Hennessey preparing updated Venom GT2 with 1,500 HP 1353959640
Hennessey Performance – that purveyor of things silly-powerful – has announced a sequel to its bonkers Lotus-based Venom GT, the appropriately sequential Venom GT2. While the performance company isn't quite ready to release full technical details about the new car, it has supplied us ...
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Featured: Steven Tyler of Aerosmith shows off his 1,244 hp Venom at SEMA 2012 1352417400
At SEMA we sometimes get to see things that we can only dream about. We also see cars that we wish we would have never seen. But here at Autoblog Canada, we care about the cars that are worth caring about. A custom Prius is not something we want to look at when go to the world's largest ...
