Its sights firmly set on the far side of 300mph, DickieMeaden gets an early drive in the sensational, 1817bhp HennesseyPerf Venom F5 -
Venom F5. Conceived to crack 300mph, this sequel to the ballistic Venom GT is Texas tuning mogul John Hennessey’s ultimate statement on extreme speed.
There’s something about targeting monster speeds that lends this unique breed of car a special kind of charisma. No matter how jaded you might think you are about cars that are ridiculously rapid and cost several million dollars, I guarantee you would be pulled towards the F5 as if by some sort of tractor beam. The shape is super-subtle, every surface smoothed and curve elongated to present as little resistance to the air as possible.
For John Hennessey there was clearly an element of unfinished business with the Venom GT. ‘It bothered me that despite beating Bugatti with our one-way run at 270mph back in 2014, the internet and people on social media said: “It’s just a modified Elise.” I probably should have ignored them, but knowing how much of that car was bespoke, I felt we deserved more credit. On the plus side it motivated me to decide we were ready to do our own car from the ground up.
If this sounds like a 300mph jigsaw puzzle then you’d be correct, but that’s the nature of so many modern hypercar projects. Bugatti uses Dallara for the Chiron chassis. Mercedes is relying upon Multimatic to deliver the Project One and Aston Martin famously outsourced the Valkyrie engine to Cosworth and the aero to Red Bull and Adrian Newey. In defining the F5 concept in-house and then collaborating closely with expert technical partners in order to create it, Hennessey is in very good company.
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