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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - Hennessey Venom GT

Written by wgnelson002

      So, I was flipping through my latest issue of Robb Report, the magazine for the rich (or for guys like me who just enjoy gazing at the latest watches and stuff), flipping through page after page of articles about commercial space flight, yachts, watches, pens, motorcycles, and more, until at the very end I saw an ad for a Hennessey Venom GT:

      I'd seen it before on various websites, and I always thought, "Bah, it's just a Lotus Exige S with a body kit," but in this ad, I saw the specifications:

0-60 mph: 2.4 seconds ("Faster acceleration than the Bugatti Veyron and the SSC Ultimate Aero TT!")

Top speed: 260 mph ("Wait..... What?! The SSC Ultimate Aero TT only makes 257, and it's the fastest production car in the world!")

      So, I went to the website, and I realized how this could be faster than a Bugatti Veyron (How it could be faster than an SSC still baffles me). The Bugatti Veyron has 1,001 hp and weighs 4,486 pounds, while the Hennessey Venom GT has the same amount of horsepower, thanks to it's 8.5 litre Viper V10 with the Hennessey Venom 1000 Twin Turbo System it has, but only weighs under 2,700 pounds. Thus, you have less weight for the engine to have to move, resulting in faster acceleration and a higher top speed.

      So far it hasn't left the drawing board, (which makes me wonder why there'd be an ad for it, then again, there was an ad for the Aston Martin Raptide just a few pages before that) but Hennessey wants to get two prototypes off of the assembly line sometime later this year, and if demand is high enough (It is over here, Hennessey!!! Make it for us!!!), then Hennessey will produce the Venom GT in limited numbers.

      For more about the Venom GT, you can read an article about it on their website. Here's a link to the article:

www.hennesseyperformance.com/hennesseyperformance/Whats_New.php?cart=NIcvGOYA&id=99

-Wes

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