Every once and a while in the automotive world, somethinghappens that takes our breath away. No I am not talking about making leapsforward in in-dash navigation or your car stereo, no we are talkin about speed.Not just speed but more speed than anyone else on the plant…even Bugatti!Hennessey a company known mainly for supercharging cars and trucks for extremeperformance has now made their own car. When they announced their own car mostof us assumed that they would be basing it off some American car of some type.The company surprised us all when the released pics of their 1000 HP beast butnone of us expected it to be street legal.
Recently Hennessey showed off the GT at Jay Leno’s garage,this is their 6th car that they brought and amazingly it is streetlegal. Street legal means that the car meets safety standards and has all theequipment required by the US government. This is an amazing feat because acompany like Bugatti is backed by VW and they are the largest automotive entityon the planet. Hennessey is a small company that does not have the resources…guessthey did some serious begging with investors.
Now on to the speed and power that the Venom GT creates…0-60 yup that is 2.5 seconds, for example a Corvette ZR1 takes 3.4 seconds tomake the same trip. Now that is fast but where this car really makes itselfstand out is the 0 – 200. That time would be 15.3 seconds and that is 9 secondsfaster than the Veyron which is the fastest car in the world. The goal if the venomis to outrun the Veyron bringing the title of the world’s fastest productioncar to the US. Now I don’t know aboutyou but I really want to see these 2 monsters go head to head in an all-outdrag race to 280 MPH. Oh and I also want to own one for myself hey it might notbe good parking it on the street but sometimes you just gotta live your dreams…right?
