The long journey into production has come to an end, with Hennessey finally shipping out the first Venom F5s to customers. Hennessey has begun shipping new Venom F5s, with a second model set to go on display in Petersons museum soon. Hennessey announced via Hennesseys Twitter account that the first Venom F5 has been delivered. You may wonder why it is news, as the Venom F5 is a vehicle that we first saw about six years ago, but what you are seeing here is the final production version.
The first Venom F5 is finished in what looks like Mojave Gold, and there are only going to be 23 more cars after that, because Hennessey wants to keep their performance machines exclusive. With just 24 units planned to go into production, his amazing Venom F5 is going to be a hyper-rare performance machine. Look, Hennessey promises the Venom F5 can reach top speeds near 500km/h, given sufficient room. More importantly, through grapevine, we have heard Hennessey is prepping for an official run at a top speed record for the Venom F5, which may come at the beginning of next year.
Hennessey Performance is known for its Venom GT, a car built for breaking speed records. The Hennessey Venom GT is a heck of a performer, thanks to its motor. While its Venom GT is built around a Lotus platform, its amazing Venom F5 has a custom-built chassis and powertrain designed to offer mind-bending speeds. It is been three years since Hennessey Performance Engineering revealed the somewhat lacking in details prototype version of the Venom F5, but we must give the company some credit, as on Tuesday, the Texas-based tuner revealed what it calls a final production vehicle.
For Hennessey Performance Engineering, this is the culmination of an enormous amount of work in order to make founder John Hennesseys vision come true, and if the company has their way, this is going to be the fastest production car in the world, achieving an estimated top speed of more than 311 miles per hour. American tuner and automaker Hennessey Performance Engineering (HPE) has completed the first deliveries of their much-anticipated supercar, the Venom F5. If you are unfamiliar with the Venom F5, the latest Hennessey creation exists with one singular goal in mind: being the fastest street-legal vehicle on the planet. Records are made to be broken, and the Hennessey speed merchants are looking to do exactly that with Hennesseys recently, um, launched Venom F5.
Hennessey is looking to make runs on Speed Records with the new Venom F5. The Texas-based speed merchant has built 24 of these, each costing $2.1 million. Hennessey plans to build only 24 examples of the 1817-hp Venom F5, with prices starting at $2.1 million per. Hennessey(r) plans to build just 29 total Venom GTs, one-third of which have already been sold.
Hennessey announced Hennessey has been working on a GT successor called Venom F5, so far the company has not specified anything specific about the vehicle, except for the planned output of more than 1,400 horsepower and top speed of more than 290 miles per hour (470 km/h). The Hennessey Venom GT, powered by an L-S engine, is exactly such a car, it costs more than one million dollars, and is limited to only a few examples worldwide. The Hennessey Venom GT belongs in the S-class of sports cars, and it comes in two body styles; a 2-door coupe, and 2-door roadster, both powered by rear-mid engines and paired with rear-wheel drive.
The available gearbox is the CIMA 7-speed automatic, with single-clutch automatic gearbox and paddle-shifters, driving rear wheels, making the Hennessey Venom F5 rear-wheel drive. Hennessey Performance Engineering promises that Venom F5s Motec controllers work like a charm, helping put the power down to the rear wheels through five different driving modes. Like Bugatti, there is no electric power assist, and John Hennessey believes if you outfit the Hennessey Venom GT with these additions, as competitors do, that would detract from the driving experience.
Michelin plans to trial their Pilot Cup Sport 2 tires to make sure that they can cope with the speeds Hennessey Performance Engineering wants the Venom F5 to go. When Hennessey announced the production-version of the Venom F5 way back in December 2020, they announced that it would be taking on cars such as the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ and SSC Tuatara, and even better, that it would be hitting speeds over 300 miles per hour. It will make its first attempt to set independently-verified speed records on the same Nasa Shuttle Landing Facility track where it ran a Venom GT several years ago.
Hennesseys goal is 311 miles per hour, which he plans on topping with the independently-verified speed record attempt, using our 2-way race recorded by engineers from Racelogic. 1 These are numbers that are comparable with other hypercars such as SSC Tuatara, Bugatti Chiron, and Koenigsegg Regera, but his amazing Venom F5 is a beast when it comes to acceleration. That power, 277hp/litre, in the new Venom F5 yields a power-to-weight ratio of 1298hp/tonne — the highest among roadsters, as Hennessey points out. Additionally, Hennesseys Venom GT sets the unofficial record for acceleration from 0-200mph (0-322km/h) at 14.51 seconds, beating the time of Koenigseggs Agera Rs 17.68 seconds, making it the unofficial fastest-accelerating production car in the world.
Hennessey chief John Hennessey already knew somebody working for the State of Texas, where Hennessey is based, that might be able to secure the closure of a section of the freeway to perform Hennesseys first Hennessey Venom F5s first-ever high-speed lap.
