Houston, Texas-based modifiers of obscene horsepower, Hennessey, fill their corporate coffers supercharging Corvette and Cadillac engines to the point of absurdity. But they are best known for their Bugatti-killing Venom hypercar. Hennessey and Bugatti, in fact, have gone back to the lab many times in the past 10 years to squeeze out a bit more power […]
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Aug
Texas modifiers aim to put the Bugatti away once & for all
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Dec
America's Great Muscle Car takes its top off for 2013
Last year we posted the Hennessey Venom GT when it was first unveiled, hailing it as the Resurrector of the Great American Muscle Car. Its engine based on a Corvette ZR1’s 6.2 liter V8, the LS9 is modified to various degrees (including the addition of twin turbochargers) to produce up to 1,200 horsepower. Bonkers. That’s […]
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Oct
John Hennessey unleashes his 2011 HPE700 LS9 Camaro Convertible
Last year John Hennessy — Lord Madness of the vehicular world, creator of the Hennessey V700 Cadillac CTS-V and Hennessey Venom GT — dropped a Corvette ZR1’s LS9 engine into a Camaro, and the HPE700 LS9 Camaro was born. This week the Hennessy Performance team decided to go one step further, and chopped the top […]
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Mar
Texas modifiers ramp up the Viper to 1200 hps
Hennessey Performance Engineering unveiled their new Hennessey Venom GT today, just to make sure Italy, Germany and Japan didn’t have an exclusive stranglehold on all things bad ass. Not fulfilled with simply supercharging Cadillacs, the Hennessey Venom GT is based on a Lotus Elise chassis and powered by General Motors’ mammoth 6.2 L LS9 supercharged […]
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Feb
Giving the world's most powerful V8 sedan even more power
Hennessey Performance has decided to improve upon the already magical Cadillac CTS-V with their new V700 upgrade package. If you recall, we drove the regular Cadillac CTS-V at the Gumball Rally last spring and it was worldwide bonkers, so adding more juice can only be a good thing. Adding a cold air induction system, new […]
