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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Dec
America's Great Muscle Car takes its top off for 2013
11
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 […]
