This is the new Hennessey Venom F5, an ultra fast American supercar. It is the production version of the 2017 concept car with the same name. The Venom F5 is made by Hennessey Special Vehicles, itself a division of the famous tuning company Hennessey Performance Engineering (HPE). The Hennessey Venom F5 is the successor of the Hennessey Venom GT, which in 2013 officially became the fastest road car ever. The record has since been broken by other manufacturers many a times, so it is up to the Venom F5 to grab it back for Hennessey.
To do that it needs lots of horsepower. And since this is an American supercar it doesn’t bother with new-fashioned electric of hybrid drive trains. No, the Venon F5 is powered by a big and badass twin-turbocharged 6.55 liter V8. Output is 1817 hp and 1627 Nm. The chassis is build around a carbon fiber tub and the entire body work is made of carbon fiber too. This keeps curb weight down to just 1385 kilo. The power-to-weight ratio is an insane 1,298 hp/ton (1.34 hp/kg). Hennessy have the engine a fitting name: Fury. There is more naming coolness. F5 part of the car’s name refers to the Fujita scale of tornado intensity, where F5 is the highest category. Gearbox is a seven-speed semiautomatic, sending all power to the rear wheels.
The performance is earth crushing. Hennessey says the Venom F5 goes from 0 to 100 in 2.6 seconds, to 200 in 4.7, to 300 in 8.4, and to 400 km/h in 15.5 seconds. Top speed is claimed to be in excess of 500 kilometers per hour (> 311 mph). This may be just enough to brake the current record which is still in the hands of Swedish supercar maker Koenigsegg. To come to a stop after going 500 a supercar needs super brakes. The Venom F5 is fitted with ventilated carbon ceramic brakes. The size of the brake discs is the same front and rear: the brake discs have a diameter of 390 millimeter and a width of 34 millimeter. The large brake discs are mated to 6-piston brake calipers at the front and 4-piston brake calipers at the rear.
Hennessey is still fine-tuning their new supercar. The company says deliveries will start around mid-2021, priced at a steep $2.1 million. To make buyers pay so much money it needs to have the speed record first. The company has therefore scheduled their record run for early 2021, at the NASA shuttle landing center in Florida. May the force of speed be with the Fury!