Hennessey Venom GT

Well, the new Hennessey Venom GT is the fastest production car... in the world.

It has 1244 bhp. Take a look.
Here you can see the GT setting the world record time for 0-300 km/h at 13.18 seconds.



As of now, the Hennessey Venom GT is the fastest car that you can buy, with a top speed of 267.8 mph. It beats the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, which held the previous world record at 265.7 mph. The interesting thing is that the real top speed of the production Veyron is only 258. Bugatti limits the top speed of all their hypercars. 

Hennessey made sure that they pointed this out before beating the previous record anyway.

Until recently, Bugatti held the claim to "Fastest Production Car", but the reality is that the Veyrons that are available to the public - defined as a production car - only go 258 mph. So the Veyron that broke all of the previous production car speed records wasn't actually a production car at all.

You can actually buy a Hennessey Venom GT identical to the one used above, which goes almost 10 mph faster than the Veyron you'll find at your local Bugatti dealer.

I have only one real problem with Hennessey though, and that is that they don't make their own cars. The Venom GT is just a Lotus with tweaked and tuned performance bits. Hennessey does this with plenty of other cars too. They'll take things like a Camaro, a Mustang, or an M3, and just make it insane. It's really cool, but they aren't a "car-maker". Hennessey, takes perfectly good cakes and puts the icing on. Still, you have to wonder what kind of cake they could make on their own. That's only a minor qualm though. I like Hennessey's icing.

Bugatti, alternatively, is backed by Volkswagen, and they make their cars from the beginning. The Veyron is not a tuned up Lotus.

You see what I'm saying here. It just feels better when you have a car that was born to be a hypercar. It was purpose built to be crazy fast. It was not born as an average Lotus Exige, that underwent a procedure later in life and received the ability to perform. 

Comparing the Veyron to the Venom GT is like comparing Superman to Spiderman. The Veyron was born with superpowers on another planet. The Venom GT was a nerdy, journalist that was bitten by a spider, and later received superpowers.


I have to say I always preferred Spiderman though. He was kind of the underdog. You have to like the Hennessey Venom GT for the same reason.

Well done on the new records Hennessey.







This whole argument about "fastest production car" will probably start back up in September, when Bugatti reveals the new 1600 hp Veyron. If Bugatti doesn't limit the top speed to the new one, Superman will be bulletproof.