Hennessey has just announced that it will unveil the Venom GT on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at the McCall’s Motorworks Revival, which held each year at the Monterey Jet Center. The Hennessey Venom GT was first officially debuted in Europe at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the U.K., and this upcoming event will be the car’s first official debut in the U.S.
If you haven’t been followed the Hennessey Venom GT, don’t worry, we got you covered. The Hennessey Venom GT is a mid-engine car. It gets its chassis from the Lotus Elise, which gives the car a very light curb weight at about 2,685 pounds.
Power comes from a 6.2-liter LS9 V8 engine (found on Corvette ZR-1) that is equipped with a pair of turbos. The twin-turbo V8 engine at 16 psi of boost produces about 1,200 horsepower at 6,500 rpm and 1,155 lb-ft of torque at 4,200 rpm. The engine is mated to the same six-speed Ricardo transmission found in the Ford GT. With a very light curb weight and an astronomical horsepower, the Hennessey Venom GT is able to accelerate from 0-60 mph in just 2.5 seconds and with a top speed of 275 mph. In addition, it can accomplish a quarter-mile in 9.9 seconds at 162 mph.
The Hennessey Venom GT is not cheap, it costs $950,000, plus optional upgrades and shipping. If you are still yearning for more of the Hennessey Venom GT supercar in its glorious debut, watch the videos below to see it in action.
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Hennessey Venom GT to Make Monterey Debut at McCall’s Motorworks Revival
August 15, 2011
MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA – Hennessey Performance (HPE) will unveil the company’s
1,200 HP, ultra-lightweight Venom GT supercar on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at
the McCall’s Motorworks Revival. Held each year at the Monterey Jet Center, Gordon
McCall’s party kicks-off the Monterey / Pebble Beach weekend.Fresh from its European debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the Hennessey
Venom GT will be making its first appearance at Monterey. “We are very excited to
have the opportunity to show the Venom GT to our friends and fellow enthusiasts at
what has become one of the biggest and best car enthusiast events in the world,”
says CEO, Don Goldman. “Gordon McCall’s Motorworks Revival combines serious car
enthusiasts, world-class cars and aircraft, all in one fantastic party.”The bright “bug-killer” yellow Venom GT will also be on display at the RM Auction at
the Portolla Plaza hotel in downtown Monterey from Thursday, August 18 through
Saturday, August 20.Hennessey builds just five Venom GTs per year, making it one of the most
exclusive supercars currently built. Available in both left-hand and right-hand drive
configurations, the Venom GT costs $950,000 US Dollars, plus optional upgrades
and shipping. Each vehicle is hand-built over a period of six months by a small team
of craftsmen at the company’s facilities in Sealy, Texas, Lake Forest, California and
Silverstone, England.“Twelve hundred horsepower combined with in a mid-engine chassis that weighs
twelve hundred kilos (2,685 lbs) – no other road car and only a handful of race cars
can match the power to weight ratio of the Venom GT,” added HPE president and
founder, John Hennessey. “It is a driver’s car, a supercar with a soul that will give
you as much speed and performance as you dare ask of it”.For more information please visit www.VenomGT.com
About Hennessey Performance
Hennessey Performance (HPE) has been making fast cars go faster since 1991. It
operates a 30,000 square foot workshop and showroom facility situated on 143
acres near Sealy, Texas (about 45 minutes west of Houston). The company also
operates a showroom and installation facility located in Lake Forest, California. HPE
offers a wide variety of dyno proven, track tested parts and upgrades for a variety
of modern performance vehicles. Hennessey Performance is also the only tuner in
North America that operates its own test track – Lonestar Motorsports Park.
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