{"id":20842,"date":"2017-11-02T10:35:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T10:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yallacompare.com\/car-deals\/?p=20842"},"modified":"2017-11-02T10:35:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T10:35:27","slug":"the-new-hennessey-venom-f5-will-do-over-480-kmh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yallacompare.com\/car-deals\/the-new-hennessey-venom-f5-will-do-over-480-kmh\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Hennessey Venom F5 Will Do Over 480 km\/h"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a new car from Hennessey. It\u2019s named after an F5 tornado. That should give you an idea of what it\u2019s all about.<\/p>\n

Yep, it\u2019s another insanely fast supercar from the small, Texan car manufacturer. You\u2019ll have no doubt heard of Hennessey\u2019s last big-hitter, the Venom GT. That was based on a Lotus Exige, but it was tuned and modified to the point that it developed 1,224 bhp and could top 270 mph.<\/p>\n

That means, technically, it\u2019s the fastest production car in the world \u2013 but it doesn\u2019t hold the record because it only did the run one way. That means the Bugatti Veyron SuperSports, which had a Guinness judge oversee a there-and-back top speed run, is still the overall speed king. Oh, and the new Bugatti Chiron will do a top speed run early next year.<\/p>\n

Enter the Hennessey Venom F5.<\/p>\n

Designed as a successor to the Venom GT, it\u2019s been built from scratch, meaning Hennessey hasn\u2019t had to base its engineering around the shape of an old Lotus. The panels are carbon-fibre, the advanced aerodynamics are bespoke, and the chassis is a carbon tub.<\/p>\n

All of this means that it knocks the old Venom GT\u2019s drag coefficient of 0.44 Cd out of the park. The F5\u2019s drag coefficient is 0.33 Cd, meaning that sane levels of power could propel it towards a theoretical top speed of 300 mph (yep, 480 km\/h).<\/p>\n

Well, we say sane. But actually, the F5 is packed with 1,600 bhp \u2013 courtesy of a bespoke 7.4-litre, twin-turbo V8. And there\u2019s 1,300 lb ft of torque. This is fed through a seven-speed paddle-shift gearbox, with safety provided by a GPS-based traction control system.<\/p>\n

Want to know what that does for acceleration? Well, you won\u2019t get anything as banal as a 0-100 km\/h time from Hennessey when discussing the F5. Instead, we\u2019re told that this car will do 0-300 km\/h in under 10 seconds and 0-400 km\/h in under 20 seconds. In comparison, the Chiron will do 0-400 km\/h in 32.6 seconds (!).<\/p>\n

Scared? So are we.<\/p>\n

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