Posts Tagged ‘hennessey’
The Hennessey Venom GT Spyder
The Texas based tuning shop turned auto manufacturer that has built the insane 1,200-hp super car called the Venom GT is now chopping the roof off. Hennessey, this week, showed photos of the new Spyder edition of the Hennessey Venom GT. This car has the same 1,200-hp twin-turbo V8, but now has millions of miles of headroom. read_more»
Jesse James Wrecks Supercar in Austin
A few days ago we saw the headline of a Ford GT crashed into the backyard of a residence in in Austin. Jalopnik has done some digging and has all but confirmed that this Ford GT is Jesse James’ 1000 hp Hennessey GT. They have recently got a quote from the Hennessey shop saying, “We’ve built a couple of vehicle read_more»
America showing out at Goodwood:
The Goodwood festival of speed is an annual celebration of cars and speed that attracts gearheads from around the world. Because of its roots in Europe, it’s not often that American cars make big news. But this year we are! Not just an American company, but a Texas company, Hennessey. That’s right! The Hennessy Venom GT will be at the read_more»
Hennessey V700 CTS Coupe
If you think the CTS-V is an amazing car, as most of us at txGarage do, then Cadillac knows you'll love their new CTS-V Coupe. The boys at Hennessey didn't waist anytime scooping one up to equip it with one of their V packages. Now we are talking about a 700hp Cadillac coupe! read_more»
the VelociRaptor 600 w/video
This week our friends at Hennessey Performance released a new video of their VelociRaptor 600. As you should already know Hennessey has been working on this monster of a truck since the Raptor hit the market. It now boasts 605 horsepower and 622 lb-ft of torque through a 6.2 liter Twin Turbo power plant. read_more»
Hennessey MaxBoost 435 w/video
Last week Toby reviewed for us the 2010 Lincoln MKS with the EcoBoost and AWD, and we all agree that we loved this car. This week Hennessey Performance, out of Houston, has reviled their own incarnation of the 2010 MKS EcoBoost calling it their MaxBoost 435. What Hennessey has done here is tinker with the engine management software, added their read_more»
New from Hennessey: VelociRaptor 500
The Boys at Hennessey must be getting bored with 1,000 horsepower monster cars because today they announced their new monster truck, the VelociRaptor 500. That's right, Hennessey Performance has taken a Ford F150 Raptor and bolted a Whipple supercharger on the already stout 5.4 liter V8. This fearse Raptor now produces 201 HP and 520 lbs-ft of torque at 9.1 read_more»
Texas Tuner Torches Cover of Corvette Magazine
The March 2010 issue of Corvette Magazine will feature the Torch Red Hennessey ZR700, quoting “The ZR700 idles and drives like a standard ZR1 at sane speeds, but when I finally got the chance to roll into the throttle hard, the Corvette really came alive.” read_more»
Update: Hennessey’s LS9 Camaro SS w/Video
Today we got to see new video of the overly insane project Hennessey has been working on. The first dyno pull to make it to YouTube with speaker busting exhaust notes and all. If you’ll take a second to remember why this project is so… well awesome, here you have a 2010 Camaro with a modified LS9 V8 engine named the read_more»
Hennessey Venom GT
Our buddies at Hennessy announced a few years ago that they would be building a supercar of their own. Going from a tuning shop to producing your own supercar doesn’t happen overnight and now almost two years after their announcement they are telling us the car will be debuting at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2010. read_more»
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