Hennessey Venom GT overtakes Bugatti Veyron as the World’s Fastest Production Car
Hennessey Venom GT Apple Fastest CarBugatti Veyron Super Sport loses its appellation of actuality the “world’s fastest assembly car” to Hennessey Venom GT. This antagonism of unrealistic acceleration and achievement has a new champ as of 9 February 2013, back Hennessey Achievement proudly appear the Venom GT’s acceleration almanac as 265.7 mph assault the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport by a slight margin.
Hennessey Achievement CEO, John Hennessey, declared that as absorbing as the achievement was, the 2.9 mile aerodrome they were testing on was “far too abbreviate for the Venom GT to adeptness its accurate top speed.” The testing was captivated at the United Naval Air Station Lemoore in California and recorded by VBOX officials.
Officially tagged as the Venom GT, the car has brought out a brace of arguable topics. The lotus Chassis captivation that absurd power. Hennessey confirms this as he says, “The Venom GT is created from a abject Lotus Elise /Exige, utilizing apparatus including but not bound to the roof, doors, ancillary glass, windscreen, dash, cockpit, floorpan, HVAC system, wiper and arch lamps.”
So is the car quintessentially a adapted Lotus abounding of American V8 adeptness and accompanying turbochargers?
Confusion to bodies is the actuality of Veyron Super Sport’s adeptness to accomplish 267.8 mph during its analysis runs. Though it was able to do so, Bugatti chose to absolute its absolute assembly cartage to alone 258 mph. In rebuttal, John Hennessey, stated, “As absorbing as the Venom GT’s 265.7 mph achievement was, the 2.9 mile aerodrome they were testing on was “far too abbreviate for the Venom GT to adeptness its accurate top speed.”
Those absorbed in the Venom GT a astonishing allotment of adeptness that can advance out 1.244 application and is able to go from 0-60 mph in aloof 3.05 abnormal and 0-100 mph in aloof 5.88 seconds. It had alike set a new Guinness Apple Almanac by actuality able to accomplish 0-300 km/h in 13.63 seconds, authoritative it the quickest accelerating assembly agent in the world.
This absorbing allotment of art carries a amount tag of $1.2 million. Hennessey is activity to aftermath aloof 29 of these 2,743-pound cartage with the basal configuration. Hennessey claims that a division of the assembly is already sold!
However the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport still holds the appellation of top acceleration almanac of 267.8 mph.
