The Hennessey Venom F5 is an upcoming high-performance sports car manufactured by the newly founded American vehicle-manufacturing company Hennessey Special Vehicles which was established in 2017.Hennessey has contracted with Delta Motorsport of Silverstone, England to design, engineer, and manufacture the Venom F5. Delta Motorsport also produced all of the previous generation Venom GT cars for Hennessey at its facility in England.
The F5 name is a reference to the F5 tornado, the highest rating on the Fujita scale, attaining speeds as high as 261–318 mph.Initial reports had the Venom F5 powered by a completely bespoke and proprietary 7.4 L twin-turbocharged V8 engine;
later it was revealed that while being still in development, the engine is to have an even larger capacity of 8.0 liters but the final displacement of the engine was revealed to be 6.6 liters.The engine is confirmed to have a power output of 1,817 hp (1,355 kW; 1,842 PS) and 1,193 lb⋅ft (1,617 N⋅m) of torque.
The Venom F5 will have an LS-based iron block engine.Pennzoil and Shell are partners with Hennessey to help fund the 301 mph (484 km/h) record attempt promised by the manufacturer.The top speed is claimed to be 301 mph (484 km/h) through a V-MAX speed-tracking system.
Hennessey predicts the car will accelerate from 0–186 mph (0–300 km/h) in a time of under 10 seconds and from 0–249 mph (0–400 km/h) in a time of about 20 seconds.
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