John Hennessey, horsepower-crazed Texan and head honcho of Hennessey Performance, is no stranger to high-powered Chevy products. So it makes sense that in his possession are the two current top dogs in the Chevrolet performance family tree: the 2017 ZL1 Camaro and 2017 Z06 Corvette. Both cars feature versions of the supercharged LT4 V8 engine, […] More »

Hennessey Performance turns 25 years old in 2016 and to celebrate the company’s silver anniversary, John and the crew took the Venom GT Spyder to the Naval Air Base in Lemoore, California to see if they could set a new record for the highest top speed without a fixed roof.

Hennessey Performance can take the C7 Corvette Stingray from epic-bash levels of output to I’ll-die-knowing-nobody’s-ever-partied-this-hard amounts of punch and twist.

With the Hennessey Venom GT now making 1,451 horsepower from its twin-turbocharged V8 motor, Hennessey is considering taking a new direction after it debuts the even more powerful Venom F5 coming very soon.

While we wait for Hennessey’s next version of the Venom GT, the Venom FT, Hennessey, just in time for SEMA has debuted a 1,451 horsepower iteration of the previous Venom GT.

You’re just sitting there, in your 650+ horsepower Z/28 Camaro. Testing, tuning, doing runs up until 7,000 rpm. Then all of a sudden, “Hello, this is Onstar, are you ok?”

Whether it’s 200, 400, or 650, horsepower is a relative concept. Most people look at a C7 Corvette Z06 convertible and think, Wow. What a beast! Hennessey doesn’t.