$1.25M Venom GT ‘World’s Fastest Edition’ is so quick you’ve missed your chance [w/video]
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Now that the Venom GT has earned a Guinness World Record as the quickest car to reach 300 kilometers per hour (186 miles per hour) to go along with its recorded top speed of 270.49 miles per hour (recorded last month at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center), Hennessey thinks its time for a celebration. To commemorate the honors, it’s building a new “World’s Fastest Edition” of the Venom GT, limited to just three units priced at an eye-watering $1.25 million each. Want one? Sorry, it’s too late. All of them have already been sold to previous Hennessey customers. The first one will be delivered this summer.
Modifications are simple and understated, with the addition of a red, white and blue stripe going down the center of the all-white body – Hennessey sees this as America’s supercar and wants to show it. There are no mechanical changes – not that it needed any. It still packs the same 7.0-liter, twin-turbo V8 making 1,244 horsepower that propelled it early last year to 300 kmh in 13.63 seconds.
Autoblog spoke to company founder John Hennessey about the car and the recent top-speed attempt, and he had a lot to say. “We had intended to run in both directions,” he said. However, a bad crosswind the first day prevented it. On the second day, NASA was testing its new Morpheus Mars lander at one end of the runway. The car was allowed to make its run going away, but the spacemen nixed the attempt approaching it.”
In any case, he knew the car wasn’t going to garner a second Guinness record. The organization has stipulated a minimum of a 30-car production run to qualify. Hennessey announced it would build 29 Venom GTs when it debuted the car, and that’s not changing. It has sold nearly 20 of them so far and expects for them to sell out sometime next year.
What’s next for one of the world’s fastest cars? Hennessey says the company would like to attempt some track records next year, with the Nürburgring certainly standing as a top choice. If that’s not possible, the Circuit of the Americas or Laguna Seca are other possibilities. “There’s always something next,” said Hennessey. For now, the business is going to celebrate building one of the world’s fastest cars. Scroll down to read the full press release and to take another look at a video showing the Venom GT’s top-speed run.
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