Wednesday 23 January 2013

If You Want To Pop Down To The Shops In A Hurry,

this is the one for you,


and if you do not own one this is all you will see of it as it rockets away from you, having just set the the record for the world's fastest accelerating motorcar, after hitting 186mph in just 13.63 seconds, the Hennessey Venom GT is a Texan-built supercar powered by a 7-litre V8 engine developing 1,244bhp, on Sunday it showed the world just how quick it was when Hennessey took it to a runway in Houston, USA, to attempt a new world record for acceleration,



Guinness World Records were there to verify the time - with Hennessey taking the record from the similarly outrageous Koenigsegg Agera which did 0-186mph in 14.53 seconds, the supercar also managed 0-200mph in 14.51 seconds - a staggering 7.7 seconds quicker than the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, flat-out the Venom GT, which was piloted by test driver John Kiewicz, did 0-100mph in 5.88 seconds and after one-mile had reached 205mph, John Hennessey, the boss of Hennessey Performance, today revealed he was going after the record for top speed, which is currently held by the 268mph Veyron Super Sport,


so how much does it cost to be the quickest to the shops? just £910,000 will see you there first, also with just 29 Venom GTs with each model taking six months to build you are not likely to meet another one in Tesco's car park!

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