Hennessey Venom GT, One out of Five HPE’s Supercar this year making debut at Monterey Jet Center

Based on a Lotus Elise, Hennesey Venom GT, highly anticipated and exclusive supercar will making first debut at McCall’s Motorworks Revival event at the Monterey Jet Center.

Flash back, as Hennessey founder and president John Hennessey said about the Venom GT project said, quoted from motorauthority,

“I kept looking at the Lotus Elise and Exige. We kind of joked about what if we put that engine in the back of that car. We laughed about it for a while. [Then] we did some sketches and I looked at the drawings and I thought: this looks like something that we could do.”

Hennessey Performance (HPE) builds just five Venom GTs per year. That’s why -as I said- this is the highly anticipated and exclusive supercar. Venom GT will be available in both left and right hand drive configurations, price for the Venom GT will be $950,000 (1,200 HP), (Include upgrades and shipping). Price start from $725,000 (725 HP).

The Venom GT is powered by a supercharged 6.2 liter LS9 V8 engine that delivers a total of 725 bhp. Another option also available, the tuner will also be offering 1000 bhp and 1200 bhp twin turbo V8 engine variants. With a curb weight of 2,685 lbs, the 1200 HP Venom GT will hit a top speed of 275 mph.

As quoted from autoevolution, HPE president and founder, John Hennessey, explained,

“Twelve hundred horsepower combined with in a mid-engine chassis that weighs twelve hundred kilos (2,685 lbs) – no other road car and only a handful of race cars can match the power to weight ratio of the Venom GT,”

“It is a driver’s car, a supercar with a soul that will give you as much speed and performance as you dare ask of it”.

Coming in Yellow, The Venom GT will also be on display at the RM Auction at the Portolla Plaza hotel in downtown Monterey from Thursday, August 18 through Saturday, August 20.