{"id":13858,"date":"2010-03-29T13:13:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T12:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13858"},"modified":"2023-01-24T14:21:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T14:21:29","slug":"hennessey-venom-gt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/hennessey-venom-gt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutant Exige from Silverstone Via Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Venom_GT_2_Flip.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13867\" title=\"Venom_GT_2_Flip\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Venom_GT_2_Flip.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Venom_GT_2_Flip.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Venom_GT_2_Flip-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Venom_GT_2_Flip-278x131.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Historically the fastest and sexiest piece of Anglo-American vehicular collaboration may have been the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P-51_Mustang\">Mustang P51<\/a> fighter-bomber. But now, there&#8217;s a demonic transatlantic pretender to the P51&#8217;s throne.<\/p>\n<p>Meet the Hennessey Venom GT. The engine&#8217;s from the Lone Star state and the Lotus Exige-based chassis is pieced together, and the car assembled (with trick running gear, traction control and a fusillade of Brembo pots) in our very own Silverstone.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/jalopnik.com\/\">Jalopnik<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topgear.co.uk\/\">TG<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pistonheads.com\">PH<\/a> its power-to-weight ratio is 0.302, bettering the figures of 0.254 that you get with a Bugatti Veyron.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the \u00a3600K price tag seems a little excessive for a tuned Lotus, only 10 will be made a year. And the feeling of 715bhp in a car that weighs just over a metric tonne is going to be something to experience.<\/p>\n<p>Is it us, though, or are all hypercars starting to look the same?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The advent of the Venom GT is officially announced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1779,110],"tags":[1001,1286,955,81],"class_list":["post-13858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-blog","tag-american","tag-cars","tag-road","tag-supercars","manufacturers-hennessey"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mutant Exige from Silverstone Via Texas | Influx<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What do you get if you pack a 1200 hp engine into a Elise chassis? 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