Hennessey Venom GT v1.0

The Hennessey Venom GT is a high performance sports car manufactured by Texas-based Hennessey Performance Engineering. The Venom GT is based on the Lotus Elise/Exige.

On January 21, 2013, the Venom GT set a Guinness World Record for the fastest road legal car from 0–186 mph (0–300 km/h) with an average acceleration time of 13.63 seconds. In addition, the car set an unofficial record for 0–200 mph (0–322 km/h) acceleration at 14.51 seconds, beating the Koenigsegg Agera R‘s time of 17.68 seconds, making it the unofficial fastest accelerating road legal car in the world.

On April 3, 2013, the Hennessey Venom GT crested 265.7 mph (427.6 km/h) over the course of 2 miles (3.2 km) during testing at United States Naval Air Station Lemoore in Lemoore, California. Hennessey used two VBOX 3i data logging systems to document the run and had VBOX officials on hand to certify the numbers.

On February 14, 2014, on the Kennedy Space Center’s 3.22-mile (5.2 km) shuttle landing strip in Florida, the Hennessey team recorded a top speed of 270.49 mph (435.31 km/h) in an extremely limited distance of 2.3 miles (3.7 km) with the Director of Miller Motorsport Park, Brian Smith driving the car. As the run was in a single direction, and only 13 cars have been sold to date (to qualify for Guinness World Records Hennessey must build 30), it does not qualify as the world’s fastest production car in the Guinness Book of Records. The driver, Brian Smith, said that it could go 5–10 mph (10–15 km/h) faster than the recorded 270.49 mph if they had more distance to run on.

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