@evo Magazine –
Few names are as synonymous with speed as that of Texas-based tuning mogul John Hennessey. Obsessed with making fast cars go faster since the 1990s, Hennessey’s eponymous business, Hennessey Performance, has grown from humble beginnings modifying his own Mitsubishi 3000GT to become one of the world’s best-known tuning companies and a manufacturer in its own right.
Not content with boosting a variety of contemporary muscle cars (and pickups!) to 1000 bhp and beyond, Hennessey has earned its place as a hypercar maker. First with the Venom GT – a 1244 bhp, 1244 kg, 270mph-plus monster loosely based upon the Lotus Exige – and more recently with the in-house-designed, all-carbon-fiber, 1800 bhp and projected 300mph-plus Venom F5.