February 5, 2012

John Heinricy Drives the Hennessey V700 CTS-V During HPE Open House

Over the weekend we opened our doors in celebration of 20 years making fast cars go faster. The open house event featured all types of Hennessey vehicles — including the Venom GT — on display. But one of the main attractions wasn’t simply looking at them, parked with hoods opened. No, what had many attendees lining up was the opportunity to jump in the passenger seat for a blistering ride around Lonestar Motorsports Park’s winding return roads in a 700 horsepower V700 CTS-V piloted by none other than John Heinricy (the man behind the V’s record-setting Nurburgring run and Hennessey consulting engineer).

If you’re going to be driven in a CTS-V the way it was intended, this is the man you want behind the wheel.

Gallery: Hennessey Southern California Open House

Over the weekend Hennessey Performance held our open house event at our new Southern California location. The turnout was amazing and a big thanks goes out to everyone who dropped by.

Check out the gallery below for pictures from the event…

Open House July 30th at the New Hennessey Southern California Facility in Lake Forest

Since 2009, we’ve operated a second location in Southern California in addition to our Texas-based headquarters. And now we’re celebrating the move to our new, larger facility with an open house event at the end of this month.

Hennessey Southern California Open House
Saturday, July 30th
10:00 am to 2:00 pm
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Our Southern California location in Orange County was established to give Hennessey Performance the ability to provide sales, service and performance upgrades for clients in this car-centric region of the world.

With this new location, HPE’s capabilities have increased to provide a greater range of upgrade services. The 10,000 square foot facility features seven service bays, a welding and fabrication shop and an all-new Dynojet installation is underway. We’re just up the road from our previous facility on Bake Parkway, and we’re still only a few miles from where the famous Cars and Coffee™ Irvine gatherings are held.

If you’re in the area and can drop by, we welcome you to join us in celebrating and hope to see you there!



See the HPE650 Camaro Convertible at Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach this Weekend

Starting today and going through Saturday (April 7 – 9), Hennessey Performance will be displaying one of our latest supercharged 2011 Camaro convertibles at the Barrett-Jackson auto auction in Palm Beach, Florida.

Our display Camaro is a Summit White convertible with our popular and powerful HPE650 supercharged upgrade producing 655 horsepower. It’s also decked with our exclusive carbon fiber body kit, lightweight forged wheels and orange hood stripe kit.

Come and get a close-up look at one of the summer’s hottest new cars and meet our team while checking out all the excitement Barrett-Jackson brings when it comes to town.

For more information on the event, click here for all the details from Barrett-Jackson.

Pictures: 2011 Indy 500 Camaro Convertible Pace Car at Barrett-Jackson

2011 Camaro Convertible Indy 500 Pace Car

When the Indianapolis 500 is run this May, it’ll once again have its pace set by a white convertible Camaro SS, just as it had in 1969. The 2011 Summit White SS mimics the first gen classic with an orange stripe and interior, with a familiar yet modern pace car graphic running along its door.

Chevrolet unveiled the car last night at the Barrett-Jackson auto auction in Scottsdale, and we’ve got a few pics of the cars side by side and on display. With a white heritage grill and trim accents that carry over the white / orange stripe scheme to the interior, it’s a clean example of special edition pace car that doesn’t get carried away with wild colors, graphics and other eye-jarring acts of flash as in the past. Clean and simple. We like it.

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2011 Camaro Convertible Indy 500 Pace Car