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Ride along in one of our recently-completed Corvettes — A 650 horsepower supercharged Grand Sport — as John Hennessey takes it for a spin around Lonestar Motorsports Park.
The HPE650 features a TVS2300 E-Force based supercharger system, stainless steel long tube headers with high flow catalytic converters and an upgraded fuel system to churn out 650 horses for ZR1-level acceleration.
John Hennessey’s personal Cadillac CTS-V Sport Wagon (the “Hammer Wagon” as it’s called) has been laying down impressive feats of speed when it’s not performing the average tasks of a daily driver / grocery getter.
First up was a 2.5 hour trip to south Texas for a weekend at the Texas Mile, where the wagon edged the CTS-V speed record up even higher to 189 mph (it had previously been set in John’s old V sedan).
The next test was to hit the dragstrip to test it’s 1/4 mile potential. On drag radials, the V still managed to put down a time well in the 10′s with a 10.69 @ 134.69 mph.
All in a day’s work for the Hammer Wagon.
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.
Watch as the latest Hennessey twin turbo Camaro takes to the dyno. This one-off build goes beyond the HPE1000′s twin turbo 427 cid LSX engine, sending added power to the ground through a bulletproof 4L80E automatic transmission.
On this week’s episode of Jay Leno’s Garage, Jay takes an up-close look at the new Hennessey HPE600 supercharged Camaro convertible. This featured ‘vert was the first to roll out of our Texas shop (and arguably the first supercharged 5th gen convertible to hit the streets) and is outfitted with larger 3-piece wheels, CarbonAero carbon fiber front splitter and side sills and a custom metallic blue hood stripes to go along with the 602 horsepower performance upgrade.
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