It’s no time-traveling DeLorean, but the Hennessey Venom GT sure is fast.
The American sports car unofficially claimed the title of world’s fastest production car, having reached a speed of 270.49 mph earlier this month at the Kennedy Space Center. The Hennessey Venom GT surpassed the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport’s previous record of 269.86 mph.
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NASA allowed the Texas-based manufacturer Hennessey Performance Engineering to use its 3.2-mile-long space-shuttle-landing runway for the speed test, ensuring that the sports car would have enough room to accelerate. The run was made over 2.4 miles, which left the car eight-tenths of a mile to come to a stop. Read more…
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