When Hennessey made the Venom GT, they had a singular goal in mind. They were going to create the fastest car ever made. On Valentine’s day 2014, they brought their car out to secret runway in a classified facility, where the like minded individuals brought their car up to a staggering 270.49 miles per hour before testing out their Brembo carbon ceramic brakes. Unofficially, the Hennessey Venom GT broke the production car speed record that day, however Guinness requires more loops to leap beyond being the fastest.
To hold the title of fastest production car Guinness demands that more guidelines be followed. The car in question must have; at minimum; 30 models manufactured. The record keeper also requires the automaker to run the same straight forwards and backwards before using the average as the official record. Unfortunately, Hennessey will only ever assemble 29 Venom GTs, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) did …show more content…
Though, if the company could be bothered, they could just build one more car and test it somewhere with a longer straight (the landing strip was relatively miniscule at a modest 3.2 miles), it would hold an uncontested record at a vaster velocity. Hennessey’s in-dash video of the feat shows that the car was still accelerating when it reached 270, it just ran out of runway.
Despite the asterisk near the title, denoting the unofficial status of fastest production car, the Hennessey Venom GT does hold the actual Guinness record for acceleration. The supercar made the run from 0-186 mph (300 kilometers per hour) in astounding (sounding) 13.63 seconds. Technically, however, that makes it the second highest accelerating car; in the same way that it is the fastest production car, because the Koenigsegg one:1 did it faster off the record. The self described Megacar managed to reach 186 mph in 11.922