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As the age-old saying goes, you wait ages for a morsel of news on how development of the world's 300mph+ hypercars is getting on, and then two massive stories drop in the space of 24 hours. It's always the

For those repulsed by subtlety

First announced back in 2020, the Hennessey Mammoth 1000 6x6 TRX is now officially in production. Which means it's time for us all to submit our unconditional surrender and welcome it as our new overlord.No point fighting it, is there?

But the quest for 300mph (480kph) continues

The Hennessey Venom F5 is ready for public consumption, and boy, is there a lot to consume. The F5's chief engineer John Heinricy has officially signed off the car by means of a 270mph+ (435kph+) run. Yeah, that'll do it.

This, or the standard Raptor?

John Hennessey saw that Ford planned to unveil the Bronco Raptor and basically said, "Hold my beer."This is the Hennessey Bronco VelociRaptor 400. It's a souped-up version of the high-demand off-road plaything, and its reveal came several

Place your bets

Ah, another head-to-head drag race. In one corner, we have the Ford F-150 Raptor. Packing a 3.5-liter twin-turbo EcoBoost with 450hp and a whopping 691Nm of torque, and running on a tuned Fox suspension setup, this

Getting a bit of practice for its 500kph target

You've seen it nearly rattle itself free from a dyno, then shoot flames from its quad exhausts. Now it's time to watch Hennessey's Venom F5 have a brief dalliance with the concept of '250mph.' That's just over 400kph.

An ode to gasoline

The last time Hennessey's 6.6-liter V8 stepped onto the dyno, it nearly tore free of its leash. This time, it's threatening to burn them off entirely. Reacquaint yourselves with an engine nicknamed 'Fury.'Hennessey's latest televisual update

Which of these did you find most shocking?

So, in no particular order, here are some of the moments from Planet Car in 2021 that made us go "Eh?" And we begin near the end of the year, with yet another controversial BMW. We shouldn't be shocked by now,

Welcome to Project Deep Space

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos...John Hennessey? Could America's favorite purveyor of hyper-horsepower be about to take the great leap into space? Nah, of course not-just a small step into the outer reaches of his imagination.Meet the Project Deep

Courtesy of 600 thundering horses under the hood

Another day, another wildly powerful pickup truck from Texas-based tuners Hennessey Performance. Only this isn't just another 1,000hp one-off-this is the latest generation of Hennessey's best-selling performance truck, the VelociRaptor 600.It's now based

The Hennessey Venom 775 F-150 will put even other beastly trucks to shame

Ford fans who want nothing else but to trump the menacing Ram 1500 TRX now have a lot of options on their hands. A few months back, we saw the reveal of Shelby's heavily tuned 775hp F-150. Now, we get

The local automotive industry’s getting pretty busy

Only 30 will be built, and each will be individually numbered

This, folks, is an 'extra-special' version of the Hennessey Exorcist. As timely as it is, this has nothing to do with the newly announced The Exorcist trilogy that's set to begin by 2023. Rather, this is Hennessey Performance's way

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This 4x4 will do 0-97kph in 4.9sec

The Internet's hottest off-roader that's not a Defender has already been given the Hennessey treatment. Welcome to the-deep breath-Hennessey VelociRaptor 400 Bronco.Unsurprisingly, the 400 Bronco produces a smidge over 400 horsepower-405hp to be exact-which

This thing is absolutely massive

As you might be able to tell by the name, nothing about the new Hennessey Mammoth 1000 SUV is small.Based on the already giant Ram TRX, Hennessey's latest creation is a seven-seat monster SUV with an additional 'Mammoth Off-

It’s moving on to the second part of a three-phase program

Hennessey has today confirmed that its Venom F5 hypercar has completed the first of a three-part development program. Basically: It goes really fast.We're told this first phase focused on refinement, steering, and aero. The F5 was sent out for

With 600hp and ‘Dyneema’ armor plating

The past week, Ford revealed a brand-new F-150 Raptor. Well, it turns out the outgoing one has something to say about it.This is no ordinary Raptor. If any vastly overpowered monster truck sold from a factory can ever be

It accelerates as quickly as a McLaren F1

The standard Ram 1500 TRX is not a sane thing. It's a 2.9-ton pickup truck with 35-inch tires and a 702hp 6.2-liter supercharged Hellcat V8 for crying out loud. Naturally, we absolutely love it.So does

“About as delicate as a wrecking ball to the face”

You're looking at the first production prototype of the Hennessey Venom F5, the long-awaited 300mph+ (483kph+) all-American hypercar, and-spoiler alert-it doesn't disappoint. Let's start with the F5 name, derived from the Fujita tornado intensity scale,