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"If everybody is moving in one direction," explains John Hennessey, "I like to go the opposite way." That, ladies and gentlemen, is confirmation that we won"t see an all-electric version of the Hennessey Venom F5. With new EV hypercars popping up on a seemingly weekly basis, Hennessey wants to keep things old school. "If the market is moving towards electrification, we are the old-school guys who believe in a maximum power to weight ratio delivered via a 1,600bhp-plus, twin-turbo V8 internal combustion engine," he told TopGear.com. Why? Because he points back to the grand tuning traditions of Colin Chapman and Carrol Shelby, and the cars they were building more than 50 years ago.
Date written: 30 Jan 2019
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ID: 14686
"If everybody is moving in one direction," explains John Hennessey, "I like to go the opposite way." That, ladies and gentlemen, is confirmation that we won"t see an all-electric version of the Hennessey Venom F5. With new EV hypercars popping up on a seemingly weekly basis, Hennessey wants to keep things old school. "If the market is moving towards electrification, we are the old-school guys who believe in a maximum power to weight ratio delivered via a 1,600bhp-plus, twin-turbo V8 internal combustion engine," he told TopGear.com. Why? Because he points back to the grand tuning traditions of Colin Chapman and Carrol Shelby, and the cars they were building more than 50 years ago.
Date written: 30 Jan 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14686
