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SEMA 2008: Hennessey shows a pair of turbocharged Ford GTs
Click above for high-res gallery of the Hennessey Ford GTs
Hennessey is perhaps more closely associated with Dodge Vipers to most people, but they also do work on Ford's late, great supercar, the Ford GT, too. What Hennessey does with the GT is sort of up to you. One option they can do is a swap, wherein the factory supercharger is removed and a pair of turbos are fitted. With additional modifications, that car can reach more than 235 mph. If it strikes you as a sacrilegious thing to do to a rare factory-supercharged car, you can keep your blower and simply add the twin turbos as well. They call that one the Ford GT1000 for the metric tonne of horsepower it produces. It can squirt from 0-60 in 2.6 seconds and cover the quarter in 10.6 on its way past 240 mph. The company had one of each on hand at SEMA this year in front of the duPont Registry trailer. Decisions, decisions. We'll take one of each.
Gallery: SEMA 2008: Hennessey Ford GTs
Photos copyright ©2008 Frank Filipponio/Weblogs, Inc.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Yaroukh 6:44PM (11/09/2008)
The Most Beautiful American Car Ever.
2nd Most Beautiful Car Ever.
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Michael 7:06PM (11/09/2008)
Out of curiosity, what do you consider the single most beautiful car?
Yaroukh 7:07PM (11/09/2008)
Jaguar XJ-220
Andrew L 9:19PM (11/09/2008)
This is just me but I like the GT90's styling better :p
but still this is pretty damn impressive
elpepe 9:35PM (11/09/2008)
Jaguar XJ-220 has ridiculously large overhangs.... wouldn't call that beautiful. It has actually aged pretty bad IMHO.
Cole Mitguard 5:23AM (11/10/2008)
The XJ220 was a great car for its time, but I would have to agree with the poster above, it hasnt really held on to that futuristic elegance it once had. My boss where I used to work had one, and I was just never impressed with it once I actually spent some time in the car, and around it. Its one of those cars that looks better from afar I guess, haha.
As for the Ford GT, not the most beautiful car ever, but I would argue the most beautiful car built in the last 50 years by an American company. Its lines are just so clean and tight.
JamesWB 10:09AM (11/12/2008)
lol@XJ220, those Rover 200 rear lights sure are beautiful.
petee209 6:48PM (11/09/2008)
all made with 100% stolen parts!!!!
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Crackberry Addict 6:52PM (11/09/2008)
care to explain what you mean by that?
tankd0g 6:59PM (11/09/2008)
He must have finally burned every rich Viper owner in America and has to move on to another car.
ichime 10:07PM (11/09/2008)
Hell, even the entire car was probably stolen.
Crackberry Addict 9:07AM (11/10/2008)
jeeze people, i just wanted to know what he meant. idk why my comment is low ranked.
Crackberry Addict 6:53PM (11/09/2008)
I like it. But i really like the twin turbo Gallardo. Both are sexy tho.
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Mobius_1 7:13PM (11/09/2008)
What an amazing car the Ford GT was and still is: the ultimate blue collar supercar
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BoxerFanatic 11:59AM (11/10/2008)
What exactly is "blue collar" about a >100k$ limited production car?
Super car, very likely, but the blue-collar adjective isn't required.
BTW, it is a british Lola design, with a Ford engine, that won a European race series in a landslide (LeMans 1966), and then was renovated for historical significance. It is more of a european car than an American one, from it's inception.
Cory 11:18AM (11/10/2008)
Hmm. Not sure the GT qualifies as a blue collar vehicle. It's still 6 figures.
Mobius_1 2:24PM (11/10/2008)
I concede it hasn't got a blue-collar price tag, but you cannot deny it has a blue-collar attitude, especially with that badge usually found on truly blue-collar cars. Also, it isn't supercar aristocracy like Ferrari/(Porsche)/McLaren etc, but rather like a common worker (I tried to find a less communist-sounding term).
Christian 10:42PM (11/10/2008)
"and then was renovated for historical significance. It is more of a european car than an American one, from it's inception."
You BoxerFanatic, are high. Renovated? The car was designed just like any modern supercar. The car was designed from the ground up by Ford and SVT and built by SVT. The lines are european, nothing else.
Bungle 10:11PM (11/09/2008)
Why is the twin-turbo GT the world's fastest, and the twin-turbo & supercharged not? More boost on the former or something?
And what the F is that next to the world's fastest? Some kind of Russian tank or something?
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Systo 11:48PM (11/09/2008)
The 'tank' is actually a small house made by Ford called the F-650.