VIDEO: Hennessey GTR700 rips 2.8s 0-60 with launch control off
You name it and John Hennessey will make it faster. From Vipers to Vettes to Challengers, Hennessey Performance will take competent sports cars and make them into tire-shredding speed demons with more horsepower than any street-going vehicle should ever logically have. The latest creation to come from the Texas tuner is the GTR700 based on the Nissan GT-R. The upgraded Godzilla now sports 715 horsepower and 662 lb-ft torque thanks to numerous modifications including a stainless steel exhaust system, new ECU programming, modified turbos with larger compressor wheels, 100mm cold air intake, high-flow fuel injectors, transmission cooler, clutch pack upgrades, and more. The result is stupefying. Sixty mph comes up in just 2.8 seconds, 100 mph in 6.7 seconds and 150 mph in 14.5 seconds. Compared to a stock GT-R, the GTR700 reaches 186 mph in less than half the time. Someone needs to take this thing to the Nurburgring. Hit the jump to watch the Hennessey GTR700 hit a full 1.0g during acceleration on its way to a 10.87 sec @ 132 mph quarter mile run.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Nick Vrana 10:33AM (4/08/2009)
AB, please stop supporting this crook. I hate reading his stories on here and thinking you guys may be sending him more business.
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spookthehamster 10:40AM (4/08/2009)
Agreed. PLEASE stop. Hennessey doesn't deserve any attention for what he does.
k4ffy 10:50AM (4/08/2009)
what's he done?
Todd 11:00AM (4/08/2009)
@k4ffy: Just look at his Better Business Bureau rating and see why. He would constantly take people's Vipers in, strip them of their parts (the hood if I remember was a $5K+part), and let them sit. People would then complain about how long something was taking, and then he'd take a new viper that came in, strip it of its parts to rebuild the other stripped out car, and give the person a refund.
Also sometimes he would sell a new part, "install" it on a car. Owners soon found out that it was the original part, or an OEM equivilant.
The only people that don't get the runaround are people living in Texas.
CarbonBlack 11:04AM (4/08/2009)
I agree!
Autoblog shouldn't write any articles about this punk, unless it is an article on an indictment!
k4ffy 11:06AM (4/08/2009)
:( that sucks.
i looked on bbb.org, they don't seem to have any data about his company:
http://bit.ly/ZBwDE
AZZO45b 12:54PM (4/08/2009)
Agree 1000%... Thanks Nick for starting us off.
One is DRINKING too much Hennessy Cognac if you shallow the BS that John Hennessey attempts to sell you!!!
AB... stop being this guys PIMP!!! :( :(
Avinash machado 10:38AM (4/08/2009)
Rips seems to be an nice word for Hennessey.
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chconline 10:38AM (4/08/2009)
In other news, John Hennessey rips $280k and a GT-R off you in 0-60 seconds with your wallet still in your pocket.
Or maybe you just gave it to him.
:P
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petee209 10:41AM (4/08/2009)
I love how Autoblog turns a blind eye to the countless comments about this DBag con artist.
PS those wheels are ugly
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2millers2 10:48AM (4/08/2009)
You would think Autoblog would look out for it's readers. I guess you can't trust anyone these days. Eveyone is only out for a buck...
f650 3:38PM (4/08/2009)
AB is in Hennessey's pocket.
There's no other reason why they wouldn't stop posting this press-release circle jerk material since most of the readers seem to be against it, myself included.
dmoneycivicsi 10:45AM (4/08/2009)
lose the wheels and put some monoblock Volks (TE37s, CE28Ns, etc) and it will probably go faster than the blingers on there
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JDMlover 2:52PM (4/08/2009)
That car is HOT.....leave the rims.
Gomi 10:46AM (4/08/2009)
he may be a crook, but what he did to that car is amazing.
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dinnercoat 11:28AM (4/08/2009)
Just like Hitler may have been a genocidal monster but he was a brilliant tactician.
Gomi 11:56AM (4/08/2009)
why bring hitler into this? you could have made your point another way.
AZZO45b 12:57PM (4/08/2009)
That John Wayne Gacy guy might have killed all those people... but he sure was a FUNNY CLOWN!!! Nice logic there bud (NOT)!!!
Gomi 1:35PM (4/08/2009)
and equating a potential crook to mass murderers is good logic?
Big Rocket 1:45PM (4/08/2009)
Godwin's Law strikes again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law