How powerful is the Hennessey Venom GT? Just you watch

13 years, 3 months ago - 12 September 2011

It's easy to talk endlessly about unbelievably powerful cars, almost to the point that numbers become meaningless.

In an effort to crystallize what 1,200 horses in a 2,685-pound car can do in the real world, we present a new video of the 2012 Hennessey Venom GT.

In the time it takes your wheezy Civic to go from 105 to 120 km/h, the Venom GT has sprinted from 70 mph (112 km/h) to a staggering 215 (346 km/h) and is on its cool-down run. If you were to push hard enough with enough road, Hennessey says the Venom GT wouldn't stop until it hit 275 mph (442 km/h). See the what the instrument cluster in the Venom looks like when you drop the hammer at 70 mph (112 km/h).