When I think about Hennessey Performance, my emotions stir into a concoction of thankful jolliness. The way Hennessey makes cars faster gives me the kind of feeling one would get if it was decided that Thanksgiving and Christmas would be combined, and then celebrated in August, November and December. The number-one reason Hennessey gets me […] More »
By: Manuel Carrillo III | December 11, 2013
Hennessey has been “making fast cars faster since 1991” and now that they have their hands on the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray they are certainly planning on holding themselves to their promise by offering upgrades of up to 1,000 horsepower for the C7! But let’s hold our horses. Hennessey has been testing their bone-stock […] More »
By: Cristina Antuna | October 4, 2013
We’ve got a new forum section up, C7 tech/performance, and since C7 Stingray deliveries began about a week ago the aftermarket has already jumped in. Yesterday, we posted a video of Hennessey running the new Vette down the 1/4 mile to establish a baseline but they already have customer C7s in the shop. The top-tune […] More »
By: Yoav Gilad | October 1, 2013
Hennessey builds some of the meanest cars under the sun and now they’ve gotten their hands on the new C7. Uh oh. It probably won’t be too long before it has seven trillion (or maybe just a thousand) horsepower. But below is video of a quarter-mile run with the C7 as it was delivered to […] More »
By: Yoav Gilad | September 30, 2013
If you want to be the first kid on your block to have a pumped-up Corvette Stingray, you might want to call John Hennessey and his team in Texas right now. Hennessey Performance announced its upgrade program for the seventh-generation Corvette on Monday morning, and it’s a wild one. Debuting in October for $18,450 will
By: Keith Cornett | July 17, 2013
Just days after Ken Lingenfelter of Lingenfelter Performance Engineering said the new C7 may not be capable of producing much more than 700-hp, Hennessey Performance Engineering has announced it plans to offer two very powerful engine performance upgrades for the 2014 Corvette Stingray later this year. Lingenfelter expressed reservations last week about the upper limits
By: IBxAnders | February 25, 2013
We’re not sure what to make of these three races on Dragtimes featuring a Corvette ZR1, a couple of Mercedes, a Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8, and a Porsche 911 TurboS. In the first race, the two Mercedes square off with the expected results, the E63 AMG tuned by Evotech with 730-hp leaving the stock S65
By: IBxAnders | July 5, 2012
