The $3 Million Hennessey Venom F5 Roadster is a Masterpiece! 

Very cool indeed and I’m still knocked out I got to drive it

Definitely not the owner

@gd15555 it was good meeting you and thanks for letting us shoot “your” car lol!

@@AutotopiaLA True. Sucks to suck @GD15555

​ @AutotopiaLA if you are ever in need of a vacation, can I fill in for you?Man, what a dream job(talking in my sleep, dreaming)

Actually it doesn't have airbags

Gotta buy a Koenigsegg for the refridgerated cup holder at that price. Plus, it has a keep hot feature as well. Not to mention the Koenigsegg and almost all parts are designed and fabricated in house. Not bolt on etc etc from other companies. A completely different realm of car making in my uneducated RU-vid addicted couch surfing opinion.

Dunno but the coffee warmer runs off the radiator, haha.

Okay daddy, whenever you order one we'll talk. 🤣

We don't need cupholders where we are going! 💨

A cammed pushrod V8...... Dude. Its just a dragster-tuned Corvette engine. What is with you people and your flagwaving. Its the only "hypercar" that isnt a hypercar at all. And JUST like the equally fake SSC Tuatara, they both use a tuned Corvette engine that doesnt have anything CLOSE to 1817 HP. They have around 1100. Notice how you never see them with number plates. Because its not road legal in ANY country. It doesnt even have airbags.

@@captain_context9991 Limited production numbers, 250+ mph top speed, $2m-$3m price tag, 1800+ hp! Tell me how this isn't a Hypercar.

@@andyg806 Uhm.... They claim to be an ALL-AMERICAN, TEXAS BUILT HYPERCAR... And its none of those things. I dont make the decisions, dude. Its just a dragster-tuned Corvette engine. And it runs at around 1150-something HP. FAR from the 1817 they like to claim. This thing is also not road legal in any country, and its about as "American" as socialised healthcare. If you have any questions, I know everything that is to know about this thing. But John Hennessey is the Alex Jones of the car world and you cant trust anything he tells you. He is a grifter. -And this is one of his scams.

​@@andyg806it's a hyper kit car

​@@captain_context9991 You think that guy is flag waving? 😂 Look in the mirror buddy, you're waving the biggest flag of any group out there - the hater flag 🚩

report for corn

Really a crazy car

Yeah for 3 million, you would expect to get something that doesnt run on kit-car number plates. Something with airbags, something which has legal VIN / Chassis numbers. This is not... A real "hypercar" and its not worth anything close to millions of dollars as long as it has to run on kit-car plates. With a dragster-tuned Corvette engine.

It all started with a Lotus 😂

Thanks man! The team continues to crush and keeps pushing to get better. Lots more to come from me and the crew

Thank you and Hennessey is definitely no joke…would love to shoot with them on their proving grounds

@AutotopiaLA I'd like to know when that goes down. They're about 90 min away from me. There's a lot of content out there.

Hennessey has screwed over more than a few people. I love every car he's made especially the Exorcist but he's a terrible business man and an even worse person

Amen!

Hennessy is trash

Yep, just like Sean. He drove it like a total pussy. But I would have done the same. 🤣

It was nerve racking honestly. Cool but was glad to get it back safely

@@AutotopiaLA I would honestly be nervous to drive a super fast car that has never been crash tested and has exactly zero airbags. Can you elaborate a bit on what the factory said about legalisation? Because its actually not road legal in ANY country. And Hennessey did not make this car themselves. It arrives 100% ready built from a company called Delta Motorsports in England. Its the exact same as SSC Tuatara. Except SSC cars are built in Italy by an Italian LeMans car manufacturer... The same company Jim Glickenhaus uses to build their cars. These cars are as "American" as socialised healthcare.

​@@captain_context9991love how your so hell bent on any compliments to the car you just go on full blown blown rant of dissing it EVERY COMMENT. Did john Hennessy say he was gonna fxck you anymore for a free venom lol or did your mom say you wasnt gonna be shxt

Awesome!

American hypercar, indeed. Remember the previous "American hypercar" ?? The SSC Tuatara? It quickly turned out to be just a tuned Corvette engine with nothing CLOSE to the claimed performance. The only difference is that Hennessey F5 was built in England by Delta Motorsport, while the SSC Tuatara (which is bankrupt now) got built in Italy by a LeMans racecar company. So they may well be good cars. But they are zero % American. So "AMERICAS HYPERCARS" both of them, are not road legal cars in any country, and also not American.

⁠@@captain_context9991Aha that explains why there's not much Tuatara units delivered to customers.

@@GSCinquanta There are not many Tuataras... They managed to build 2 or 3. And then the Italian LeMans racing company that 100% built them... Pulled out of the project. Probably because they didnt want to be part of this american scam. When SSC got busted faking that world record, the Italian LeMans racing company took SSC off their website, and I believe they have since pulled entirely out of the project. So Hennessey F5 and SSC Tuatara. The scam they are running is that they pay these foreign race car companies 1-2 million dollars a pop to make cars for them. Then they ship these cars over to America in crates. In crates with ready-built parts. So that the Americans can just rent a warehouse (like SSC does) or use their tuneshop warehouse like Hennesey does, where they have 6 cornfed local boys screwing these crates together to a finished car.Using all these ready built crates. They do this because then they dont have to impor tax them as cars. And then they can legally call the car "American built" So that they can get kit-car number plates on them. So they are professionally built by experts in Italy and England, but to an American standard. So ZERO crash testing, no emissions certification, no health & safety, no federalisation, no nothing. Because in America you can put kit-car number plates on anything. The cars dont even have airbags. Why dont they have airbags on a 2-3 million dollar car? Because if they have airbags, then they would have to be responsible for the airbags deploying properly, which means crash testing, and federalisation for insurance and liability rates, and its a lot of expensive testing and paperwork. And they use Corvette engines that are FAR from the performance numbers they claim. To get their wild HP numbers, they would have to run them on bio ethanol and stuff. And even then they can only do a couple of drag strip runs and hten its over. They cannot DRIVE on the full power. Its just a Corvette engine after all. So yeah. They screw together car parts that come in crates from England (Hennessey F5) and Italy (SSC Tuatara) and then they CLAIM they are all-american hypercars. And then they pay 1-2 million bucks to the companies that really built the cars, and then they slap a 1-2 million dollar profit on top of them. So thats the scam. Hennessey is a known scammer. So nothing new there. And SSC got caught faking that top speed world record, but most people dont remember he also got busted faking that woooorld record top speed back in 2007 too. So there you go. American scams.

Still can’t believe I got to drive this car! Amazing experience

Yeah. Why do you think they have not let the whole critical motor press drive this thing? Have you ever seen one with number plates? This is not a REAL car, dude. It has exactly zero airbags, no crash testing, no Federalisation of any kind. No type approval, no legal VIN / Chassis numbers, and also not FIA approved for racing. And that MAGIC 1817 HP engine, is just a dragster-tuned Corvette engine. And it only produces a bit over 1100 HP. Not over 1800. Not even close. Its just a Corvette engine after all.

​@@captain_context9991 Bro you are commenting on every single top comment thread, how could this car possibly make you this upset? Why do you have so much free time? You've been coming back every hour for two days in a row. Mommy and daddy didn't love you so you're desperate for negative attention? This is pathetic and embarrassing....

What were the first and second channels, Johnson?

@@alexfischer7876 Is it too difficult to do a search for yourself Fisher? Personally I think it is rude AF to promote other larger channels on someones channel.

But this was made by real engineers…. 😊

LOL

Yeah, I would never buy this koenigsegg all the way

Then buy it

The guys who can buy this type of cars can buy both of them 😂

Just caught that lol!

Thanks…the team is really killing it

What makes it a kit car?

@@AutotopiaLA Their factory tour videos clearly explains/shows the process, getting every part finished in boxes and they just mount it onto the car!

@@mkz8960 Facts, everything is made outside of murica and shipped in wooden boxes to the texas assembly plant, it's not even a manufacturing factory. Their cars aren't crash tested, don't come with airbags, road legal only in 50 states and that too when they have to be registered using show and display rule otherwise they can't even be road registered!

Engineering Explained has a good explained that in pedestrian terms and with accuracy

Tempting but had to show respect for the owner and the 1800 hp

Thanks for watching

Wow is right!

It was amazing to get to shoot this and drive it!

@@AutotopiaLA keep living the dream brother!

Thanks for the comment. Was wondering how this would be received on the channel

Give it wings and it’s a plane

😁

I said that a few times driving this

Cool. This is the first time I’ve seen one in person

You may have seen him in some movies. He had a pretty big role in Lone Survivor. Cool guy for sure

@@AutotopiaLA I think I've seen that movie before but not quite sure. Now I'll have to check it out. And Scott does seem like a super chill guy. But when you're living the life he's living. I would be too lol.

Not at all which was surprising

Steering yokes in road cars are just jackass in-general.

lol!

Thanks for the input here

Thank you. And you’re probably 100% accurate

What is ISF?

@@danmyers9372 Lexus IS F it’s a 5 L V-8 forged internals, 11 to 1 compression 2 oil scavengers, it has titanium intake valves, and the engine takes 10 quarts of oil that Lexus Maybe made I think 5000 of our cars.

​@@danmyers9372performance variant of a Lexus IS sedan

" what a car !" 👏

We may add some more here

@@AutotopiaLALamborghini aventador

Would love that and even better would be on their proving grounds to be able to put some power down

It’s a stellar car on all points. Especially the sounds it makes!

Build a 347 stroker

People in the market for this car already have those things. It’s not either or.

Pa dum pa!

Well he's still in business, and customers still send their cars to him, so if he is still scamming, then no one knows about it. Back when he was pulling parts off one customers car to put on another he exacerbated the situation by being a dick on his social media and forum accounts. I'd assume his reputation is still intact

Are you the same person you were 20 years ago?

@@poly_g6068 would you spend 3mil on a car from a guy who had that rep 20yrs ago?

Not a lot of people heard about him before that scam. One could argue it may have even helped his business long term. Any publicity is good publicity.

I’d love to shoot an S7! Still a favorite of mine

lol!

Awesome!

Thank you!

If you're talking about faster as in higher top speed, then weight doesn't have an effect on top speed.

of course you'd get a jesko instead, you'd be an idiot to choose this 🤣 this car is for patriotic suckers

it was a modded lotus elise, which means this f5 s technically his 1st car... for 3mil. the 1st one was a reliability nightmare, tyler's stalled out on him in a video

The Hennessey Venom was just a Chop-shopped Lotus Exige, yes. Just a chopshopped Lotus with a Corvette engine. The work was done in England by the same company that made this F5 car. its NOT a real road legal car.

No doubt! This only ends up in the uber wealthy garages of the world

It was on 100 octane

Roadster or coupe? Seems low for either one but especially the Roadster