The American company Hennessey is known primarily as a tuning studio, but also produces completely original supercars within the Hennessey Special Vehicles division ( HSV). Hennessey chief designer Nathan Malinik spoke about what the next supercar from HSV will be.
In 2021, the Hennessey Special Vehicles division and John Hennessy personally, about whom we recently published a large historical material, announced Project Deep Space is a project of a monstrous six-wheeled electric supercar with an aerospace-style carbon fiber body and a 1+2+1 seating position. It was assumed that Project Deep Space would turn into a small-scale model in 2026, but now the project is frozen until better times.
Sketch of Hennessey Project Deep Space
According to Carscoops magazine, which spoke with Hennessey's chief designer Nathan Malinik, the company's clients were very interested in Project Deep Space, but many of them said that they would be more willing to purchase a completely different kind of product from Hennessey, namely a classic analogue supercar that would involve the driver as much as possible in control. Hennessey customers want the roar of the engine, the click of the gear lever, the sound of the wind and the feeling of being one with the car, and the innovative Project Deep Space is still on the periphery of their consciousness. In general, HSV has switched from Project Deep Space to developing a new supercar with “traditional values”, which will replace the Hennessey Venom F5.
Hennessey Venom F5
The Hennessey Venom F5, equipped with a 6.6-liter twin-turbo V8 engine producing 1,842 hp, was designed with record-breaking dynamic performance in mind, although it has not yet set the promised world speed record among production road cars. The Revolution track version of the Venom F5 supercar, as it turned out, was born at the suggestion of a very wealthy Hennessey client who owns his own racing track: he said that he wanted a Venom F5 that can not only shoot in a straight line, but also take delicate turns.
Hennessey Venom F5 Revolution Roadster
The new yet unnamed supercar, the production of which Hennessey will begin after it delivers to customers all copies of the Venom F5 planned for release, will be even more emotional and precise to drive than the Venom F5 Revolution, but with a slightly more modest dynamic characteristics, since it will have a high-speed naturally aspirated engine and a manual gearbox. In its spirit, the new Hennessey supercar will be close to such cars as the Porsche Carrera GT and Gordon Murray T.50 — this is exactly the kind of new product Hennessey clients dream of and are ready to shell out any money for it.
Add , that the tuning direction of Hennessey’s business is also developing: last week the company announced the launch of the Hennessey Special Operations (HSO) division, which will be responsible for the most powerful and most expensive tuning projects. The first such project will be the 1,700-horsepower Hennessey Demon 1700 Twin-Turbo based on the discontinued Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 drag coupe.