Sometimes it’s the useless things that make life just that little bit more beautiful. Breaking a speed record with a Christmas tree on the roof seems to us a perfect example of this.
The American Hennessey Performance is a company where the amount of fun in life is measured by the amount of horsepower under the hood. The company has made pumping up cars with dizzying capabilities an art and has a knack for putting six-wheeled monsters on the road. In addition, Hennessey Performance is the club behind cars such as the Venom GT and Venom F5. The Christmas days are now behind us, but Hennessey Performance gives another wise lesson for the Christmas days of 2022: you can drive retardedly fast with a Christmas tree on the roof.
Hennessey Performance has broken a self-invented record. The Audi RS6 Avant of the wife of Hennessey founder John Hennessey is the fastest station wagon ever with a Christmas tree on the roof, yes. John Hennessey and his cronies tied a Christmas tree to the roof of the RS6 Avant and pedaled the 811 hp spruce deliverer to a speed of 295 km/h. The aerodynamically disruptive shape of the tree was of course the ax to the trunk of a higher top speed. Incidentally, it is not the first time that Hennessey has chased a Christmas tree over the asphalt with a rotten gait. In 2018, a Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk with a Christmas tree on the roof, boosted to 986 hp, reached a speed of 291 km/h. That record has now been shattered.
“First we looked at how fast my wife’s RS6 Avant ran without a tree on the roof. We got to 330 km/h. Then the fun started when we tied a Christmas tree on the roof. To our surprise, the station reached a very respectable speed of 295 km/h. Who needs a reindeer when your wife has an 811 horsepower station?” according to John Hennessey, who undoubtedly enjoys the high frills content of Hennessey Performance’s action.
The video below of the successful record attempt is definitely worth watching in our opinion:
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl