The American Hennessey Performance is like a child behind the clay table. The company has no shortage of imagination and if someone calls to come with a hypercar, the company has to get over it with an even crazier colossus. The Texans show off their childish playfulness and passion for endless mountains of horsepower by announcing a new hyper-GT. With six wheels.
You will undoubtedly know Hennessey Performance from the mighty Venom F5, the American speed monster of its own making that succeeded the Venom GT. In addition, Hennessey Performance provides excessive power cures for pick-ups. More than once, the company has poured 1,000-horsepower, multi-turbocharged eight-cylinder into pickups and SUVs, but this time it’s time for something new. We get a taste of what Hennessey Performance calls ‘Project Deep Space’.
Little concrete is known about Project Deep Space yet, but Hennessey Performance already describes the colossus as “[…] the most expensive electric car in the world” and speaks of a starting price of $3 million, converted about €2.64 million. And yes, you read that right. Electric. Project Deep Space doesn’t get powerful V8 power with multiple superchargers or turbos , but an electric powertrain.
That’s not the only thing Project Deep Space is attracting attention to. Project Deep Space will be a six-wheeled electric monster with gullwing doors. Now Hennessey Performance has experience building 6x6s, but we’ve never seen a flattened six-wheel hyper-GT before. There is an electric motor in every wheel and Hennessey promises that his first EV “[…] excruciatingly fast” and, thanks to an extra set of wheels at the rear, has up to 50 percent more traction than a regular four-wheel car. A simple calculation. More promises? Sure, after all we are talking about the company of founder John Hennessey and his friends. Built around a carbon fiber base, Deep Space is likely to become the fastest accelerating four-seater in the world to 320 km/h.
Hennessey Deep Space
Project Deep Space is intended to be an extremely luxurious four-seater with the seats divided over three rows of seats. The driver sits centrally in the front, diagonally behind we find two seats and centrally in the rear is the fourth passenger. The last seat in the back is also the best seat. At least, so it seems. Hennessey calls it the seat for the VVIP, the Very Very Important Person, and likens the pampering it pours out on its passenger to the luxury of a private jet. According to Hennessey Performance, there is also room enough for four golf bags – not unimportant, it seems. At the rear, the final hypercar has two extra wheels, which on paper provides 50 percent extra traction in a completely straight line.
How exactly does it all dry up? We are very curious. Knowing Hennessey Performance it becomes an absolute tribute to automotive insanity. Hennessey Performance says it will build 105 copies of the hymn to madness. The first ‘Deep Space’ is to be delivered in 2026.
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