When asked about the design brief he was given prior to embarking on Hennessey’s latest dream machine, Nathan Malinick, design director for the Texas-based marque, quipped; “Make the coolest manual hypercar of all time . . . so no pressure there." The result of that directive is the Hennessey Venom F5 Revolution LF, a one-off variant to the Venom F5 model, which first appeared in production guise back in 2020. Although originally known as a tuner, John Hennessey had long been driven to create a car from the ground up.
“The Venom F5 is the only thing that we’ve ever built that was like a clean sheet of paper," Hennessey told Robb Report in an interview five years ago. “We took everything that we knew and liked from the previous 29 years and tried to put the best of all of our know-how in the all-new car." And he has not stopped the refining process.
According to the official press release, this LF features an all-new carbon-fiber tub and 6.6-liter twin-turbo V-8 that makes more than 2,000 hp. Remarkably, that engine is paired with a six-speed manual transmission controlled via an H-pattern gated shifter—proof that analog still has powerful allure. And while this is a unique commission, it’s an example of what can be expected from Hennessey’s new special-projects division dubbed “Maverick"—a moniker befitting the founder himself.
From the article by Viju Mathew, Erik Shilling
