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More good news from our gung-ho friends at Hennessey Performance. Barely a week goes by without the Texan tuning firm unleashing a mentalist muscle car. So all hail the Corvette Z700 - the, er, ‘performance' version of the slow and tiresome ZR1.
The Z700 is to the standard ZR1 what the GT3 is to a 911: a pared-down, power-crazed version of itself. Hennessey has gone for lightweight wheels and carbon fibre body bits, with some extra flips and flaps to increase downforce. Then its engineers injected the engine with some extra testosterone to boost power to 705bhp - that's 67 more than standard.
The price for all this is just over $200,000, or twice the price of a standard car.
Clearly these guys have large man parts. And to prove it, they'll be taking it to the Nurburgring later this year to set some times and scare some Porsches.
Now watch Jezza drive the ZR1 in the boys' second big US trip:
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What do you think?
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Paxx commented on this article
at 02:55 pm on 07 July 2009
I don't know what people think but this man Hennessey has an unsavoury reputation. Buyer beware I suppose.
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mclaren001 commented on this article
at 04:21 pm on 07 July 2009
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THATS AWSOME
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goodwood14 commented on this article
at 04:22 pm on 07 July 2009
know i wanna see this, a 750bhp ZR1.
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Sharky commented on this article
at 04:38 pm on 07 July 2009
It'a more like a "GT2" cause i think the Z06 is the "GT3" of the range.
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carguytom commented on this article
at 09:07 pm on 07 July 2009
ok.... a bit unusual to say the least
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