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This thing is insane.

It sounds like 0-40 is practically at idle, then it sounds like he's spinning the tires from there to 100. Then it gets really insane. 270mph, that's hard for me to fathom. Some of the acceleration was at .8G which is pretty impressive in my book.

from http://blogs.marketwatch.com/themargin/2014/02/24/venom-unseats-bugatti-veyron-as-fastest-production-car/

Here’s footage of the insane run in which the 7.0-liter twin-turbo GM-sourced (Yes, GM GM -sourced) V8 accelerated from 20 m.p.h. to 120 m.p.h. in just 7.71 seconds, as VBox figures showed, per Top Gear. The Venom’s engine, built in Sealy, Texas, rocketed the car from 120 m.p.h. to 220 m.p.h. in less than 10 seconds.

“At the very top end, there was a little wandering, but hey, we’re going 270 m.p.h.!” the former Michelin test engineer told Top Gear. “It was still pulling. If we could run on an eight-mile oval, we could go faster than that.”

While the numbers show the Venom to be the fastest, it won’t be recognized by Guinness as such. To qualify for that, the vehicle would have needed to make another run in the opposite direction to account for winds. And NASA wasn’t allowing another run. Semantics, though. The Veyron Super Sport hit 265.96mph one way, and 269.86mph the other — both short of the Venom any way you look at it.

And what’s more, the folks over at Guinness put the bar at 30 units to be considered a production car. Hennessey is only rolling out 29.

I bet that's a heck of a ride.

I remember when people were discovering old used parts being used in their upgraded vipers. I wonder if that sort of thing has stopped.

Not much happens until about 45 secs.