Truth be told, the 435 horsepower and 400 lb-ft Coyote V8 of the 2015 Ford Mustang GT isn’t a Moulinex kitchen mixer. It’s a full-on vee-eight that displaces 5 liters and envelops everything around it with its burble. But if you want more oomph and aural pleasure, there’s a solution for that.
Cue the Hennessey Performance Engineering mod shop, the world’s favorite Texan tuner. Since John Hennessey set up shop in 1991, many machines saw their HP and LbFt taken to the extreme by this outfit, but with the HPE700 Supercharged Upgrade you can’t help but feel that this thing is extremely special.
Based on the fastback variant of the 2015 Mustang GT, John Hennessey and his crew took things up a notch. Up to 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat level, that is. With 717 HP and 632 lb-ft of twist available from 4,400 rpm, this thing is one of the most brutish road-legal ‘Stangs out there. No wonder that only 500 pieces will be built for the 2015 model year...
John himself took the muscly machine for a drive this time around and damn, that thing can smoke its tires effortlessly. But then again, if you are a lil’ careful at launch, you’ll be able to hit 60 mph (96 km/h) in 3.6 seconds and the quarter mile will be dealt with in a blistering 11.2 seconds at 131 mph (211 km/h).
Besides the 2.9-liter supercharger system, all the visual enhancements and carbon fiber pieces, it’s remarkable that Hennessey Performance offers a 3-year/36,000-mile limited warranty for this brute. From what we’ve learned in the videoclip below, even John has sufficient faith in the HPE 700’s reliability.
After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well. Full profile
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