Hennessey Debuts Its 2,031-HP Manual Hypercar at Goodwood with Stunning Individual Details

The first Hennessey Venom F5-M, the world's most powerful manual hypercar, has been completed for its British owner, and the stunning creation will make its global debut this weekend at the Goodwood Festival of Speed (July 9-12). As gorgeous as the spec is, it won't be a static display, with the F5-M scheduled to tear up the Goodwood hillclimb with racing driver Alex Brundle behind the wheel (yoke, actually) twice a day for each day of the festival. Just 12 of these F5-Ms will be made, but their development will yield improvements for "regular" F5s too, as if any 2,031-horsepower hypercar could be called regular.

First Hennessey Venom F5-M Debuts in Gold and Purple Glory

The first production Hennessey Venom F5-M is going to a U.K.-based customer who specced their car through the Texas-based outfit's Maverick bespoke division and has chosen exposed purple carbon fiber for the body with anodized gold accents making the car pop. A 24-karat gold badge on the nose and their commissioning family's name, 'Sheikh,' has been added to the rear of the car and the interior stitching. Speaking of the cabin, the gated billet aluminum shifter has also been given a gold finish, as have the center console and the air conditioning vents. The auric hue also appears on the charge pipes in the engine bay that feed boosted air pressure from the massive Precision turbos to the 6.6-liter 'Fury' V8.

To provide greater contrast and more of a wow factor inside the Roadster, the leather upholstery is a pure white for the seats, door cards, and steering yoke, while less obvious details include hand-painted British Union and American Stars and Stripes flags that are hand-painted on either end of the 55-inch dorsal fin above the engine. The cost of something like this? From $2.65 million before taxes.

F5-M Will Help Other Hennessey Hypercars Get Crazier

While the F5-M is limited to only a dozen examples, its updated carbon fiber chassis architecture and the option of a manual transmission will be available to other F5 variants, including closed-roof Coupe variants and the track-biased Revolution models. Now that F5-M production models have begun being unveiled, it won't be long before the creative minds at Hennessey start getting bored and choose to work on something new. The company has already hinted at a new hypercar, so we just need to be patient. Hopefully, we'll see more at next year's Festival of Speed, but in the meantime, Monterey Car Week takes place next month, and Hennessey will doubtless make a splash there too. What should Hennessey build next? Let us know below.

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