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Hennessey’s $2.5M Blackbird hypercar ditches digital for raw V8 power
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With the world’s most powerful and high-revving naturally-aspirated V8 engine and an old-school manual gearbox, meet the new Hennessey Blackbird hypercar – a sensational statement about decoupling mechanical innovation from digital dependency.
Unlike its previous 2,000-bhp warp-speed Venom F5, Hennessey designed the Blackbird around raw tactile feedback and high-fidelity mechanical connections.
With encouragement from the brand’s exclusive super-rich clients, he decided to build the brand’s most emotional, driver-focused analog car to date.
Hennessey’s $2.5 million antidote to modern, screen-heavy, electrified performance vehicles HennesseyThe Blackbird demonstrates that Hennessey aims to phase out its outright land-speed record era by 2028.
However, it confirmed that an exclusive group of global hypercar collectors had specifically petitioned the company to create a traditional, analog manual-transmission vehicle like the Blackbird.