Every sports car company is always chasing numbers. Whether it’s how fast it goes around a lap of the Nürburgring, the amount of cylinders they can cram into the engine bay, or, most commonly, how many ponies they can eke out of every last drop of fuel. Take the Hennessey Venom F5 – 2,000 horsepower from a V8 just makes your head hurt, as I found out recently while blasting up th Goodwood Hill Climb in the passenger seat.
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