Hennessey Performance delivered the first customer Venom F5-M to a UK buyer and ran the car up the Goodwood hillclimb during Festival of Speed 2026. The Venom F5-M is the manual-transmission version of the F5 hypercar. Hennessey announced the first customer car in a press release dated July 6, 2026, with the UK debut following at Goodwood on July 9-12.
The spec
- Engine: 6.6-litre "Fury" twin-turbo V8, 2,031 hp
- Transmission: gated 6-speed manual, RWD
- Chassis: carbon monocoque, dry weight approximately 1,360 kg
- Production: part of the 30-unit Venom F5-M run announced in 2024
- Delivery: first UK customer car, July 2026
The Fury V8 is the same block Hennessey put in the automatic F5 and the F5 Revolution track car. What is new in the M is the gearbox. Building a 6-speed manual that survives 2,031 hp is a non-trivial engineering problem, and Hennessey partnered with a European transmission specialist (the company has not named the supplier publicly) to develop a purpose-built gated H-pattern shifter with an integrated clutch strong enough to handle the torque.
Why "world's most powerful manual" is doing real work
The last time a headline claim like that landed on a production hypercar was the Gemera and the Jesko Absolut era for Koenigsegg, and both those cars run seven-speed multi-clutch automated boxes with paddles. The F5-M is a proper three-pedal, gated-linkage manual. The comparable production hypercars with real H-pattern boxes cap out well below 2,031 hp:
- Pagani Huayra 70 Derecho: 864 hp, 7-speed manual
- Pagani Utopia: 864 hp, 7-speed manual
- De Tomaso P72: 690 hp, 6-speed manual
The Venom F5-M is more than double the power of any of those with the same transmission architecture. Whether a human being can actually drive a 2,031 hp hypercar via a clutch pedal is the interesting question, and Hennessey has been running the launch procedure at their Sealy, Texas test track for two years to validate exactly that.
The customer angle
The UK delivery is the interesting business detail. Hennessey builds the F5 in Texas. Exporting a hypercar to the UK involves a homologation path that most small-volume American manufacturers do not attempt. That Hennessey has now done it, and delivered a manual variant to the customer who wanted a manual variant, is what a scaling small-volume manufacturer looks like.
See where the F5-M lands among today's hypercar field on our fastest cars list.
The basics
| Hennessey Venom F5-M | |
|---|---|
| Debut (first customer car) | Goodwood Festival of Speed, July 9-12, 2026 |
| Press release | July 6, 2026 |
| Engine | 6.6L "Fury" twin-turbo V8 |
| Power | 2,031 hp |
| Transmission | 6-speed gated manual, RWD |
| Total production run | 30 units |
| First delivery | UK customer |
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Sources: Hennessey Performance press release, July 6, 2026; Goodwood 2026 preview and coverage (CarBuzz); coverage from Motor1 and GlobeNewswire. Photography: Hennessey Performance.