Just a week after Saleen released information and images of its upcoming Mustang-based S302 mega pony car, Hennessey Performance has dropped into our laps renderings and information on its sinister HPE700 Mustang. (Coincidence? We think not.) And as usual with a Hennessey product, it is absolutely drunk on power.
How much power? Thanks to a Roots supercharger—Hennessey’s anabolic steroid of choice—as well as upgrades to the throttle body, fuel injectors, fuel pump, and exhaust system, Hennessey claims to wring 717 horsepower at 6600 rpm and 632 lb-ft of torque at 4400 rpm from the 2015 Ford Mustang‘s Coyote V-8. This enables the car to hit 60 mph in 3.6 seconds and pass the quarter-mile mark in 11.2 seconds at 131 mph, by Hennessey’s measurements. Saleen’s S302, for what it’s worth, comes in with a maximum of 640 hp and 565 lb-ft of torque in supercharged form. Ah, let the new Mustang tuner wars begin!
The HPE700’s exterior gets the requisite smattering of badges and can be upgraded with a full raft of carbon-fiber addenda, including a lip spoiler, side sills, and a traylike splitter that juts out several inches from the chin and probably makes even the gentlest driveway slope a tough negotiation. Hennessey also offers to stuff the wheel wells with Michelin Pilot Super Sport 2 rubber wrapped around 20-inch Hennessey H10 wheels, and a Brembo brake package is available. Suspension upgrades are under development and “may include a trip to the ’Ring at some point,” according to company founder and president John Hennessey.
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Other than the addition of some custom floor mats and a dash plaque, the HPE700 Stang seems to go light on the interior upgrades. That’s just fine by us, since the standard Mustang GT interior is pretty nice out of the box. Hennessey is asking $59,500 for the HPE700—which includes a base Mustang GT and a three-year/36,000-mile warranty. The price rises with any of the aforementioned upgrades. The first examples are expected to make it into customer hands during the second quarter of 2015. Hennessey says it plans to build only 500 copies—mixed between coupe and convertible models, per customer request—for the 2015 Mustang model year.
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