An ultra-rare Hennessey roadster is now up for auction and already going for $2 million, with the price likely to rise.
The fifth Venom F5 Roadster ever made is powered by a twin-turbocharged 6.6-liter V-8 engine making 1,817 horsepower, which runs through a seven-speed manual transmission with power sent to the rear wheels. Like most Hennessey productions, the Venom F5 Roadster has only a few things on its mind: overwhelming grunt, track performance, and carbon fiber. (The material is everywhere, from the monocoque to the removable roof to the steering yoke; the brakes, meanwhile, are carbon ceramic.)
This example, built in 2023, has just 681 miles on the odometer, so the next owner can choose to preserve its nearly new status, or actually drive it, with performance up to par with what it was when it left Hennessey Special Vehicles. The car is painted Banner Green, meaning it will stand out even more than it already does.

The Hennessey Venom F5 Roadster with its doors ajar.
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“Features include a removable exposed carbon-fiber roof panel, butterfly doors hosting pedestal-mounted side mirrors, a front splitter, a rear diffuser, a single-piece exposed carbon-fiber rear panel with milled vents, a tempered-glass engine cover, quad exhaust outlets, and an aluminum nose badge of eight microns in depth,” the Bring a Trailer listing reads.
If you were building a hypercar, that’s a list of features you’d probably put down as essentials, or at least desirables, since cars at this rank are judged against each other. In fact, that’s pretty much what happened.
“The Venom F5 is the only thing that we’ve ever built that was like a clean sheet of paper,” Hennessey founder John Hennessey told Robb Report in 2020. “We took everything that we knew and liked from the previous 29 years and tried to put the best of all of our know-how in the all-new car.”
A Hennessey Venom F5 Coupe was going for similar money last year, before being sold privately. The Venom F5 Roadster was said to be offered for $3 million new, so, for now, $2 million represents a bit of a discount, though the auction still has a week left to run.
Click here for more photos of the Hennessey Venom F5 Roadster.
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Erik Shilling
Erik Shilling is digital auto editor at Robb Report. Before joining the magazine, he was an editor at Jalopnik, Atlas Obscura, and the New York Post, and a staff writer at several newspapers before…



