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Rob
10-06-2016, 8:24am
Hennessey VelociRaptor 6x6 is a $295,000 extreme machine | Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2016/10/05/hennessey-velociraptor-6x6-is-295000-extreme-machine.html)



The upcoming Ford F-150 Raptor is set to be the most extreme factory-made pickup ever created.

It has a 450 hp turbocharged engine, over a foot of wheel travel, and a 4x4 system that’s just as good at flying through the desert as it is crawling over rocks. But what if it were 50 percent more extreme?

Hennessey Performance has answered that question with the VelociRaptor 6x6, which features a stretched bed and a second, lockable Raptor axle added to the rear.

The modified suspension incorporates the high performance Fox shocks from the stock Raptor, and the truck gets a mean set of bumpers, unique 20-inch wheels, and a light bar with searchlight-sized LEDs mounted to it.

The price for the VelociRaptor is an appropriately extreme $295,000 -- just a small markup over a Raptor SuperCrew’s $52,505 base. Being the power broker that it is, Hennessey also offers a turbo, exhaust, and intercooler upgrade for the Raptor’s 3.5-liter twin-turbocharged V6 that boosts it to 600 hp for an extra $22,500.

Coincidentally, the grand total of $317,500 is almost exactly the same as six regular Raptors, but the VelociRaptor is sure to get six times more attention anywhere it goes.

And it looks like it can go just about anywhere.

CubSmurf
10-06-2016, 8:35am
Seems like a nice guy! :ducks:

m and t's77
10-06-2016, 8:39am
Rather have the M-B product instead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrUVMdkb4_k

DAB
10-06-2016, 9:15am
I hear he's good at cashing checks.

snide
10-06-2016, 9:39am
I hear he's good at cashing checks.

Good at bouncing them too.

RedLS1GTO
10-06-2016, 9:54am
I really just want to know who out there is still dumb enough to hand this guy a few hundred thousand dollars and hope that he actually produces what was paid for...

DAB
10-06-2016, 9:58am
I really just want to know who out there is still dumb enough to hand this guy a few hundred thousand dollars and hope that he actually produces what was paid for...

bunch of rich arabs?

6spdC6
10-06-2016, 10:01am
AH,Hennessey

I trust that SOB as much as I trust obunghole or the bitch hillary.

Giving money or leaving a vechicle with him for work is like taking a big bunch of loose money way up in a airplane and scattering it to the winds, then landing and hoping to find more than you threw out.

jh225
10-06-2016, 10:11am
He has to get money to payback all those he ripped off somehow, doesn't he?

Burro (He/Haw)
10-06-2016, 10:43am
but the VelociRaptor is sure to get six times more attention anywhere it goes
And where would that be? The grocery store?

Ol Timer
10-06-2016, 2:48pm
Hmmm, I wonder if he's limiting to one per customer?

NeedSpeed
10-06-2016, 3:32pm
http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/auto/2016/10/05/hennessey-velociraptor-6x6-is-295000-extreme-machine/_jcr_content/par/featured-media/media-0.img.jpg/876/493/1475697122474.jpg?ve=1&tl=1

syf350
10-06-2016, 3:32pm
fugly

RedLS1GTO
10-06-2016, 3:50pm
So just to clarify, for a few hundred thousand dollars Hennessey takes your new Raptor and modifies it to make it incapable of doing any of the things that actually make the Raptor a cool truck.

Ummmm... yea. OK then.

Seriously, who in the hell looks at a Raptor and thinks... "Yep! needs more wheels..." :skep:

...of course this is assuming that he doesn't just keep your money and part out the truck.

WalkerInTN
10-06-2016, 4:34pm
$295,000 will buy a pair of Raptors (stock & modded) & an awful lot of hookers & blow. :island14:

snide
10-06-2016, 4:36pm
http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/auto/2016/10/05/hennessey-velociraptor-6x6-is-295000-extreme-machine/_jcr_content/par/featured-media/media-0.img.jpg/876/493/1475697122474.jpg?ve=1&tl=1

Yep, I need that to go to the mall to get my nails done. :yesnod:

vetteman9368
10-09-2016, 11:51pm
An answer to the question no one asked

wicked_c6
10-10-2016, 3:42pm
Damn internet nutswingers!

CORVETTE
12-16-2016, 2:25pm
Damn internet nutswingers!

:iagree:

Ex-Employees Say Hennessey Is A Bigger Mess Than You Ever Imagined (http://jalopnik.com/ex-employees-say-hennessey-is-a-bigger-mess-than-you-ev-1778134112)

Stangkiller
12-16-2016, 3:05pm
Damn internet nutswingers!

Hey I resemble that remark!

boracayjohnny
12-16-2016, 4:19pm
What I find amazing, Hennessey is still around. A simple internet search gets plenty of results for complaints. But I also know the PT Barnum statement is still around too.

CORVETTE
12-20-2016, 3:27pm
What I find amazing, Hennessey is still around. A simple internet search gets plenty of results for complaints. But I also know the PT Barnum statement is still around too.

Over on one of the other boards, a Camaro one, I think, much of what I had asked about last year came out as reports. Anyways, he closed California operations, lost his money man, and the "track" is up for sale. Rumor has it he owes 7 figures to just one person, and potentially has other creditors, too.

The Jalopnik story was interesting, and timely. :shots: