This one-off, 2,031bhp, manual Venom is the most powerful and expensive F5 ever built

Hennessey has revealed a shiny new customer car designed and built by its new in-house customer commissions division. Call sign, ‘Maverick’.

And ‘Maverick’ has created a one-off Venom F5 Revolution called the ‘LF’, resplendent in ‘River Sand’ metallic paint over ‘Coco Brown’ carbon fibre. Oh, and there’s a gated six-speed manual gearbox bolted in and much more power, making this a proper one-off (and proper scary) Venom F5.

Indeed, Hennessey said this car – built for an American chap called Louis Florey – is the most expensive, most complex and highest spec Venom F5 ever built.

As you can see, it’s based off the roadster iteration of Hennessey’s F5 Revolution, which in turn is geared more for track performance. And this one previews a number of bits from the upcoming Venom F5 ‘Evolution’.

Bits like a new front splitter, reshaped dive planes, new louvres, a new rear deck with an integrated lip spoiler, and a “significantly taller” rear wing. There’s new suspension, and the not so small matter of a power hike.

So where previously the F5 Revolution’s 6.6-litre twin-turbo churned out 1,817bhp, it now produces 2,031bhp. For the sake of clarity, 2,031bhp is rather a lot of horsepower to be marshalling yourself via the gated manual.

That being said, this one-off Venom F5 LF offers a more “positive” environment in which to exploit those new muscles. The car debuts an upgraded carbon monocoque, which is stiffer, and offers better seating ergonomics, more footwell space, a new centre console milled from solid aluminium, and new switchgear.

You can of course take your F5 back to Hennessey to get it bespokerised by Maverick, and upgraded to Evo spec, while all future F5s will be built with 2,031bhp and better aero from the start. Time to buzz the tower.